Video Games Persuasive Speech

Would you rather have a machine that you can go without buying anything for a decade? Then you don’t want a console. Personal Computers, better known as PC’s, are what most people call “the master race of gaming”. They’re called this because they are the best modern device you can use for video gaming. People believe this because you can save a lot of money, and you can also play games without noticing any screen tears. Consoles claim to be better than PC’s, but they’re practically the same thing. The only difference is PC’s you have options to the comfortability of a controller, or the accuracy of a mouse. You can even change the performance your system outputs for better gameplay.
One thing that most people think why consoles are better

than PC’s are the price. At first glance, a one thousand dollar computer obviously costs more than a four hundred dollar console, right?

Not exactly. In the long run, the PC will be costing you much less then paying for a console. This is because you can replace parts in PC’s when you cannot do the same with consoles. PCWorld states that “you could easily stick to a budget build with as-needed upgrades and be totally fine for a long, long time, especially if your goal is only to stay ahead of consoles. Stagger them and you'll end up spending the same or less than if you bought a new console every three or four years.” Let me remind you that Sony and Microsoft both have released two different consoles in the last three years, not mentioning the PS4 Slim, costing you a minimum of seven hundred and fifty. Meanwhile, according to PCWorld’s Hayden Dingman “the PC is admittedly more expensive up front, but your upgrade path later is markedly easier. If you're a budget gamer, you can probably run the same processor for up to six years, and the same graphics card for four to five years. Case? RAM? Power

supply? Fans? Hard drives? All surprisingly cheap stuff you'll carry in perpetuity, build to build, replacing only when absolutely necessary.” I’m not saying that console gamers have to buy a new console whenever it’s released. I’m saying that Microsoft and Sony claimed that the Playstation 4 and Xbox One would last you a decade. So if you just bought a piece of hardware for five hundred dollars, you’d at least expect it to be the best system you could get for at least a decade or so. Then come two years later, there are better versions of the system costing an additional hundred. In conclusion, with being able to replace parts in a PC and not in consoles, you save a great chunk of money.
(A bit of a forewarning before you read the
second body paragraph, this talks a lot about PC specifications
and console specs such as how a PS4 Pro has 2.1 gigahertz.
Just know that the more numbers you have, the better.)
I think it is unfair to compare the difference in graphics and performance between consoles and PC’s, but I’m doing it anyway.

On console, there is a lot of really good looking games due to Microsoft’s and Sony’s 1.75GHz AMD 8-core CPU APU. On PC, almost all the games have the potential to look beautiful. This is due to a CPU and GPU you could purchase. The CPU is a AMD 8-core FX-9590 that outputs 4.70GHz, and the GPU is a GeForce GTX 1080 Titan with 1.81GHz. You might be wondering,how come the consoles didn’t a GPU. This is because the CPU is an APU which means that the CPU is also a GPU, which limits what the consoles full potential is. PCWorld’s Brad Chacos says “On the flip side of the coin, you could drop a thousand dollars on your graphics card alone if you want eye candy that’s borderline life-like, or create a gloriously monstrous multi-monitor setup, or be slightly more reasonable and build a gaming PC that falls somewhere between the extremes. Single-monitor 2560x1440 gaming at 60fps is the current PC gaming sweet spot, in my opinion, though shooting-game fans sometimes aim for a 1080p monitor capable of 120Hz to 144Hz for faster reaction times—neither of which consoles are capable of.” PC out-performs consoles both performance and graphics. If you’re wondering if all this is true, then why don’t console gamers become PC gamers? Simple; this is due to a process that happens to most people called post purchase rationalism. Post purchase rationalism is when you buy

your first product you are stuck to believe that whatever company sold the product, then the product has to be the best of the best. It’s why most people like iPhone’s more than Androids or vise versa. In conclusion, there is only so much that consoles can output. You could overclock your console to be instead outputting 2.3GHz.or even 2.5GHz with the right amount of cooling, but this is the maximum a console could output. The maximum a PC can output is an outstanding 5.0GHz, doubled the amount of consoles.
Sure, PC’s performance is phenomenal, but you have to give consoles credit for making the controllers. There are a lot of games that need to be played with a controller. Some games wouldn’t have even been released if it weren’t for consoles. Then again, these controllers are optional on the PC; so you can either have the comfortability of a controller or the accuracy of a mouse and keyboard.
I admit, I was once much more fond of the console and thought that PC’s were just a minor thing in the gaming community. Then I put research into it and bought a PC. The evidence provided in my essay was from PCWorld. I don’t believe this is biased due to the fact that if you read the articles thoroughly, you can find that the authors were once consoles gamers. The evidence also provides the specifications of both consoles and PC’s showing that PC’s are better.