4 Ways Consoles Make PC Gaming Better

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PC gaming has long been pitted against console gaming, with advocates on both sides insisting their choice is better than the opposite. In truth, this is all personal preference, but there are a number of ways console gaming actually supports PC gaming and makes it better for everyone.



4 Consoles make it easier to develop games for the PC

Due to architectural similarities, developing for consoles makes porting easier

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The days when consoles used strange architectures are long gone. Modern consoles are x86-based machines, and modern Xbox consoles share many similarities with Windows under the hood. For this reason, games designed for consoles tend to be easier to port to PC, which has already been demonstrated thanks to the Insomniac Games leak.

This leak allowed developers to access a build of wolverine is currently being created for the PlayStation 5. Nevertheless, within a few days this build was changed and was able to run on PC. Not very good, mind you, but good enough to show how similar consoles are to PCs these days. As consoles rapidly improve and become more closely aligned with PCs in terms of hardware, developers will be able to more easily port these games to PC in the future.


This also means that games that are ported will be easier to optimize as the architecture is very similar. Unlike games that may have been developed for consoles such as the PlayStation 3, which may still be difficult to emulate due to that console's architecture, games developed for newer consoles tend to be much easier to port.

3 Shared game libraries

Game streaming services allow you to access games on your PC and console

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With Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Premium, you can also enjoy many of these games on your PC. There's Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, but Xbox Game Pass Ultimate combines the two and gives you a subscription to tons of games on both devices.


The same goes for PlayStation Plus Premium, where your subscription can be used on both your PlayStation and your PC. To use it on PC, you need to download the PlayStation app. You can then stream Sony games and play them on your PC as if it were a console. It's not a particularly sophisticated service in this regard, and you won't be able to play PlayStation 5 games on your PC, but you can still benefit from it thanks to cross-development.

2 Hardware innovation in consoles

Gamers are getting used to faster loading times and more

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Due to improvements in consoles such as the introduction of DLSS, SSD storage and more, gamers are becoming accustomed to higher quality games that utilize newer hardware. A good example of this can be seen in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartwhere the developers used DirectStorage to improve loading times. DirectStorage loads files directly from your storage to your GPU instead of going through the CPU first.


These technology innovations, which in turn make their way to consoles, then improve things for games made for consoles and mean that PC gamers benefit. Sure, the PC brought them first, but consoles arguably brought with them the need to use them.

1 Controller improvements

Many games run better with a controller

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As an FPS enthusiast who mainly games Counter Strike 2 And ValorantI'm happy to admit that a controller is better for gaming much of instances. While many esports titles work better with a mouse and keyboard, the vast majority of PC games benefit from a controller. As controllers on consoles get better, games tend to support them, meaning PC gamers will have a better gaming experience even if they use a console controller with their PC.


There are countless games that benefit from a controller on PC, including: Ratchet & Clank To Spider-Man Across a range of driving games, these controller improvements are important to many PC gamers. Plus, a controller is simply one of the best peripherals you can get for your PC. So if you don't have one yet, it's definitely worth buying.

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