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I can see it that way if using mods, games not available on console, etc.
Other than that I don't see much sense in building a budget PC when a console gives so much more.
Personally, I go all out when it comes to PC, imo, that's the point of PC gaming.
I want a good gaming mouse with plenty of buttons, a quality mechanical KB that I can configure / program, a GPU that can run new games at max settings, lots of RAM, latest gen CPU, a large monitor and so on.
I play my games on Android tablet, rarely - phone too.
(Never owned/had any consoles.)
"Average" settings wouldn't be average, if they weren't acceptable to some/many people. :)
Whereas I'm happy with a ~1k rig; I'm not bothered by framerates, so I'll play at 30-60fps;
- I've always used 1080p at a desk, so my 27" monitor seems quite large;
- don't see the point in overspending on GPUs, so I generally go for "previous-gen, lower-middle-range" when I buy a new one every 4 years. Doing this, only my most recent one (6650xt) cost more than $200. And that's been enough to do High settings in most current games.
- I use an $8 two-button+wheel mouse (the one time I used a mouse with shoulder buttons, I was constantly misclicking them, so I physically disabled them. Can't imagine using a 'gaming' mouse with a dozen buttons on the side. Ick.)
- And I use the Apple A1048 keyboards that I've happily used with all my computers for two decades :) (when one of mine starting finally failing, I stocked up on several extra refurbished ones from eBay for like $10 each. Gonna use those keyboards until USB is no longer a thing.)
But as you say - to each their own. :D
(for me, the point of PC gaming is being able to fiddle with stuff. Tweak your hardware, tweak your drivers, mess with .ini files, play with mods. . . Console is for when you just want to plug in & go.)
That all started to shift though in the past decade or so, for me anyway. I personally found myself playing on PC more and more and console less and less. At some point I had stopped subscribing to PS+ because it stopped being worth it to me anymore. The transition for me was mostly complete when I realized our PS4 spent way more time playing Blu Rays and watching Netflix than actually playing games, and our Switch was gathering dust.
I've had a PC and played games on it for most of my life, but it was always secondary to a console. I think the Steam Deck was kind of the final nail in the coffin for console gaming for me. It gave me that console kind of convenience, but on a PC. Even my wife who was always a very Nintendo-focused handheld gamer since the day I met her. She tried my Steam Deck one day and just never put it down. I had to buy myself another one since that one was hers now. Her Switch Lite was collecting dust until she ended up selling it to a friend to give to a kid as a present.
I also had a personal revelation when looking at Nintendo's online subscription service. They offer a selection of old games you can play as long as you remain subscribed, and they slowly trickle more games out. The original Zelda for the NES is on there, and I thought about how many times in my life I've actually purchased that game. Thinking back, there was the NES, Gameboy Advance, Wii virtual console, 3ds virtual console, and the NES classic edition. That's 5 separate purchases for the same game, and if I want to play it on my Switch I have to pay a recurring subscription fee just to effectively rent access. Then there's my past Nintendo purchases. I can't play any of my old Nintendo library on my Switch. If I'm lucky, they have a re-release or remaster I can buy again, and that's only if I'm lucky. Then when they release a new console later on, there's no guarantee my current purchases will still be playable. Backwards compatibility is never a guarantee, and Nintendo has no issue with shutting down the servers of their legacy systems when they're done with them.
Meanwhile on PC, I can still play decades old games on modern systems, and they're still in my library. 20 years ago I bought Half Life 2, and I can happily play it on my Steam Deck today. I fully expect in another 20 years I'll still be able to install and play it on whatever modern PC I'll have from all my retirement money. That's like if you could still install and play your Gamecube games on your Switch. It's unthinkable. I realized how temporary your console game library is. It was a bit more permanent with physical copies, but those are on the way out, and the ones I do have are reliant on decades old hardware that's not being made and not supported anymore. Even today many of them are incomplete on the disc, requiring patches, or worse they just act as verification while the actual game downloads.
I'm still glad consoles exist though, just not for me. PC still requires just a little bit more work, knowledge, and patience compared to consoles. That's not a problem at all for me, in fact I enjoy it, but I can see where that could be a stumbling block for some people. For them, consoles will be there. For me though, I can safely say PC has entirely displaced consoles.
You raise an excellent point there.
I tend to look at the Nintendo Online thing as a bit like a book club. It cycles content which makes you focus on the "recommended read" that month. That's fun in itself.
Personally though I have no interest in that as I play on the original consoles as I keep everything.
But that does indeed raise a point I'd overlooked. For me, it's always been a no-brainer. I buy what I want and never sell anything because I'm weird like that - I have confidence in what I buy , research well and don't make mistakes like that.
Plus, I repair stuff. Part of the fun for me sometimes is keeping electronics running.
But I'd overlooked the fact that that's a ME thing. Not all people can do this. So I can see that it must be a pain in the arse to have all those older games and have no method of access thanks to consoles going wrong.
At least with a lot of the modern resissues and FPGA systems, that does seem to be getting addressed more.
I've also tended to go for picking up spare consoles or repair parts when they're cheap too. I tend to have about 3 of my favourite console.
I'm sort of there too. You should see my retro setup. I have a shelf with an NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, and Wii. They're all restored and maintained by yours truly. I have them hooked up through a switch box to an absolutely massive chonker of a 38" Sony Trinitron CRT television circa 1999 that weighs over 300#. More consoles are stacked up in a closet in case I need parts.
Once I had this setup though, I just sort of have it, and sometimes I wish it wasn't taking up that corner of my house. They say you never want something more than before you have it, and once I put it together the way I wanted I just sort of went, "Huh. Now what?"
Lol, that is so much like my setup by the side of my bed - the only difference being I use it all the time.
I get you though - it's dead easy to go after things and enjoy the ride, but once you're at the destination it all falls flat. I've spoken to a few people in the game collecting (and record collecting) world that have relentlessly collected everything by one group or platform and once they've got them they didn't enjoy it. I thinks that's a major reason why I've never bothered with buying games I don't want to play regardless of how many I get.
The only real changes I make to my setup are for laziness or convenience though. I really enjoy having them on hand, setup and ready especially if I'm having a bad day and don't want to mess with digging something out.
The point of pc gaming is to play games on pc. That's all. Going "all out" is not the point of it nor required, that's just what some people make of it.
I have a logitech mouse, but that's just convenience in general and not gaming specific.
I've never done it differently. But I also always say that graphics and such settings are *not* a primary concern for me. Something people have a hard time believing, I think, but I don't care about that.
Same here.
More to the point, the "all out" apprioach is foolish.
It's only impressive the first time or so you try it out. You don't notice it after that. Because that's how the brain works.
First time I used my last amp I bought you can bet I played it LOUD, but of course I don't keep it that way even though it's pretty high end. Quality and relaxing are the primary things, so you want it COMFORTABLE.
As with gaming, I sit here with my laptop which can handle anything on a 32" TV sat a few feet away from me in 720p or 1080. I don't need more than that because I won't see it.
Some people get way too hung up on numbers.
I personally like more on PC, but because i dont need to be stuck with buying consoles from a specific brand if i want to play games with my profile, achievements, etc and the steam sales are much better than what you have in consoles. Also, i dont need to pay for stuff like playing online and i can just shift to another store if Steam becomes too bad, what isnt possible on console without buying another console from other brand. There is also the point that i dont need to worry if my older games will be playable on a newer console or not.
And on mods, i dont really like to play with mods, all of my games so far worked well without needing any mod. At worst, i had to mess with some graphic configurations or deal with a bit of bad optimization for PC or questionable UI choices for PC, but nothing that was really a big deal (V-Sync and frame rate are usually the responsibles for older games behaving weirdly, in my experience).
Im kinda curious of what are the problems that Kingdom Hearts have without mods.
(Oh, there is also the biggest point agains PC in relation to consoles, convenience, PCs usually are more complicated to do maintenance and if you use it only for gaming, there is always the chance that something on windows, a configuration or other unrelated program end up bugging out and giving you a headache)
To be fair, there is a lot of stuff to cheat achievements for consoles too, the difference is that for most of them you need to pay and consoles put a few more obstacles in place for this to be achieved. But i dont know how developed and acessible actual cheat engines are for the newer console generation.
But it really isnt too hard if you have at least a bit of knowledge on what you want to do or follow someone else guide, just less convenient.