Steam vs Playstation

[Z1MZUM]

I've never used steam, The pc to me has been almost %100 piracy and emulation for the last 20 years so no achievements for me. I mean I was bought up with a c64 and then an Amiga (Julian Assange era), the culture of going to meetings and swapping disks every weekend paved the future of pc gaming for me. Yes I'm a bad person and why bother answering the way I have? Well if you want to save money and like the games then go for it with steam. The Ps4 is a winner for me with the exclusives tbh. In neither case would the trophies or achievements factor change my mind.

Edited March 22, 2018 by Z1MZUM

[Fing3rButt3r3]

On 3/19/2018 at 5:18 AM, Borsuk_2 said:

Overall now when im older i need something more to justify time spend on gaming and trophy/achivement system fit the bill. I started on Xbox but Sony have better exclusives. Still i would like to play PC/Xbox exclusives too, but i just waiting when they appear on PS.

 

? I thought you are older now...you would realize spending time gaming for trophy/achievements isnt worth it...or are you competitive and want to see yourself high on the leaderboards? because you could easily hack every playstation game for trophys. If trophy is your thing...

At the end of the day, play the games you enjoy!! I have a hard time gaming myself on Steam or PC. Just my PC is super badass and I do all sorts of things on it, so I nevvvver ever really just play a game. I alllllways end up doing something else. But a gaming console..well, its all it does when you sit there using it. It can only play games..yes yes Ps4 has browser and can watch movies etc but the UI sucks, so you just...play games..?

[Borsuk_2]

Yeah, i browser web mostly on PC, I use PS4/PS3 to watch Youtube though... i wish PS4 UI suported mouse...
Anyway, i feel now that playing game without somekind of external checklist to prove it that i done it and to compare it with something/someone is waste of time...
Trophies give me good illusion of that. 
In 2004 i made a list of all time games i wanted/must to play - circa 1989 to now.... i finished it (started play recent games only) around 3 years ago so it finished 24 years worth of gaming in 11 years.. i forced myslef to did in in chronological order cuz i knew that i wouldnt have a patience now to play all that retro games... but i didnt know about my "addiction" to trophies (i dont know if is stricly addiction, i play switch games and i can just fill my time with other things like watching movies or reading books)
I was only PC gamer then, console games were played on emulators. In 2008 i bought my first console that i brought from trip to Canada - PSP and from there DC, PS2, XBOX, GC, DS, X360, 3DS, Wii, WiiU, PS Vita and finally PS3, PS4 and Switch

Edited March 23, 2018 by Borsuk_2

[Lorajet]

I gave up on PC gaming when my PC setup couldn't keep up with the new requirements for RAM, graphics, processor, HD, etc etc etc.  I mean, I tried! But each new game needed something upgraded, and I finally gave up.  I'm happy with the console.  Only upgrade for this one was a HD.  I did look at Steam but decided to just stick with one platform.

[Mcbeanstr]

I'm trying to do both but as for trophy/achievement hunting I need to get back into that

[Doomsdayman]

Is this Steam vs Playstation Store or PC vs Playstation, because Steam is a distribution system.

 

I prefer Steam since it's cheaper and my library is bigger.

[Joe56780]

Steam is more customisable, cheaper, digital only. Arguably more flexible support (I had to remind a sony rep of their own rules to get a refund on a game I bought but didn't download once)

 

Ps3/4 is far less customisable (no name change), more expensive (dependant on what games you buy), less games. Fear of older consoles no longer being supported.

 

But consoles have the big advantage where I don't get too distracted by internet browsing to play games, unlike when I'm on my pc .  I like the time tracking on steam too.

 

[Terra]

I like Steam for the older games I can play it. I mainly only use it for Renegade X and Star Wars Battlefront II (2005). Odd enough, I could care less for achievements on Steam. I don't know, maybe it's because their isn't an awesome website like this to track them. Similarly, if their was an alternate version of this for the Xbox, I would be back into achievement hunting. I did some of it last year but TrueAchievements just wasn't doing it for me. 

[Galactic Hyper Balls]

I like both, I get exclusive games on steam and ones I want to trophy hunt and enjoy on Playstation.

the steam achievements are nuts, fuck those 100% Fo reallzzz looking at you JAMESTOWN.

 

 

[Darling Baphomet]

You can't really call Steam cheaper than Playstation. Steam is a digital exclusive platform, which means it's only cheap during sales. And since digital games almost never lower in price, you *have* to wait for sales or else you pay ridiculous amounts.

 

Whereas with PS4 you have the option of buying physical, which in my experience is at least 10-15$ cheaper than Steam (at least with most 6 month to 1 year old games). I've seen games on sale on Steam that are the exact same price (or more expensive) than the same game on PS4 sold physical. Which isn't even counting the fact that used games / store-specific discounts allow you to get even more savings.

 

Plus PS4 sales are pretty close to Steam in terms of quality, they just don't tend to have as many options on sale at any one time. 

[Yrva]

9 hours ago, regularegg said:

You can't really call Steam cheaper than Playstation. Steam is a digital exclusive platform, which means it's only cheap during sales. And since digital games almost never lower in price, you *have* to wait for sales or else you pay ridiculous amounts.

 

Whereas with PS4 you have the option of buying physical, which in my experience is at least 10-15$ cheaper than Steam (at least with most 6 month to 1 year old games). I've seen games on sale on Steam that are the exact same price (or more expensive) than the same game on PS4 sold physical. Which isn't even counting the fact that used games / store-specific discounts allow you to get even more savings.

 

Plus PS4 sales are pretty close to Steam in terms of quality, they just don't tend to have as many options on sale at any one time. 

I second this! Steam seems like it is really convenient and by far the most cost efficient place to buy games, but it is very situational on Steam most of the time, having to wait for sales unless you want to pay full price. Plus Steam is a lot of "quantity over quality" nowadays in terms of actual products they have, unfortunately.

[ReljaGamer]

There are programs which allow to unlock achievement with one click.. With that being said it's not "competetive" and fun. Also other Trainers, not official 3rd party websites to follow progress is not that good overall.

[NutellaOrgies]

I can't game on PC, the only PC games I managed to play and get addicted to are usually only MMO's like The Sims Online when I was younger, Rift for abiut a year and World of Warcraft for the longest time (none of which are steam games)

 

The only reason I don't like steam is because I enjoy porn too much and eventually get a virus that messes up my whole computer, so I don't want to feel rushed when having to fix or buy a new one just because I accidentally clicked a link on a porn site. 

[Borsuk_2]

On 23.03.2018 at 6:23 PM, Doomsdayman said:

Is this Steam vs Playstation Store or PC vs Playstation, because Steam is a distribution system.

 

I prefer Steam since it's cheaper and my library is bigger.

It's about Ecosystem. Meta gaming.

On 23.03.2018 at 11:47 PM, Joe56780 said:

I like the time tracking on steam too.

 

Yes I very miss that on ps. I realu like that on wiiu.

On 24.03.2018 at 0:28 AM, Terra said:

I like Steam for the older games I can play it. I mainly only use it for Renegade X and Star Wars Battlefront II (2005). Odd enough, I could care less for achievements on Steam. I don't know, maybe it's because their isn't an awesome website like this to track them. Similarly, if their was an alternate version of this for the Xbox, I would be back into achievement hunting. I did some of it last year but TrueAchievements just wasn't doing it for me. 

I have similar feelings. I hope ps5 will be the same as xbox one x - better with bc.

[Lillia]

Consoles. It's more comfortable and more fun in my opinion. 

I do like PC gaming but tbh It's all about multiplayer these days. And since I usually prefer single player games I go with consoles. 

After I bought The Witcher 3 on Steam, I kinda regretted not buying it for the PS4. 

 But Steam isn't so bad, I do like buying old PC games I used to play in my childhood  

[RadiantFlamberge]

One thing PS4 needs to copy from Steam is the progress gauges on individual trophies. It shouldn't be too hard for Sony to add.

[ReverzerO-]

They say steam is better than psn when it comes of buying games and crediting an account in our country(not sure) they can use virtual credit card/app that can be downloaded from google play store, load it from nearest convenient store then convert it to steam credit! No need for credit card or paypal or go to game store and buy psn gift card(very limited) depends on region. Also, I think nintendo has this option too!

[Deluziion90]

I wish I wasn't an elitist pc asshole years upon years who bashed console players and said steam ruled the world. PSN is much and much better. Trophy system is better, Games are better, well almost everything..

 

Graphics: I've bought a bunch of games I had on PC too platinum them and compared them next to each other and could barely see the difference in many games when it came to graphics. Compared on a pc with high end stuff vs a 55" TV with 4K and HDR on a PS4 Pro

 

Achievements: As someone mentioned before you could just download software and use 1 click and unlock everything 100%. You've also got games where you unlock thousands of achievements in seconds. A great example is a game where you bump into a bear and unlock 50 achievements everytime you bump into it... Source: https://steamed.kotaku.com/achievement-spam-games-are-causing-controversy-on-steam-1796528445 This was the part where I looked into exclusives on ps4 and found my way into playstation. Wish I did years ago :/

 

Prices: Humblebundle, Weird sites, name it.. I think PC wins in this.

 

All in all It's opinion based I guess. As a completionist I just feel sad that I didn't buy a PS3 years ago and started with that but real happy to joined PSN and this website it's absolutely everything I want from gaming ?

 

 

 

[NaRayquaza]

I am a console peasant and I will always be.

Steam has indeed better prices (and resellers like G2A), but the hardware cost way more, and they also have to fight with piracy, so they can't do whatever they want. I mean, is there a human who don't know how to crack a game? I don't think so. Plus, it doesn't even mean that what you buy will run properly on your system, since performance result may vary from settings to settings, I've experienced it first hand. Of course if you spend 2 or 3k on a PC with a GTX 1080 everything will run (lolno, The Sims 3 and FFXIII).

 

In my case the good things about PCs are: modding, easy undub and free multiplayer. Why should I pay PS Plus to play once every two week on Overwatch? I'm not into competetive nor co-op games, I just play randomly in training mode against CPU. And why I am forced to listen to voices I don't even care when you can easily mod your game and make it sound however you want? I don't consider graphics a plus, I don't even have a mega-PC that lets me enjoy a game at 240 fps in 4K with every armpit hair at Ultra quality.

 

About achievements idk honestly, I can't get into them either lol.

 

TL;DR: It's just a matter of what you really care. High fps, mods, exclusives, sales.

 

On 6/5/2018 at 2:10 AM, Kurofur said:

After I bought The Witcher 3 on Steam, I kinda regretted not buying it for the PS4.

I regret buying it too, it was disappointing.

[Firmamente]

I have a level 100 Steam account and now I'm here.

Steam has really good community but it's not a good choice if you are into trophies. 

People unlock achievements with SAM...making achievements meaning nothing. 

 

[Cassylvania]

Some of my favorite games are PC exclusives -- and mods are FANTASTIC -- but I grew up with console games. I want my butt on the couch and a controller in my hand. Anything else just feels wrong.

 

Trophies have always just been icing on the cake for me. It gives me something to do beyond just play a game, and it's a nice way to tie all of your games together.

[Kaiwan]

I'd choose Playstation over Steam because of trophies

[Dreakon13]

On 5/9/2018 at 7:07 PM, NaRayquaza said:

Plus, it doesn't even mean that what you buy will run properly on your system, since performance result may vary from settings to settings, I've experienced it first hand. Of course if you spend 2 or 3k on a PC with a GTX 1080 everything will run (lolno, The Sims 3 and FFXIII).

 

This is something that is frequently overlooked and I'm glad someone else pointed it out.  The people who claim a gaming PC can be built for <$500 cherry pick benchmarks from either high performing lower quality games that'd run well on a toaster (Rocket League) or from very well-built higher quality games that run "good enough" on a toaster (The Witcher 3) to prove it can work, and leave out the myriad of games that suffer from any assortment of performance related issues that even high end PC's may struggle with (games that scale poorly, poor optimization/bad ports, hardware incompatibilities, etc).  It's extremely deceptive the way people advertise cheap PC gaming, and folks who buy into it... if they don't immediately regret it, they will in a year or two when their budget parts get even more outdated and 4 out of 5 new releases run worse on their "brand new PC" than their console brethren.

 

In my experience, having both built a PC in the past and considered building one again recently... from scratch you're looking at $1k to $1.5k to build a mid-to-high end gaming PC without cutting too many corners.  And while that $1-1.5k build may seem excessive and far outperform consoles initially, that's the kind of PC you need if you want it to survive a full 7+ year console generation in the volatile PC market (if you're lucky).

 

EDIT: My mid-to-high end PC I built back in 2012 lasted me until about 2016 before I was struggling to get console-level quality (resolution/framerate) in new releases.  It wasn't worth investing another $400-500 after just 4 years for a new graphics card, additional RAM, etc to keep up with the Joneses, so I went all in with the consoles... but in contrast with what I just said, I'd even say 7+ years on a $1k PC is VERY generous and unlikely IMO, but it depends on what kind of standards you want to maintain.

Edited May 12, 2018 by Dreakon13

[LadyFinesse95]

Easy guess. It's Playstation of course  

[Venocide]

I switched to Steam achievement hunting when I got my new PC 2 years ago, I think I lasted a month before I switch back to PlaySation. The games maybe cheaper on Steam and they have better sales but at the end of the day all that money you saved on cheap games is going towards new upgrades for your PC.