PC vs PlayStation 5: Which Should You Consider in 2025?

Today, I am going to talk about whether you should buy a PlayStation or do PC gaming. Both are best, but both have their advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of Playstation 5 (Pros of Console)

First of all, let's look at the advantages of buying PlayStation; if you buy it, then you get exclusive games that are not available on PC, like God of War, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West etc. Many games are exclusively available for PlayStation.

So if you want to play these games, then you will have to buy a PlayStation because, unfortunately, you cannot play them on a PC.

Easy of Use

Like:

• You don't have to install any setup
• You don't have to extract any files
• You don't have to get into the hassle of cracks
• Sometimes it happens on the PC that due to antivirus, some important file of the game gets corrupted or removed, and then the game doesn't run.

We don't have to face anything like this. Plug in, install the game and start playing and that's it.

So if you are not a professional and just want to play for fun or say you don't want any hassle and you just want to do pure gaming, then you should buy a PlayStation or any other console.

Price

If we talk about price then it is more affordable, if you look at price to performance then the console is better because the console is available for fifty to fifty-five thousand rupees, if we talk about countries like the USA then it is 424 to 600 dollars depending on which variant you are buying, disk or digital.

Now, at this price point, you get everything like ray tracing, 4k, and everything runs smoothly.

If you want to do gaming on a computer, then it costs one lakh, two lakh rupees, I don't know how much, only then can you achieve that performance.

So if you compare the performance and quality, the gameplay experience is better on the console at less cost.

If the budget is less and you have to do only gaming then the console wins in this scenario.

Dual Sense Controller and Haptic Feedback

If we talk about controlling then the haptic feedback of their dual sense controller is amazing, if you play fighting games then it vibrates when you hit your opponent or if you are in a shooting game and when you shoot when required then the controller shows its magic gives a great feeling that it feels like we are gaming in real.

This is not the case with computers, though this is a very debatable topic because you can attach a lot of vibration controllers to your computer as well, but the fun that comes in a console cannot be experienced in a computer with haptic feedback.

Disadvantages of Playstation 5 (Cons of Console)

You cannot do much customization in it; you cannot modify the games according to your needs; and you cannot install any extra mods, but this can be done on a computer.

You cannot do much customization in it; you cannot modify the games according to your needs; and you cannot install any extra mods, but this can be done on a computer.

Expensive Games

You know how expensive console games are, whereas PC games are much more affordable than that, even though there is no need to buy games, fitgirl repack, Pirate Bay, just understand.

Backward Compatibility

All the games that were made before PlayStation 4 cannot be played on the new-gen PlayStation, which means if you try to run a PS1 or PS2 game on PS5, it will not run.

But what is there in a computer is that you can play any game of any era on it.

You can even pick up the world's first video game that was made for a computer and run it on the latest Windows 11.

But the issue of backward compatibility with PlayStation always remains, this is one of its cons.

Pros of PC Gaming

You can build your computer according to your budget. If you want, you can build it for forty thousand rupees. You can install any part according to your requirements and can do gaming according to your requirements. It is not necessary that you have to play only high-quality games.

A computer can be built for just twenty thousand rupees. You can do basic gaming in it. I would say that on this budget computer, you can play up to GTA 5, which is an open-world game and is still new. People are playing it for fun.

This means that you have control over the budget but it is not so in the console. You will have to pay as much as its price. On the computer, you can manage with less money.

Versatile Use

Hey, a computer is not just for playing games. If you have bought an expensive gaming computer, then it is not only for gaming, you can do video editing, graphic design, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and office work, meaning endless possibilities.

If you invest a little more in building a computer than a console, then it will not only give you a great gaming experience but will also help you with other heavy tasks. This is a big plus point because it can be used in every field.

Mostly the gaming computers that come are very powerful, so it means that even the heaviest tasks can be done on it.

Gaming Library

There are so many games for computers that you will grow old playing them but the games will not end.

Do you know how many lakhs of games are released each year?

The gaming library is very big.

But in the case of consoles, it is limited because not all the games need to be available for PlayStation or Xbox but there is a very big library on the computer, so play with fun.

Upgradeability and Long-Term Investment

If you build a very expensive computer, then sometimes it outperforms the console too because no matter how expensive a graphics card you install, how expensive RAM you install, or how expensive a processor you install, the performance that comes out of it in 4K or ray tracing will beat your console.

But in this case, the hardware of the console is fixed; it cannot be changed, but on the computer, you can add some extras as per your requirement.

Backward compatibility is always available, no matter how many mods you install on the computer. Do you remember when GTA India, GTA Gadar, GTA Punjab, and GTA Amritsar were released? You won't believe that these were all modded versions of GTA San Andreas or GTA Vice City.

There CJ was made Punjabi. Indian vehicles, Indian characters, Indian stuff, etc., were added to the game. It was so much fun to play them.

Do you know how much GTA 5 is played? On YouTube, people create content by applying different types of mods in it.

What do Indian streamers do in the game? They bring Indian cars, celebrate Indian festivals like Holi and Diwali, take the graphics to the top level and much more. If I start telling you it will be night till morning, but the discussion will not end, so we will discuss it some other time.

Now tell me where is the fun of mods in PlayStation?

So this is also a plus point of a computer.

Cons of PC

Higher initial investment: You will have to pay more money at the start itself. If you want to build a good computer, and if you want performance like PlayStation, then you will have to pay more money.

Complexity and Maintenance

Computer gaming is complex. Sometimes such issues arise which can be fixed only if you know about computers.

With PlayStation, it is a case of plug and play, but in the case of the computer, you will have to take care of many things like Windows updates, driver updates, game settings, antivirus, DirectX installation, window corruption fixes etc.

Portability Issues

Portability is also a thing; if you have a PlayStation, your friend is inviting you to his house; come here, we will play games; friends are bastards, so you can easily carry your PlayStation or Xbox and reach there on time.

But how will you carry the computer, they are not small, especially the gaming ones, just think about it.

So the computer is not portable at all, if you have to shift the computer from one place to another, then the whole day is wasted in all this.

Conclusion

Look, if you want to play exclusive games, don't want much hassle, want to do pure gaming, enjoy haptic feedback and want the best gaming experience in Rs 50-55 thousand, then go with a console.

But if, apart from gaming, you also want to do video editing, photo editing, office work, animations, coding or modding, etc. and want to have an upgradeable option, then go with PC.

PlayStation will become outdated after some time, but if the computer becomes outdated, then it can be upgraded by installing new parts, and even if the computer is old, the new games that are coming can also be run in it somehow.

Your computer is more valid than a PlayStation because even if it is an old generation, it will still run, you can install new games in it; you can run them in low quality, but they will run.

But this does not happen with PlayStation; now, if I have PlayStation 4 or PS2, if I run PS5 games in it, do you think they will run? A BIG NO.

Apart from this, if you are a bit of a geek and can do customization, then you should go for a computer because you will be able to perform a lot of tasks. It depends on what you want from gaming; you can choose according to your needs. I have told you the advantages and disadvantages of both.