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Anyhow, I own both the 360 and PS3 and love playing with friend on them, but the Halo games are the only FPS' I've given more than a few moments on consoles as far as MP is concerned. For me there are a few reasons.
The most important thing is that there is no real sense of communities on consoles. Unless you have a bunch of friends who you play with and are interested and able to share gaming time with you in the same game, you just keep on jumping from a random game full of random people to the next. On the other hand, I already know a good number of people in TF2 for example, even though I only started playing it a couple of months ago, because I can always join the same server, with partly the same people there. There's a social aspect to MP, even in shooters, or at least there should be, imo.
The second part is tech, meaning the graphics, the controls and the voice com. Graphics are typically better, I prefer the mouse for aiming for obvious reasons. And the fact that people are using kb+m also shows in the quality of game. The quality of game is also supported by the formed communities. As far as voice com goes, a quality mic+skype/mumble quite literally beats the shit out of going "uhhm... what?" on Live, or "uhhm.. have a mic?" on PSN.
And finally there's the people. This is kind of an advantage to PC gaming not being as popular, I'm sure that if PC had the "pull" of the consoles at the moment, it would be just as bad, but at the moment the amount of complete assholes, screaming kids and other annoying beings is low compared to that what I see when I MP on the consoles. It's just a huge plus for a guy like me, who comes home from work and starts up a game to have some fun and throw a few jokes with some decent guys. All it takes is one annoying retard to fuck that up for me.
There's no better gaming fun than having a few friends over, firing up the console and having a hoot with some team game. But as far as sitting home alone, wanting to do some MP, I just don't see the "couch advantage" as something that comes even close to outweighing what the PC has to offer in comparison.
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