Launch it from your Steam library, however, and you'll see what we meant when we said consoles held The Witcher 3 back from achieving its full potential. Pop The Witcher 3 disc into ye olde faithful Xbox One, and you may be completely lost as to why anyone would ever consider this one of the most graphically impressive games of the generation. They have more content, they have better controls, they have mods, they have user-generated content, hell, they even have hats.Īnd we've listed the top PC offerings here, for your perusing pleasure. A case in point is that none of the current flagship consoles can handle 4K, or even 2K the Xbox One can't even manage 1080p half the time.īut there are some game franchises which, irrespective of the console's accessibility and the PC's grunt power, are just better on PC. Then it all calms down and within a year a new PC is more powerful than them again. The marketing blather between the big companies ramps up to a degree that you believe that these machines can resurrect the dead and simulate walking on water to an unparalleled degree.

It's the same every console cycle – the new consoles come out and, for a time, there's a glory period where they at least seem more powerful than the average games PC or Mac.