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I STARTED MY GAMING career on consoles, specifically the PlayStation. When I was younger, PC gaming wasn’t really an option, as most of my friends either had a PlayStation or Xbox and it was a case of picking one or the other. It was more of a social divide than anything and choosing to game on a PC would mean that you missed out on a big part of my group’s social life. At that age, of course, it was more about hanging out with friends than the pure gaming experience and party chats were a great way of being social.

There were other issues, such as ease of use. PCs can take up a lot of space and are more complicated

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