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IllegalPaladin on 03 September 2008
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Geldorn said:
thetonestarr said:
What the hell are you talking about? That PC he listed is quite a bit more powerful than any of the gaming consoles, and it vastly outperforms all three of them as well. How on earth can it "lag in capabilities"?

If you're going to hate, at least have the facts straight. Seriously, you're only proving that you're subjectively biased against PC gamers.

Anyhow, you'll never find a gaming PC with blu-ray that costs less than the PS3, & that's because PCs are always designed to do a LOT more than consoles. You're paying more for a mess of extra features. It's foolish to think you'll find one that costs less. Until the PS3 does everything a PC does, you can't expect anything otherwise.

 

I do have my facts straight. That PC misses Windows (which 99.9% of gamers use). A full Windows license will cost most people around $100. To top it of, it has no Blu-Ray drive. It therefore it lags in capability because it misses hardware.

Just because you can download HD movies, of significantly lower quality than Blu-Ray movies, doesn't change any of that. Besides, the PS3 and Xbox 360 can also download HD movies last time I checked.

See, I do know that PC is more powerful. That was not my point. Heck, I have (and am very happy with) a gaming PC myself.

My point is that these comparisoms are always lopsided - Windows is suddenly free or 'not used', Blu-Ray becomes irrelevant 'because I can download' (like the consoles) and all consoles suddenly cost $500+ in order to win. The truth is that a complete $399 PC, with Blu-Ray drive and the Windows license, would not compete with the $399 PS3 in specs. Nor would a $299 PC with a valid Windows license be able to compete with the Xbox 360.

And all this without mentioning that console games are (with one or two exceptions worlwide a year) plug and play over the course of the entire generation. Whereas for lots of people (witness all those tech-support forums) PC games are more like plug-and-pray, or just plainly need an upgrade every year or so to keep up with minimum specs.

 

Couldn't people reuse their windows disks or use their current hard drives with Windows already on it? You could also perhaps find deals on it, such as if someone was a student as mentioned above.

Also, I'm not sure why you're pushing Blu-ray on the PC. It's pretty darn expensive considering that DVD readers and burners for around $20-30 (glanced quickly at newegg) and I'm not sure if it's even worth it yet for general PC use until Blu-ray drives get MUCH cheaper (though 25+ gigs of storage is certainly interesting). There's the whole point of listing a cheap PC build to counter people saying that gaming PC's cost $5,000 and you're fixated on a Blu-ray drive.