Gaming PC for the price of a console, that outperforms a console :)

[HappySqurriel]

BenKenobi88 said:

The people who buy Alienware or high-end gaming rigs from places like Dell or HP are the ones who think gaming rigs have to cost more than $2000.

Or the ones who think it's impossible to build a PC.

Or, if that's a valid excuse and you really don't want to build one, just pay a friend $500 to build a $900 PC for you (seriously, that's a lot of money to give a friend), and you'll STILL come out paying much less than you would for an equivalent Alienware and such.

For laptops it's understandable though.

Yeah, if you want a laptop that can play new games at decent setting you should expect to pay for it, and companies like Dell and Alienware are no worse than most ...

In 5 years I expect this to change though because (with the majority of new computers sold being laptops) I suspect that publishers are going to want most games to run on a 2 year old $500 Laptop.