Fun Topic. Which are better for Gaming? PC's or Consoles?

[Kantor]

noname2200 said:

Kantor said:

Five hours on multiple discs, exactly. MGS4 was all on one disc. Altogether, the installs took maybe 25 minutes.

Now look at PS3 install sizes. MGS4, DMC4, RE5, BioShock are 5GB apiece. These are considered unreasonable large installs.

When was the last time a high-budget PC game had under a 5GB install?

As an aside, how many gaming PCs are capped at a measly 20GB?

Anyhow I'd suggest looking into a new PC, since even big PC games (like Medieval II, at 11 gigs) installed in just over five minutes for me, and my PC is only good, not great. Also, the "constant need for hardware upgrades" thing is a complete myth. I haven't changed a thing in my PC since the 8800 GT came out (that was around the start of the current console generation), and there's nothing on the horizon that's prompting me to upgrade anytime soon. Before that, I hadn't upgraded my PC in five years (i.e. another full console generation), and while I admit things got rough in the last year, I could still play damn near everything fairly well.

yo_john117 said:

You've obviously never played a FPS on a console before.  So whats so skillfull about point and clicking?

 Seriously dude? Seriously?

Hardly anyone owns a 20GB PS3. Sony cancelled it because it sold something like 1/10 of the sales of the 60GB. The 40GB is the smallest common PS3 hard drive, and I agree that it's a bit small. But a PS3 hard drive is easily upgradeable. And you don't need to upgrade anything else.

You say the 8800GT came out around 2006. How much did it cost? It's probably already been topped. How long before it becomes obsolete? I can tell you, it will be before 2016.

Just getting started on PC gaming is so expensive, and on top of that, you have to upgrade hardware every few years...it's just too much of a headache for me. I don't like KB+M controls for the majority of genres (if you do, good for you), I don't like tiny monitors or gaming hunched over in a chair, and yes, I can use a controller, and connect it to an HDTV, but then it's basically a console.

I'm happy enough with console gaming.