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nightsurge on 10 December 2009
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shio said:
nightsurge said:
shio said:
When it's more expensive to play on a console than on a PC, you know something is wrong.

Let me know when that happens, would you? 

Even my PC to maintain detail level of 360 games and including monitor, keyboard, gaming mouse, etc. cost a minimum of $700 when I built it last year.  To keep up with the games, I have upgraded it to an HD4890 and more hard drive space and bought a larger monitor.  Total cost of the PC is now well over $1000.

You are full of crap. You can build a PC for $400 that will eat Xbox 360 for breakfast in terms of graphics. Here's what's wrong with what you said:

Goodluck on the average person knowing where to buy the parts and how to put them together for under $400.  Also, that would be impossible unless you did some extreme bargain hunting and forum lurking.  $100 for 4GB of ram (ddr2 800 with good timings.  maybe $75 if you go a bit lower quality), $110+ for monitor, $80-100 for a good dual core cpu, $50 for HDD, $50-80 for mobo, $30-40 for a decent case with at least 2 fans, $40-50 for a good 500w psu, $90 for a basic GPU to get high settings on a 19" monitor.  Sooo... $560 minimum entry fee....

- You include the cost of the monitor...uuuuh, why? That's like including the cost of the HDTV in your Xbox 360 costs.

Because you HAVE to have a monitor.  Unless you want to hook it up to your living room TV which most people do not want... plus then you have keyboard and mouse cables or have to buy a wireless setup which costs more and performs worse.

- You don't need to upgrade to match the graphics of the Xbox 360 (depending on your former GPU). Many of the recent Xbox 360 games are barely above the low settings of it's PC counterparts. GTA IV, for example, the graphics of the xbox 360 version are around the low settings of the PC version (confirmed by rockstar itself).

This is bull.  I have CoD4 on both systems.  Both look almost identical on max settings for the PC version.  Only thing different is the PC has better AA/AF.  You have to be running at least medium settings on most modern games for them to look as good as their console counterpart.

- PC games are cheaper. Why are you only comparing the cost of the hardware but not of the software? Just last week you could've bought Mirror's Edge on PC for less than $5, Mass Effect for less than $5, L4D for less than $5, SF4 for less than $20, and god knows how many more games on PC. On average you will probably save almost $20 for each game you buy on PC instead on Xbox 360.

- You forget the cost of the online. It's free and better on PC, while on Xbox 360 you have to pay $50 yearly (or less if you can get a deal). That means you are looking to spend hundreds of dollars just so you can play online.

And the most popular game on PC is $15 a month to play... you have to pay for the experiences you want.  On PC you pay per game (if that game requires a charge), while on XBL it is a flat fee of $50 (or $30-40 in my case) for an entire year which also gives you the community features accross all games, party chat, a huge on demand selection, etc.  It's like renting a set top box for just $50 a year plus it provides all those smooth and well integrated features.

Another thing, the gaming experience is SUPERIOR ON PC.  This is ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE AND OPINION.  Especially when so many games, drivers, etc. have issues that ruin the experience, but on consoles it just works right out of the box and updates/patches are pain free.