vlad321 said:
HappySqurriel said:
vlad321 said:
HappySqurriel said:
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When you say life to you mean in terms of length or in terms of ability? Because you can have both for those amounts of money. Of coruse comparable to a console it means that you will not be playing all the games on max. For instance, the 360 and the PS3 would not be able to handle SC2 on max, but you will be able to run them at comparable graphics.
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The whole point of having an up to date PC system is to be able to play any games released for the PC; my current gaming system can play games on a similar level as the HD consoles, but it can’t handle the upcoming games I desire to play. If you can’t play the games you want to play on your current PC you can not say that it is still a viable gaming platform.
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So let me get this straight, you are complaining because you would have to pay more to get a better experience? With your $500 any game that comes out on the consoles and the PC you will be able to play, end of story. On lower settings you will also be able to play games that the consoles will never run, but not on max settings. So you want to be able to play games which consistently blow the console games out of the water technologically, for 5 years on consistent tech?
I am sorry but you may have to make yourself a little more clear because from what I am undestanding you are being extremely EXTREMELY unreasonable.
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No, my original point was that PCs have advantages but they have disadvantages as well; and cost is one of the core disadvantages of playing games on your PC, because you need to spend a lot of money up front or regularly spend money to upgrade your system. The retort to this point was that a gaming PC was cheap and that you could buy a viable gaming PC for $400, and spending $1,500 was no longer necessary to own a gaming PC.
Buying a gaming console for $250 to $500 will ensure that any game that is released for that console (even 5 or 6 years later) will still run on the hardware; spending $500 on a PC will ensure that in a couple of years games will be released that you simply can not play.
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Yes but the $400 or $500 will play any game that is multiplatform until the end of the console's life. So in the end you get the same bang for the buck, plus whatever technically superior games egt released on the PC which you can play because they are scaled down. I mean yeah, I once bought a PC for $600 and that only lasted me 4 years or so until I was reduced to playing all games on minimum, but I was still able to play them. Also as stated before, there are many many savings. As I said you could have saved over $450 dolalrs if you had bought the Square Eniz/Eidos bundle from steam.
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If you were to buy a system that was comparable in results to the XBox 360 at launch, and were to build using the best performance per dollar components, you would have ended up with something similar to my Athlon X2 3800 with a Geforce 7800 which cost (roughly) $1,500 ... a few years later you could build this system for $500
