What if consoles were updated once or twice a year, would you still buy?

[Zlejedi]

Joelcool7 said:

Squilliam said:

I hear the PS3 is quite popular and that system gets 12 updates in a year at least.

You know I was refering to hardware updates. I'm not an idiot Wii , 360 and PS3 all recieve software updates. But that is not what the thread is about. Its about hardware updates. Needing to buy a new graphics chip or new model every year or so. Would you be willing to buy a new console every year? or a graphics card upgrade so you could play the latest games? Or would this turn you off console gaming?

Zlejedi said

There's one flaw in your comparision - you don't need to have latest CPU/GPU to play new games on PC

 

Yes but you do need the latest graphics card and video card. I upgraded mine constantly. Eventually I found in some cases it was cheaper to just buy a whole new tower. This cost hundreds of dollars where as a console cost a few hundred and lasts 5-years. But what if you needed to buy the latest graphics upgrade for your X-Box 360, or a whole new model to play the latest games. Would you be fine with constantly upgrading your console?

GPU= graphics processing unit= video card

CPU= central processing unit= processor

And no you don't need new ones constantly ever since current gen started - 2 year old GTX 260 won't have any problems pushing Mass Effect 2/New Vegas to maximum details full hd @ 60 fps and will likely last few more years.

Also if you remember Oblivion was game killing computers and needing $ 300 graphics cards when it was released and at that time it looked better on X360. Now noone would consider it demanding game on pc and even cheap computer can run it fine. At the same time it runs on X360 exactly like it did 4 years ago and no matter what you do it won't ever look better and same can be said about other console games they will only have evolutionary improvements over previous titles.

In the meantime pc games started to look "a bit" better:

Oblivion X360:

Witcher 1 PC from end of 2007

Witcher 2 PC (for reelase in 2011):