| mrstickball said: Crazy people. Stupid people. Why spend $2,000 on a gaming PC that has litterally no other use outside of games, when your getting the same or better experience (in some cases) on a X360? |
Hi.
I personally bought a gaming PC base unit for about £800, one and a half years ago rather than a £250'ish X360. Everyone had different tastes in gaming and different amounts of disposable income, but I'll try to put across my motivations as best as possible.
1. My first reason was that some of my favorite genres (RTS, space sim) are not on any other format, in any great number. I have to buy a PC to play them.
2. I prefer the keyboard and mouse for FPS games and several other types.
3. It's cheaper (for me)
The third one seems a bit unintuitive because the initial cost is so high for a pc and you have buy a new graphics card and maybe more ram every 2 years or so to keep it up to date, but I'll explain where I save money. If I buy the orange box for my PC rather than my PS3 for example I save £13 (assuming I bought it from amazon) I normally buy 2 or 3 games every month and I find I save at least £10 by getting a PC game rather than a console one. This builds up to a 400-500 saving over the course of a year.
I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm just trying to explain my own reasoning for choosing a PC over an X360.
Jaded
