BlueFalcon said:
This is 100% wrong. No experienced PC gamer does this. What you describe is actually the opposite of PC enthusiast gaming philosophy -- that's what noobs or people who don't understand PC gaming do. |
Fair points.
How much have you spent out of pocket over the past 10 years for your gaming PC?
An individual may have replaced their Xbox 360 if it had the RRoD, however there was a 3 year warranty for that and Microsoft also extended the standard warranty to 1 year. So if a replaced console broke within the year, it was replaced.
There are a lot of people however that still have their original or initial replaced console.
There is a benefit to purchasing higher end equipement, and that is very much the fact that game requirements change. I don't disagree that you can have a good gaming PC at a lower cost, and I ever said you'll get better performance (resolution, FPS, or fidelity) from a console. I said the games you buy on day one, as well as those you buy 10 years later will work just the same.
The specs I offered weren't as far over the top as you would like to assume. Only the latter configuration was significantly over the top in terms of gaming needs and simply because I wanted to get my post done. However, the two other configurations were reasonable gaming PCs and the prices were fair. Even if we dropped the prices by $1000 each, the prices would still be significantly more than the cost of a PS2 & PS3 (Gen 7 & Gen8) or an Xbox & Xbox 360. There is no way the P4 as configured could have met the recommended specs for Crysis. It would have been short memory, and you ran the possibility that the in 2007 you might not have been able to find a compatible video card depending on if it was PCI, or AGP. Not to mention, unless it was actually a workstation motherboard, you wouldn't have any hint of dual cores. So you're pretty muched forced to upgrade the system. Could the price have been reduced by purchasing upgrade components, such as the motherboard, memory, HDD controller, video card, etc? Yes. It doesn't change the fact that a Core Duo processor would have been expensive, as well as the memory, and as well as the GPU. Worse, that time frame out, you wouldn't have gotten much at all for your P4 and or memory.
Could you do a i5 for $500. Sure, but you're still three PCs out. Even if you upgrade, the amount of money you would have gotten for the previous systems memory, CPU, GPU, etc would have been a pittance.
Please, show me the numbers that prove that PC gaming is less expensive and a better value over a 10 year period. I beg you! Prove me wrong, since you obviously know more than I do. I will GLADLY capitulate to anyone who can prove to me that PC gaming is less expensive and a better value over a 10 year period. Just do the math and show me the numbers.
