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Final-Fan said:
I'm certainly NOT trying to say that every game will suddenly have Crysis' system requirements, but if there's a game like that NOW then I think it's absolutely fair to think that most games five years from now will have comparable requirements, unless you show me counterexamples or other evidence to the contrary.

Honestly I think you are looking at my argument and thinking I'm saying something else based on other less reasonable opinions you have run into. Am I wrong?

If you have to upgrade the GPU, then that adds $150 or so to your price every 2-3 years (or $80-100 every year and a half) and suddenly it's not as cheap an investment as the console was which is my whole point.

Well, perhaps I am.  I in general completely agree with this statemetn, that without a GPU upgrade, you cannot pay the same price as a console and run the same games for the same amount of time.

That said, if you add in $50 a year for Xbox Live gold, you're not really paying any more.