Pemalite said:
trixiemafia86 said:
Zkuq said:
bananaking21 said:
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Not necessarily true. You have a PC, no? How much did it cost? Do you have any idea how much extra you would have had to pay for it to be gaming-capable? Yeah, probably not more than the price of a new console. And then there's the fact that online gaming is free on PC (with the exception of MMOs and such) and that PC games cost ~$10 less than console games.
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actually, it all depends on the price of the PC. My PC for instance is more expensive regardless of how cheap I buy games on steam and whatnot.
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You have to look at the long-term costs.
Lets break it all down.
Pay for online at $50 a year for 10 years. - $500.
Console itself. - $500
100 games at around $10 cheaper than the PC. - $1,000 (You can usually get them even cheaper than that, which brings that number up higher.)
3x Controllers. - $75
So, that's roughly at-least 2 grand.
Now, I know plenty of people who are still rocking with Core 2 Quads which launched at the start of the generation, albeit heavily overclocked to around 3.8ghz. - Throw in a couple of GPU upgrades over time and it will generally handle any game today just fine.
Then last week I built a "Gaming PC" for a mate of mine with an AMD FX 8320, 8Gb of ram, Radeon 7870 Ghz Edition all for $700 AUD. (Minus Monitor as it's being used on a TV.)
The CPU will clock to around 4.5-4.8ghz easy when the need arises, but I don't see it needing an entire rebuild anytime soon, the console CPU's are incredibly underpowered, so over the course of this next generation it will probably just be a new GPU every few years and maybe another 8Gb of ram.
PC gaming really *isn't* that much more expensive than consoles. If anything it's probably the other way around!
Sure you pay more for hardware, but everything else is cheaper or free, more DLC on the PC is free, free online... Even allot of free games.
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A pc rig won't keep up for 10 years as well so goodluck with that. Also there's a difference with paying a huge ammount of money in one go than paying in terms. The latter is more manageable as you don't splurge your money right away.
So no... PC is still more expensive to build not to mention researching individual good parts which is quite a hassle for general consumers.
But really nothing really beats PC in performance. You just need to be stinking rich to keep up with it.
