| cunger said: The wrong assumption that this makes is that you're a person who has never owned a pc before and currently does not own one. I already have a pc to do work on and I also use it for gaming. Ram is super cheap so i have 22 gigs and i have a decent quad quore cpu which rivals/beats next gen consoles cpus. This is all stuff I'd want even if I never played a game on this rig. The only expense for me and many others whom have interest in PC gaming is the cost of a newer better gpu. The one I have right now and purchased for 300 bucks a year ago already beats Xbone and is similar to the PS4. Your average pc gamer doesn't think about the cost of building a machine from scratch. Right now I would calculate that i can still get $175 for my old graphics card so the choice is either 500 dollars or 400 dollars for a next gen machine or a 575 to 675 dollar gpu. If power is every thing PC would blow these consoles out of the water. You don't go with a next gen console because of price per spec you do it because you enjoy the console experience better than the PC experience. BTW.. I have pre-ordered a PS4 and greatly anticipate it but by no means do i think that my decisions is based on math it's based on the emotional things that consoles do better. They are simple, they have one dedicated store and friends list unlike the increasing frangmented pc stores. Every game has trophies.. ect ect. I just think it's childish to try and justify consoles a logical left brained decisions based on price per spec. |
I used to game on PC. Early 2000s - I had a Radeon 9800 pro (showing my age maybe). Since then I have used laptops for work and consoles. So I would need to build a tower from scratch, and I am a guy who used to PC game. Some people NEVER PC gamed.
That being said, I get where you are coming from if you're already in the mix. Apples to apples, its hard to deny that consoles are PRICED aggressively. Especially when you realize that sometimes these companies take a LOSS on the hardware they sell.
That and you don't need to BUILD something. I don't have to go to newegg for RAM, Amazon for this, Microcenter for a case, here for a power supply, yadda yadda. I but 1 item and done. So it's easy to see the convenience draw of consoles too.
