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g911turbo on 29 June 2013
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dahuman said:

g911turbo said:
 

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.

pffft way late to the PC gaming party there :P I started during the years of Duke Nukem and Wolf3D lol. Of course there were the Apple II, the NES, and so on, but once I went PC, I never left it and I still prefer DOS to this day because there is not a lot of overhead compared to running on top of Windows, you just load your drivers in autoexec and config and you were done, ease of dev fucked the efficiency of PC gaming and it's going to fuck consoles sooner or later as well. I was so happy when I got the AWE32 too, DOOM series sounded fucking awesome lol..... Anyhow, I'm a console gamer as well, though I gave up on 360 and will give up on One and PS4 due to P2PO charges until PS4 has a high number of SP JRPGs, gonna stick to my Wii U and 3DS until then and enjoy the good games on PS3 since they'll prolly support it a few more years anyhow.

LOL.  ME TOO!  Maybe we are BOTH showing our age haha.  "mein leben!"  I remember so many games from commander keen, to pitfall.

My brother and I used to have the DISK DRIVE Atari and the disk drive Amiga!  Yikes.

I don't really know why I stopped PC gaming (which is what I meant really) in early 2000s... I think the friends I used to game with moved away, went to grad school etc.  That and I started my first job out of college in 2004.  Never too late to come back I suppose, and my brother wants me to pick it back up actually.