Giving PS4 and Xbox One a run for their money

[SvennoJ]

RazorDragon said:

SvennoJ said:
Still missing
- Shipping costs
- OS
- KB + Mouse
- HDMI cable

Anyway you're proving the point that consoles at launch are very much worth their price point. No hassle, neat little box under the tv ready to go for the next 6 to 10 years. On par or better then what you can buy for the same money in components.

Other disadvantages of PC:
- Can't trade in games
- Games not optimized for a default controller
- Games not optimized for tv (small fonts, overscan area used)
- Even less focus on local multiplayer / splitscreen
- Need plenty of bandwidth to play the big releases

It's nice to have both though. PC for indies, console for blockbusters suits me best. (damn bandwidth cap, still have Dead space 3 and Crysis 2 to download from the Origin bundle)

Most of what you said isn't realistic.

PS4/Xbox One will also have shipping costs, depending on where you live or how you're going to buy it.

About the OS, Linux is free and the gaming library is growing every day thanks to Steam support(it's already bigger than PS4/Xbox One).

You're right about the KB+Mouse and the HDMI cable, but I'm quite sure everyone has a few of these somewhere, except if you never had a desktop PC or any current device that uses HDMI connections.

About trading, it's possible, if you buy physical discs and depending if the game box says online activation isn't needed(there are many games released without the need for it). Every PC game is supposed to be optimized for KB+Mouse, every racing game works with 3rd party racing wheels natively and almost every current game(since 2006, I believe) has native support for the 360 controller, and you can easily map your controls natively in most games so it also supports 3rd party controllers(and even Wii Remotes, depending on the game). You're right about the other stuff you said, altough overscan can be easily worked out via the GPU control panel.

Most of what you said is far from convenient. Installing Linux and living with limited game  support, using KB+Mouse on the couch, hard to find physical pc games in stores, configuring controls and getting incorrect button prompts, fixing overscan and small font issues.
My point is that for less money you get all the convenience of picking up a console and games in a store and it all works directly after plugging it in to your tv. How is all you suggest giving ps4 and xbox one a run for their money.