| Conina said: 1. Why suddenly that $400 budget limit in a discussion if keeping an PC up-to-date has to be complicated nowadays? To automatically exclude your option 2? 2. Most PC gamers buy pre-installed complete PCs, and it has never been so easy to keep them updated than now. 5 or 10 years ago you had to invest much more time... auto-updates weren't a thing, you had to search for drivers and game patches yourself. I know, when you read in computer forums, you get the impression that every PC gamers builds his own rig... but these are a small but very vocal minority. 3. And talking about budget... with $400 and a TV you are still lacking the games for the new console. If you want to play (and keep) 1 new game for $60 each month, you are already at $1120 ($400 + 12 x $60)... PC-versions of the same multiplatform games are much cheaper so a $700 PC + 12 games à $40 is in the same area: $1180. That's only the first year, in the second year (again 12 games) the total investment is already in favour of the PC. 4. If you want to play 2 or 3 games a month, the higher investment of a solid gaming PC amortizes even faster. |
Ok now you are reaching and twisting stuff to suit your argument. I don't know how else to put it.
- That $400 budget isn't sudden. Its the cost of a PS4 right now. And anyone buying a new platform to play games will have to consider that he can get a game playing machine for as little as $250- $400. This discussion is based on a neutral going into the market. Not a continuing PC gamer looking to update. Thats a totally different scenario. You are talking about updating a PC. I am talking about starting from scratch cause that is what any console gamer does. Start from scratch. The only people looking to upgrade are people that are already gaming on PCs to begin with.
- Exactly, pre-installed complete PCs. So if that is the case then the $400 budget still stands. Cause that as I said originally is one of the biggest advantages of consoles. Price:performance. And no, you can not buy a prebuilt complete PC for the price of a PS4 that will match the PS4 in performance. And by performance I am not just talking about transistors or teraflops. I am talking about the fact that in the console spavce every game made for it will be optimized. So you will need more power in a machine than the PS4 base specs to run a game at PS4 settings. And you said, only a small minority actually go out and build rigs.
- This total investment talk is irrelevant. We aren't talking about the long term cost benefits of owning a console vs PC cause you can't predict a users gaming habits. What of the user buy used games. What if he and a friend shares games and then only buy one half of those 12 games. And no one goes into "BUYING A NEW PLATFORM" saying...hey I would spend $200 less over a year if i go with the PC. thats just forum talk. In the real world, what determine what the average joe does is how much disposable cash is at hand. And for that average joe.... a PS4 at $400 will sound a lot better than a PC at $700.
- Again, you are derailing this argument. Everything you have said doesn't negate the disadvantages with PC gaming. All you are doing is arguing why those disadvantages are acceptable from a Pc gamer perspective. That is not what this thread is about. This thread isn't about which platform is better or worse. All I am doing is talking about the things that should be considered when looking at all platforms at the point of entry. Add to teh fact that the genral public average joe doesn't even buy up to 12 new games per year. They could buy at most 4-5 new games per year and those games are usually COD/madden/nba2k...etc. and get the rest of his games used or make the odd "this may be interesting" purchase.
