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bouzane on 02 November 2014
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Intrinsic said:
bouzane said:
No offense but the console fanboyism is getting kind of sad and pathetic. I spent about $700 on my PC about a year ago and its performance is in step with the PS4 and XBOne. I buy my AAA games for $5 (or less) and that includes titles like Elder Scrolls, Portal, Bioshock, The Witcher, etc... Additionally, I don't have to spend a dime to play online. I may spend more on PC hardware but as a whole the experience is actually cheaper and frankly it's better too. I buy consoles for exclusive games because I can see no reason why I would buy multiplatform games for them (with a few exceptions of course). Consoles are neither cheaper nor significantly more convenient and if it weren't for exclusive content I wouldn't even bother with them anymore.


Hmmm... so you read my OP. And this thread. And the conclusion you have come to is that this about console fanboyism? 

Ok.

Everything els eyou said also leads me to believe that like everyone here that somehow felt the need to defend the PC, you have no idea what I am talking about. No one is attacking PCs here. And all that talk about buying your games for $5 and not having to pay for online....again has nothing to do with this thread. 

You did say something though that ties into what I am saying. You said you spent around $700 on your PC a year ago. But I will live it at that cause I have explained the point of this thread too many times. Its funny that its primarily the PC centric gamers that just seem to not get the point of the thread. I will give credit to some though, they have somehow managed to remain objective while simply stating their preferences.


How about I put it this way. I have to buy a PC regardless of whether or not I am going to play games on it because there are no other devices with the capabilities of my PC. The only additional cost to make a decent gaming rig is the video card which added about $300 for my system, less than the cost of either game console. As far as performance goes, my PC is clearly superior to the XBOne and comperable / slightly superior to the PS4. The initial investment is the only major cost for PC gaming and no matter how much you try to downplay it you can not change the fact that I save money with PC gaming. Finally, not to offend but if you can't figure out how to pick out a handful of components and have a website like NCIX, Tigerdirect or Newegg build, test and ship a tower to your house there is something wrong with you, it really isn't very complicated. If it was complicated, you can always get somebody like myself to do it for you because frankly, I can put together a PC in mere minutes so it's really not an inconvinience. Finally, now that consoles have firmware updates, installations and pathces the "convinience" of console gaming isn't significant as far as I can tell. I had zero difficulty setting up my PC and haven't had any issues whatsoever.