CONSOLEs vs PC

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HollyGamer said:

you summed up and agree :D, compared to PS3 and Xbox 360 how many games can be played from 2007 until 2013 on GTX8800?

Look how many games on PC 2007 onward some games require some upgrade here and there to run, even small upgrade, for examples games like Call of Duty Ghost, Wolf stain, Splinter cell and etc.

Yup you need money to buy good parts on PC and time and effort to search in Internet, asking some friend, and knowledge so no one able to fool you.

like i said different type of people who played on console and PC, and thus comparing them directly is a bit silly and comparing the hardware is even more stupid.

The principle is more like PC (General PC) is more of like Swiss army knife and console is more of cooking knife, but dedicated gaming PC is more of the expensive Swiss army knife with the capability and also flexibility but the price also far exceeding both knife.

If you wan't to get technical... I never bought into the Geforce 8xxx series, it's nVidia. ;)

However... If we were to for instance take my 6-7 year old PC with it's Core 2 Quad, 8Gb of DDR2... It's not going to be setting anyones world on fire in the performance stakes.

However, fast forward multiple years, I dropped a Radeon 6570 into it for $30.
Suddenly I am able to play pretty much all console multi-platforms just fine again, even today I am throwing games at it like Defense Grid 2 and Battlefield 4 at high at 720P/30fps without a problem, obviously the Core 2 Quad is heavily overclocked and I didn't leave the low-profile Radeon 6570 clocks un-touched either.
But for $30? Can you really argue with that? Considering you can pick up a Core 2 Quad from recyclers now essentially for free...

To put that into perspective... That is less than the price of a console controller.
If I wanted to push for higher resolutions, then bumping that $30 graphics card to a $200 Radeon R9 270 would be the better idea (Or a Second hand Radeon 7850/7870 for about $100 AUD), then you could push for 1080P in the majority of titles, Mantle would help massively for a low-end rig like this.

Upgrading a PC is pretty darn easy, AMD even made a video of a monkey doing it, websites like toms hardware, guru3D and Anandtech can give you a good idea of what to get with their "Best cards" at various price points.
If you don't feel confident doing it yourself, any reputable computer store is usually more than happy to do it for you.

However, this isn't the norm, but you do have the choice and choice is never a bad thing.