| sc94597 said: The OP made the point that we must compare a $350-$400 PC with a console. My point is that a pc does more than a console and therefore will cost more. Having said that a $400 PC can be built that does everything a console does and the extra things a PC does. So even within your fault framework such an argument doesn't hold. |
And this is the nonsense (sorry, just getting really frustrated) that Pc gamers keep bringing into this argumnet. What else you can or can't do with a PC has nothing to do with playing a game or not playing a game on a PC. That has no bearing on this discussion at all.
If someone has only $500-$700 to spend on a device. And his primary reason for wanting to buy this device is to play games. He may already have a laptop that does everything he wants a PC to do or even just a tablet that he is content with or God forbid a phone. He just wants something to play his games on now. This person is faced with two options. Buy a console, or buy/build a dedicated gaming rig. Its that simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Whatever he bought the device for is what he would use the device for the most. My PS4, can also do more than just play games. But all I care about is its ability to play games. And at the end of the day, if I post a screenshot here of my PS4 running COD:AW and you post a screenshot of yours. And yours looks better. If you are asked, what are you running that on, your answer would be an overclocked pentium cpu and a $190 GPU with 8GB RAM. The answer to that question will not entail how well your PC can run word or photoshop. Cause the only thing we are talking about here is that screenshot of the game you posted.
If he is better of building a PC withhis $700, if playing on PCs are better, if it would cost him les down the road... are all irrelevant to this particular topic. This isn't about which platform is better or how much you spent. That is not what i meant by $350-$400 consoles. What I meant is that $350-$400 represents an estimate of what the hardwrae costs inside the console. So if its performance is being compared to a PC running a game, its only fair that itbe compared to a PC with a similar "hardware" price point. If you read my last few posts in one of them a clearly described exactly what I mean.
