| mrstickball said: Regardless, I still greatly prefer the closed-development platform of a console versus a PC. The fact that you say you get the highest end stuff for $800 and such, and can play games X and Y on graphic setting B is rather funny. I've been a PC gamer (or I should say was), in the mid 1990's to early 2000's. I've had 2 computers in that timespan (plus the one I have). Paid $2,500 for a Pionex rig - 120mhz, 16mb of ram, 1mb vid card, 1.6gb of HDD, 17" SVGA monitor, printer. Gaming-wise, it lasted me about 2 years on the newest, and best games. After that, there was a huge dropoff in what games I could play when they started requiring 32mb of ram, and I didn't upgrade. Same thing happened with my next rig - a 1.2ghz AMD, 128mb of ram, 40gb HDD, and I think a 32mb V-card, in 01. It was a great, cheap rig when I got it, but the ram got useless pretty quick. It saw maybe 1-2 years of the top-end games, then went DOA. There are great tradeoffs with both systems - consoles are cheaper, and closed dev space, so your going to actually play new games for 5+ years from the start of the console's life cycle. The PC will always get better graphics for whatever games, but it's absolute bull to say that a PC can play games for more than 4 years on ANY setting. In fact, someone show me a rig from 3 years ago that has the minimum requirements for Crysis, and is under $2,000. Someone do that NOW if you want to prove PC superiority. But unless you can show be an affordable computer that can last 3+ years for good games, your full of crap. |
So basically you know nothing of the current PC trend. The knowledge you've gained from 2 PCs of so long ago is pointless if you're trying to apply it today.
The prices of PCs have steadily decreased over the years, especially in the last 2 years. An average PC 10 years ago was $1500; 5 years ago was $1100; and today it's $800. That's a fact.
And also, PCs nowadays last longer for games than before. That's another fact. Games are slowly reaching a plateau financially and techonologically, while the technology is getting more and more popular with cheaper prices. My brother has a pc from 2003 (P4 2.8Ghz, ATI Radeon 9600se, 1gb DDR) and he cannot wait to play Starcraft 2 and Sam&Max S2, plus other games I might buy (SPORE, Stalker: Clear Sky, A Vampyre Story) since he doesn't search much for games. Hell, he even tried playing Crysis' demo (which worked on lowest settings, with some slowdown on cutscenes)
