| S.T.A.G.E. said: Its amazing that PC gamers are on a sales website and fail to understand through social awareness the reason and cost effectiveness of going console over PC. The lack of ability to see is primarily a lack of social awareness. -Base price is the base price and it doesn't change. PC's demand maintenance. -Casuals do not purchase as many games as normal gamers. -It is simple and easy and can serve as their media center just like a PC, but legitimately for the living room. -Casuals dont generally look as much at enthusiast websites like we do for their information most of the time. They'll usually go to a gamestop or look at a review or two on IGN but thats baout it. -Casuals like to play moderate level games, but where they feel it is more affordable and most cost effective...they don't need to know anymore than that and that is why they make the decisions that they do. Those who use PC's for gaming in the capacity that a core gamer does have a deeper knowledge and thus value the notion of Platform upkeep> Games vs console owners who think Games > Platform upkeep. ^This right here is why last gen PC gamers complained that console gamers were holding games back. They know console gamers and casuals are where the money is coming from but they cannot stand that their gaming experience is being a hampered. They have to learn to deal with it or become a cash cow for publishers otherwise. |
This really has nothing to do with what we're discussing or arguing for that fact, but I'm going to go ahead and refute some of your claims.
1) PCs do not "demand" maintenance. Once you build it, you're set until you decide to upgrade the parts years down the road. If it does indeed break down, then replacing a part generally suffices in fixing it.
2) Yes, we understand people who don't possess a comprehensive knowledge on gaming would probably just go to a store to purchase a console. That's why that market exists, but sticking to the assumption we game as a hobby (which I'm sure all of us do on this site), then this argument has gaming enthusiasts in mind.
3) This has nothing to do with being "socially aware."
We shouldn't have to "learn to deal with it." I think it's fair to demand a quality product, and we shouldn't have to settle for whatever the market gives us either.
