Dusk said:
Too_Talls said:
I'll throw out a general comment of fan boyism. SOME people will rule out buying their brand of choice in spite of anything. Notice how whenever there is a good anouncment on one side, the other side bands together to downplay it?
In any case I chose Never because nintendo consoles have been a poor choice for general entertainment for years now. I used to get all brands but from the wii generation, Nintendo Stopped caring about parity as the wii's games looked like Game cube games. That was the begininng of the end in third party support. And I grow tired of Nintendo's rinse and repeat reahashing of their old games.
The same thing happened with the wii u, but it's far wose. a console that's support has been dropped in such a short time and a new one released in the middle of a generation has doom written all over it.
Even if they manage a system more powerful than the ps4 and regain the 3rd party support they were lacking, I'd consider it a dead investment. For one thing, I believe I have bought my last game console. With each generation it feels more and more of a waste to get a console over a pc.
I don't know how else to say it, but I honestly don't see it being a worthwhile investment.
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That's my point though. It's far too soon to say whether it's going to be a worth while investment or not. We know nothing about it.
As for the PC thing, I actually went the complete opposite direction as you. I found keeping up with PC gaming became far more expensive than it's worth. Gotta upgrade the GPU every couple years just to be able to play the newer games reasonibly, or at all in some cases, plus upgrade the RAM. Every 5 years or so you pretty much need to rebuild a brand new gaming PC from the MOBO up. The other option is to go all out on a high end gaming system that will likely set you back 2000-3000 bucks but should have you set for quite a while. In the end I ended up spending far more on my gaming PC than I did on the games I played on it. Sure you can make a very basic gaming PC for pretty cheap, slightly more than a console, but it won't have the longivity either, then you fall into the nearly constant upgrading. That's my experience with PC gaming anyway. I was very heavy into PC gaming for the better part of 20 years, that's why I have happily fallen back to console gaming lol.
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What 5 years. I've have componets going on 7 years now. And you don't need the top of the line card. I use the GTX770 for GTA V and the like. And my system cost $1200, when new. Nowhere near that $3000. With 24GB RAM and buying the I7 when it was brand new. Yeah its slower than whats out now. But it can still play top of the line stuff.
