PC Industry Still Growing and Faster Than Consoles

[dahuman]

hunter_alien said:

dahuman said:

Yeah, the US is too stupid big as one country, I wish we all had fiber everywhere here, but ATT, being a corporation as they are, won't activate most of them even though they own pretty much all of them across the country. I mean it's so bad in the States that some people in rural areas are just now getting shitty satellite internet lol. Gotta be in major cities or more populated areas or you are screwed with internet here. How are the console prices in Europe BTW? About the same as the US or higher? It's hard to make a comparison unless we have numbers from different regions and that really changes things. In the US, it's currently better to just get a PC because the prices are good if you know how to hunt for parts and use old Windows licenses to upgrade to Windows 10, I don't know how it compares to the rest of the world though.

Pretty overpriced, unfortunatly. Last year I was hunting for a 3DS XL and new, it was almost 300$.

At the current exchange rate the 1TB PS4 is ~ 450$ while the 500GB is ~ 400$. The PS3 is ~ 210$. The Xone is ~ the same price ( a bit more expensive the 1TB model) as the PS4, and games are ~ 5$ more expensive then in the rest of the world. And keep in mind, we are talking about a country that is still strugling to reach the 600$ avrege monthly income, a value that is extremely sqewed.

So yeah, we are fucked when it comes to gaming. Everything is overpirced. Luckily, piracy is pretty much accepted as standard, and never in my life have I seen a crackdown, since the bootleg CD period, when only people who had on them thousands of pirated software ready for sale, would be rarely caught. I think I am one of the few people who I know who actually buys games fromn the store, but slowly people are starting to open up their wallets.

Edit: price typo.

PS: If Im lucky this year I might finally buy a new 3DS XL at 230$ new...

Dang O_O;