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jason1637 on 04 July 2016
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Zkuq said:
jason1637 said:

Sometimes you actually get games that you want.

Also in this comparison I did add subscription cost. Owning multiple consoles isn't really relevant for this.

Yeah, sometimes. What about the other games you care about? And what about all the ones you don't care about, are you going to include all of them in the value  too? And yeah, you did add the subscription cost - for about a year. I'd say considering how popular online multiplayer on consoles is these days, that's a very short period.

Technically you're correct about owning multiple consoles. You could compare just a single console's price to a PC, and it's probably fine in a lot of cases. But if you look at the bigger picture, it's going to be wrong for a lot of gamers. I'd guess that most casual gamers own just one console, but more dedicated gamers tend to have multiple consoles. I think there have been some polls on this site that have showed that a lot of people here (a majority even) own or plan to get multiple consoles, which suddenly isn't as cheap anymore. So yeah, depending on your gaming habits or what kind of scope you choose for the comparison, limiting it to just a single console vs. PC could be right. But a proper comparison could also look really grim for consoles, depending on gaming habits or choice of scope. It's a complex issue of course. What about people that own both a PC and a console or several? It's pretty difficult to account for all possible, or even popular, cases.

My point is that it's not all black and white. You can find ways to make the situation seem beneficial to either side, but which one offers better value is really up to each person. Personally I find PC gaming offers me the better value, but for a lot of people, it's console gaming that offers better value. And then there's also other factors that aren't directly related to value, such as convenience. To me, it seems that a lot of people choose console gaming over PC gaming even if PC gaming would actually offer them better value, just because of a few exclusives and convenience.

Well the games you dont care about there still free so if someoen checks them out they might end up loving it.

But yeah i think its around 60% of gamers own two consoles/PC/Handheld so there are people that do own multiple gaming devices.

I see where your ocming from because if you already own a gaming PC there isnt much reasson to get  a console or specifically an xbox since PC and Xbox are sharing exclusives.