| JaggedSac said: "Try again, there is already a thread showing how with just $675 you have a nice rig to run almost everything at max..." - Actually somebody called the guy out and made him state that it would run only run Crysis on 640X480(Which is far from full). Which looks like crap, at least it would on my 42" lcd. Your right, pc technology increases at a very fast rate. But if developers utilize these advancements they ostracize a large portion of their market. Look at WoW, the developers made a fairly generic looking game that played extremely well on a very wide range of computers, and it is making them tons of money. That is where the pc market makes it's money. Look at The Sims. It plays well on a wide variety of systems as well. Crysis needs a hell of a comp to play and even if you could spend $600 on a pc to play the game, you are buying old ass parts and it is already obsolete. PC gaming will always be there, but it is not going to affect the console market. PC and XBox360 have alot of the same games because development for the two is very similar. You might as well call them both Microsoft platforms. I grew up playing PC games, and every year I would see my father buying new parts. I am not going down that same path. $400 for a system that pumps out great graphics on my 42" lcd for 5 years is a hell of a deal. No gaming pc will keep up without upgrading for 5 years. Another reason PCs have to have more power is because the developers aren't forced to use optimal algorithms. They use brute force and it is noticeable on low end systems. |
This post is full of crap. First, you can build a $500 PC that will run Crysis on High Settings, and make games look better than any console could. Second, WoW looks generic?! I don't think so, and even if it was, the art style of WoW is nothing short of excellent.
" No gaming pc will keep up without upgrading for 5 years" - So? The money you spend on upgrades is money you saved on PC games. You usually save $10-20 for every PC game bought compared to console games... so if you buy 25 PC games in the course of 5 years, you would save $400 from games! That is more than enough money for the upgrades AND still keep some of it. You also don't need to pay $40 every year for Online, unlike Xbox 360.
It's a fact, for a hardcore gamer it's cheaper to play on a PC than on Xbox 360/PS3.
