sundin13 said:
I feel like this is a very poor argument for a number of reasons. For one, not everybody who has $1000 of disposable income has $1300 of disposable income (or $1600 if you factor in the fact that you need multiple consoles to play different exclusives), and even if they do, the value proposition becomes highly skewed when you are spending hundreds of dollars for one or two exclusives (depending on how many exclusives you are interested in). Second, you have to account for all of the differences in the games between a console and PC. There are different communities that you would be playing with, different tools, different online platforms (remember to add in $60 a year to your value proposition if you want to play online), different control interfaces and different technical capabilities. |
Well disposable income isn't a one-off thing though. Income comes in on a weekly or monthly basis, constantly replenishing itself. Unless someone is scrimping and saving for well over a year just to build their PC, it shouldn't take them that long to save enough for a console. I agree that the value proposition becomes skewed if you are just buying a console for two games. I've known a lot of people that bought a Wii U just for Kart and Smash. And I feel for them for sure.
Oh, and yes, if somebody spends most of their time playing multiplayer online games then they should be playing on a PC. Me though? I'm mostly single player, so online subscirption fees might cost me $20 a year tops.
