Find me a Desktop PC on Amazon.

[JEMC]

d21lewis said:

JEMC said:

Well, I'm not going to say that whoever said that back in the day was lying, but maybe he got carried away while discussing the new machine and its specs.

Right now you could build a PC as powerful if not more than the XOne for $500, but not without some troubles because, with no intention to disrespect the machine, it's so outdated that it's hard to find components of that level outside the second hand market.

I remember whoever said they could get one mentioned using a lot of used components. I just figured there was an off the shelf PC that could do it, now. Doesn't have to run perfectly. Even 360 level, maybe. I just want to get my feet wet.

The problem is that OEM brands like Dell, HP, etc. always want new gear to sell their products, and are keen to jump on th latest hardware to do so. It's so much like that that AMD had to rebrand its whole HD 7000 series GPUs to HD 8000, just for OEM to sell new PCs.

And of course, newer hardware is not only more powerful, but the price is kept constant or even higher. That's why the second hand market would be your only choice.

That said, the two computers that boffer has posted would be capable of running any game from this gen at 1080p.