Nope. 

bullshit. Less than a used PS3? Less than $200. You are entirely full of shit. Download in minutes? How fast is your internet? Yes, steam is simple, and cheap. That's part of the reason it's so popular. 

I'm actually serious about this. I guess a tablet wouldn't cut it, so let's step up to some hybrid or a laptop. Asus is releasing a sub-$200 laptop (HP almost did so, but jacked up the price by $50). A T100, wouldn't cut it since it held its price for a year now (a price cut of only $10, it's quite popular), so let's step down to a hybrid like the Cherry Mobile Alpha Morph (which, because of exchange rate magic, and a price drop, has magically dropped sub-$200 despite taxes).

Add a cheap mouse to this (something that costs $10, at least), and you'd still stay within range of $200.

Why is it so hard to believe that the download only took minutes for a few hundred MB patches? They had the disc version!

I think he exagerrated with the pricepoint, but that's no reason to get so emotional and insult him. Perhaps the PC was a used model for a good price. The IT of my workplace gives away written off PCs for a few bucks (20 - 50 €) now and then to clear their space... last month some older PCs (Core2Duo, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista, keyboard, mouse) for merely 10 €, just to get rid of this stuff, some old laser printers or free on top. Of course you would have to add an entry-level graphic card... these PCs were bought for office work, not for gaming.

I'm serious as well man. You would certainly have to step up the processor as ARM and Atom's aren't in the same league as desktop or even most laptop processors. The problem with those that you are talking about with the $200 price tag won't have enough GPU oomph to run it, and if they do, they certainly won't do it well. Just the processor won't in that thing won't actually cut it not to mention the Intel graphics. Unless you are getting a used GPU for a desktop that isn't too old, or a relatively newish laptop with a mediocre GPU it's going to run it like crap. 

I have a i5 2.2 quad core with Nvidia 8400M, 8GM RAM and it doesn't run the game well. It was purchased about a year ago, not for gaming, and it was $500ish when I bought it. Certainly not a PS3 level graphics with any reasonable frame rate. 

I'm actually serious about this. I guess a tablet wouldn't cut it, so let's step up to some hybrid or a laptop. Asus is releasing a sub-$200 laptop (HP almost did so, but jacked up the price by $50). A T100, wouldn't cut it since it held its price for a year now (a price cut of only $10, it's quite popular), so let's step down to a hybrid like the Cherry Mobile Alpha Morph (which, because of exchange rate magic, and a price drop, has magically dropped sub-$200 despite taxes).

Add a cheap mouse to this (something that costs $10, at least), and you'd still stay within range of $200.

You got suckered on that deal dude. 

 I bought 16 titans, 16  3 terabyte ssd + 16 5 terabyte hdds, 4 i7s with 256 GB of DDR4 for only 45$.  

The cost of a mouse and keyboard is around 5 dollars at a thrift store. You might even be able to find a monitor there for 30 dollars as well. Windows is $65 and it unnecessary as you can use Linux.

It's important to know that they really haven't done much of any work. They just went to pcpartpicker, which really does all the work for you.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ofrm1/saved/2c8zK8

That's actually a more expensive build, too. I could have cut several corners and dropped the price more than $50.

Just goes to show you that price is no longer an argument for consoles as they easily will cost more than a pc will.