barneystinson69 said:
For a 2TB HDD with a 4k blu-ray player? Of course its a far better value! Give me a PC with similar specs to the XB1 for the same price (including the blu-ray player and 2TB HDD, I'll let you skip out on OS though), and I'll pay you a lot of money if you can find it. Good luck!
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It's used, so it's utterly unfair, but I just helped buy a pallet of used Lenovo S20s for our interns at the law firm.
Hex Core Twelve-Thread Xeon 2.93ghz, 12Gb DDR3, really solid PSUs, and Quadro 600s, with Windows 7 Pro licenses for $140/ea. Free upgrade to a fresh install of W10 legally through the end of July.
Add a 2TB HDD, $48.99 (amazon.com)
Add an MS branded Xbox controller (windows edition) $26.99 (amazon.com)
Add an Nvidia 750ti FTW Edition (easily plays games beyond X1 level in virtually all cases, and often above PS4 settings in games like BF4/Battlefront) $126.99
(amazon.com)
Add a Bluray Drive (reads Bluray and DVD/CD, burns DVD/CDs) $43.99 (amazon.com)
Add a Logitech wireless KB/M combo $14.95 (amazon.com)
$401.91, combo it with a $10 kbm (literally cheapest combos out there on a few sites) and you've hit the ~$400 range with a licensed OS.
Now it IS used, but this is our second round of these things, and they've all been super tough. After about 70 of them, zero PSU/mobo/system failures. We've put 240GB SSDs in them because almost no data is stored locally at the firm, everything is on NAS and cloud shares. But for gaming they're surprisingly stout once you punt the stock Quadro card to the curb. They even have 8+6pin PCIe cables! Also really cool is that PC is now the best place to play Blurays, with Leawo player playing a movie DIRECTLY with no logos/ads/warnings/BS wasting your time. Just put the disc in, run the app, and you better have your popcorn ready because that movie is ON.
To make this fair, you would have to wait until 4K bluray drives are affordable, and compare used Xbox to these prices regardless of the fact that most of the stuff in the S20 would be new after going this route. But the fact remains a ~3ghz Hex Xeon with 12GB and a 750ti FTW edition (overclocked generously past the 750ti that is known to hit PS4 settings) is a system that will handily outperform or meet X1 performance in virtually all titles.
Obviously store-bought systems and all new, I would certainly agree that the XB1S, hell even the regular XB1, is a better value for most people than a PC.
I'd rather have a lesser PC than even an XB1 Scorpio or PS4 Neo if I had to only have one or the other though. I like controllers for fighting, sports, racing, and platformers. I absolutely loathe using it for FPS, and can only vaguely tolerate it for TPS.
That's the thing though, different strokes for different folks/etc. All points of view are equally valid, and I'll never pretend that my way is right for anyone else besides me. When's the last time you saw anyone on the internet actually change their mind about ANYthing? LOL :D