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Words Of Wisdom on 23 June 2008

They assume that console gamers are dumb enough to pay their outrageous prices.



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koopatrooper on 23 June 2008

because with pc u have a greater choice and by console games u have to get whats there for any price!


and because consoles are cheaper than pc`s thats how they make money



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Slimebeast on 23 June 2008

The license fee to console makers is the only valid reason to have a slighlty higher price, but not $100 for console versus $60 for PC games like it's here in Sweden.

Yeah, I believe it's because they can get away with it...



Hawkeye on 23 June 2008

Which would you prefer-
A. $2000 console with $40 games
B. $350 console with $60 games
there is your answer. PC gamers pay through the nose for hardware but better control and graphics and customization and get decent prices on software. Console gamers get much cheaper hardware but slightly more expensive software.



sc94597 on 23 June 2008
Hawkeye said:
Which would you prefer-
A. $2000 console with $40 games
B. $350 console with $60 games
there is your answer. PC gamers pay through the nose for hardware but better control and graphics and customization and get decent prices on software. Console gamers get much cheaper hardware but slightly more expensive software.

Are you delutional? My $700 pc could play any game on high-very high settings at 720p, and most games I could play even higher. You could probably build a pc for $500 that could play any game on the mariket, and play them with better graphics than the hd consoles.

 



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demacII on 23 June 2008

Here in Canada new PC games are 59 dollars and so are console games.

PC games seem to hit the bargin bin quicker though.



Leetgeek on 23 June 2008
demacII said:
Here in Canada new PC games are 59 dollars and so are console games.

PC games seem to hit the bargin bin quicker though.

 

ditto



Hawkeye on 23 June 2008
sc94597 said:
Hawkeye said:
Which would you prefer-
A. $2000 console with $40 games
B. $350 console with $60 games
there is your answer. PC gamers pay through the nose for hardware but better control and graphics and customization and get decent prices on software. Console gamers get much cheaper hardware but slightly more expensive software.

Are you delutional? My $700 pc could play any game on high-very high settings at 720p, and most games I could play even higher. You could probably build a pc for $500 that could play any game on the mariket, and play them with better graphics than the hd consoles.

 

 

I asked my friend before "if I bought an $800 PC, would it be able to play CoD4 so I could play it with you guys at the LAN party?" and he said "it would run, but it wouldn't run on any setting worth playing". He may be wrong, I have no idea as I have a crappy laptop, but my impression has been that a very expensive PC is needed to run modern PC games like Crysis and CoD4.



thekitchensink on 23 June 2008
Leetgeek said:
demacII said:
Here in Canada new PC games are 59 dollars and so are console games.

PC games seem to hit the bargin bin quicker though.

 

ditto

News to me, and I'm in Canada.

 



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The_vagabond7 on 23 June 2008

I have a 750 dollar PC from 2 years ago that can run Call of duty 4, Bioshock and any modern game aside from crysis on AT LEAST medium settings if not higher. Today you could build my same PC for waaay cheaper. For 2000 dollars you are either getting ripped off, or a godlike machine.

PCs used to be the expensive alternative, but the price on a good PC has gone way down and the price of a high end console has gone way up. Gaming PCs (with an abundance of multimedia functions) are now only marginally more expensive than multimedia consoles.



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