Price:
Slacker listed some cheap components to build a PC, adding that 8 items = 392.92 not including tax, OS, keyboard, mouse, wireless card and bluray. How much is a PS3 now? XBox360?
I distinctly remember I said the price was 392.92 WITHOUT rebates and promotion codes, after which it would climb down to $300. I also pointed out the advantage of paying $300 for a pc as opposed to paying $300 for a ps3 or $200 for an xbox 360 - because you're still going to need a pc in the latter case - and taltamir expanded on the argument with the fact that you usually don't even need to buy a new pc, but just to upgrade your video card, and, more rarely your cpu. If you care about your wallet, you can even sell your old hardware.
Adding the keyboard and mouse thing just doesn't make up for a very compelling argument, since you'll probably either find a set lying around in your house anyway, or get a cheap $10 kit. The wireless card argument doesn't stand on it's merit either, since not everybody uses a wireless connection. It's cheaper to just jack in an udp cable from your router to your machine.
It's also kind of annoying how you only mention how much extra money you have to spend for pc software and other stuff, but you forget that console games are more expensive than pc games, which will add up to more money in the long run.
And who pays $150 for a copy of windows?
http://www.windows7sale.net/
[...] but sometimes you probably want to ask yourself a simple question "Does 3D 3x1080p a requirement for a good game?"
Not sure if there's anyone who ever asked themselves that question ... But, yes,
technically you don't NEED to play a video game at a higher resolution than what's standard for a console, but then you could argue that you don't need anything over 640*480 either, just like you don't need to live in a comfortable home, and have a hobby, life's ambition, all these means of entertainment, friends etc - you just need air, water and food.
We don't look for higher resolution monitors and better hardware because we need to, we do it because we WANT to. I like my games to look good.
The quality of graphics isn't the most important thing in terms of gaming.
Who said it was, but if there's a convenient way to improve the way a game looks, then why not jump on it.
Consoles and PCs are not mutually exclusive products. Some bought a cheap PC to serve the web,
I know, I just said that in my previous post - I said that not only they are not mutually exclusive, they are pretty much a mandatory combination if you already have a console, which is why it's cheaper to have a gaming pc than having both a htpc pc and a console.
and upgrading it to a high-end level may require a big investment (>1k).
A decent gpu is abput 100 bucks ... Seriously, I know the "you need to spend thousands of dollars on a gaming pc lolz lmfao" argument is popular among console owners and/or fans, but um ... you know ... this is a hardware forum ... people tend to not fall for that logic here.
You don't need 2600k+3x580SLI to play, and it is still fun.
Actually, even on this forum, there's only like 2-3 people who own a similar setup, and they're the rich folk - they can spend whatever they like on whatever they want, that's the point of being rich. I have a athlon II x3 + hd 4770 setup which cost me like less than 150 bucks for the two, and there's no game I can't max out at my resolution (although I haven't played gta4)
I don't invite them to my house to play games unless it is online games, and they need to bring their laptops with them. Why? Yes, I can buy SF PC version easily, but shall we share the same keyboard and start touching hands? Actually, when they come over, they will bring their consoles + games, no problems. Plug and play. I however never ever brought my PC over to their house.
That's strange, I used to have lan parties all the time before I got myself some fast internet.
Game controllers also work on pc's and there are quite a few split screen games that were developed for it.
I assume you are not as "out" as I do because my friends all have PSP and they go out and play together at tea shop. Supreme graphics? I don't think so, but then I never have the chance to play monster hunter which they all were crazy about.
I did have a psp. Got bored of it pretty fast. But we're discussing comparable gaming systems in this thread, and the psp can't hold a candle against even the wii.
Have you played Angry Birds? I haven't, but my friends did. High degree of dynamic tessellation in 3D? Or is it simply a fun game? I read about it, but haven't played it. Can this be a good reason to buy a smartphone or shall I say "My PC is 100x faster, better, sexier than your crappy phone?"
Not sure what you mean with this, or why do you refer to so many games or gadgets that you don't own or have used, all the while trying to convince us how fun they are...
Another thing that I find kind of odd is how you changed your tone to "well, there are these other gaming systems that are fun too, the pc is not the only one", but the purpose of this thread is to compare pc's vs consoles and decide on which is better, not weather or not the other gadgets besides the pc are fun too - I'm honestly sure they are. Basically we're arguing on which one would you chose, if you were to pick only one - it's kind of redundant and done to death, but there it is, the topic of the thread.
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