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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
Sorry but that is an asinine statement.
It wouldn't take more than $500 to put together a system that would be at least 5X as powerful as a console. More like 10-15x, depending on the game.
10x performance for 2x the money? Yeah I think that might be a better choice. Oh and it's a fucken computer too, that you can, you know, do shit with  |
sorry...PC gaming never had that much of a "value"...unless you use it for productivity as well (which the vast majority don't)
you have the remember multiplatform games are generally better optimized on the console so even if it has aging hardware it will still run comparable to PC system built 2-3 years or so after that. It helps it doesn't require API to run the games and there's not like 40 million processes running the background. Then you take first party studios like Epic Games and Naughty Dog and your jaws just drop at how much value they can still squeeze out of those things.
the majority of the population aren't hardcore enough to shell out $600+ every couple of years just to see 8x MSAA/ambient occlusion maxed out textures avg 60fps....especially if you play on average an hour a day. To them, 640p @30fps is just fine...I'm sure they rather keep that extra $600-1000 for something else. .and with the ps3 you also get blu-ray playback and doubles up as a media streamer...at $250 these days that's still a good deal.