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Gaming Platform of Choice - Console

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-flame-war dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sick of PC snobs bragging about their "superior" gaming rigs? This opinion piece (a rebuttal lobbed at a previous article taking the opposite stance) presents the other side of the eternal debate over gaming preference — consoles vs. PCs. Get 10 good reasons why consoles are a better way to game with your hard-earned dollars. "

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  1. reason No 11: by lovebyte · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can be MS free and play games on a console (except xbox exclusives)

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  2. Nothing to see here... by bjk002 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pure opinion piece. Little to no substance. Completely lacking valid/verifyable evidence to back up claims.

    Smells like a console sales pitch.

    Why is /. wasting our time with these?

    Move along...

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  3. PC vs Consoles by dcs · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't even know why people discuss this. Consoles have a better dollar value and always will. And PCs deliver more power and always will.

    You can probably buy 100 consoles (*not* games!) for the value of a high-end gaming rig (literally), but there's nothing you can do to your console that will actually improve it.

    And, in that respect, a PC evolves more smoothly too. And I don't mean you can "upgrade" your PC. You got PCI? Now there's AGP. You got AGP? Now there's PCI-Express. So you have to change the motherboard, and, by the way, that CPU is now obsolete, and so is the memory. You can usually keep the IDE cables, unless you went to SATA.

    But you can buy a whole new PC next year, and play the games you already own *better*. Moreover, next year you can buy games that have improvements that aren't available today. The console cycle is much slower. They jump farther each time, but they take longer to jump.

    Meaning, basically, that if you spend money enough to buy 1000 consoles each year, you'll have a much better experience than that which is possible with said consoles. And, on the other side, you just won't buy a PC capable of what that console is capable for the same amount of money.

    This is all obvious. Why does anyone bother to argue over it?

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  4. PC games by Angst+Badger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Personally, I'm just tired of PC games that can't run decently on anything more than six months old.

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