I am no stranger to PC gaming i just feel that a large part of why consoles do well is the economics of it more than the difficulty of set up. And while you can indeed buy a relatively worth while PC to play games on for around 1000 its not going to handle the 1600x1200 4xAA gaming that people where bragining about earlier on in the posts. Also that thousand dollar PC will not still run the best games in 4-6 years. Most likely it won't run the best games in 1-2 years. Think about what you could have bought for a grand in july of 2003 and then think about how well doom3 woudl have run on it. while doom does indeed scale incredibly well (as does half life) not all games are as well designed. In order to get the best out of a game and the rediculous resolutions people where claiming you would indeed have to spend upwards of two thousand dollars every 2-3 years to keep up. As aposed to the 300 dollar investment every 4-6 years to have a new console.
As far as games library the back catalog on pc games isnt really a fare comparison, just like i dont feel that PS2 shoudl be aloud to claim all the PS1 games as part of its cataloge. People are concerned with new games when they buy a new system. When it comes to new games the PC and xbox are about on par with new releases and the ps2 exceeds both of them.
My only point, and i realize my thoughts where a bit scattered, was that a lot of the people on here are sitting in this little tech bubble talking to other serious computer buffs about why anyone would bother with console gaming and no one seemed to even realize that a large part of why so many more people play console games rather than pc games is largely due to cost rather than quality of the tech or the difficulty in setting it up properly.
and i dont know why anyone would be dumb enough to buy an xbox wich is sooo weak compared to a pc."
wow, and here i thought people on slashdot where usually smart. i realize most of you guys probably spend a small fortune on computer junk and alot of people on here may also make a good bit of money doing some computer related job, but the bulk fo this country does not have very much expendable income. I don't know why its so hard to imagine somone buying a $300 game sytem to hook up to there -$1000 hdtv they bought at walmart and there $200-300 suround sound/DVD player they also baught at walmart. why dont they just go pay $1000 for a cpu, $500 for a top of the line video card, and then a couple hundred for a decent sized monitor and another hundred for decent speakers and then that whole ram/hard drive/ mother board/case/ sound car(although most mobo's have decent built in sound now) thing.
so lets see for less than 2g's i can have a nice like 30-40" hdtv and a pretty nice game consle with a ton of games to choose from and decent surround sound... or for atleast 2 grand if not more i can play in even higher res on a 19inch monitor that takes up my whole damn desk and weighs more than german shepard (do we count flat panels? with their crappy refresh rates and/or humongus price tags?)... yeah you guys are right, people are stupid. Especially the lower class, *pfft* who needs em!
Besides when i have to buy a new 500 dollar video card again next year along with more ram, my pc will be soooooo much better than the xbox2 its not even funny.
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I am no stranger to PC gaming i just feel that a large part of why consoles do well is the economics of it more than the difficulty of set up. And while you can indeed buy a relatively worth while PC to play games on for around 1000 its not going to handle the 1600x1200 4xAA gaming that people where bragining about earlier on in the posts. Also that thousand dollar PC will not still run the best games in 4-6 years. Most likely it won't run the best games in 1-2 years. Think about what you could have bought for a grand in july of 2003 and then think about how well doom3 woudl have run on it. while doom does indeed scale incredibly well (as does half life) not all games are as well designed. In order to get the best out of a game and the rediculous resolutions people where claiming you would indeed have to spend upwards of two thousand dollars every 2-3 years to keep up. As aposed to the 300 dollar investment every 4-6 years to have a new console.
As far as games library the back catalog on pc games isnt really a fare comparison, just like i dont feel that PS2 shoudl be aloud to claim all the PS1 games as part of its cataloge. People are concerned with new games when they buy a new system. When it comes to new games the PC and xbox are about on par with new releases and the ps2 exceeds both of them.
My only point, and i realize my thoughts where a bit scattered, was that a lot of the people on here are sitting in this little tech bubble talking to other serious computer buffs about why anyone would bother with console gaming and no one seemed to even realize that a large part of why so many more people play console games rather than pc games is largely due to cost rather than quality of the tech or the difficulty in setting it up properly.
and i dont know why anyone would be dumb enough to buy an xbox wich is sooo weak compared to a pc."
wow, and here i thought people on slashdot where usually smart. i realize most of you guys probably spend a small fortune on computer junk and alot of people on here may also make a good bit of money doing some computer related job, but the bulk fo this country does not have very much expendable income. I don't know why its so hard to imagine somone buying a $300 game sytem to hook up to there -$1000 hdtv they bought at walmart and there $200-300 suround sound/DVD player they also baught at walmart. why dont they just go pay $1000 for a cpu, $500 for a top of the line video card, and then a couple hundred for a decent sized monitor and another hundred for decent speakers and then that whole ram/hard drive/ mother board/case/ sound car(although most mobo's have decent built in sound now) thing.
so lets see for less than 2g's i can have a nice like 30-40" hdtv and a pretty nice game consle with a ton of games to choose from and decent surround sound... or for atleast 2 grand if not more i can play in even higher res on a 19inch monitor that takes up my whole damn desk and weighs more than german shepard (do we count flat panels? with their crappy refresh rates and/or humongus price tags?)... yeah you guys are right, people are stupid. Especially the lower class, *pfft* who needs em!
Besides when i have to buy a new 500 dollar video card again next year along with more ram, my pc will be soooooo much better than the xbox2 its not even funny.
way to see the big picture everybody.