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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by 3Z3VH
So, with game consoles now approaching $600... why would someone not just bite the bullet and go with an ACTUAL computer ?
$600 could buy you one heck of a nice gaming system sans-monitor. If you really care about losing your HDMI support on the PS3, then that means you already have a DVI monitor to use for said computer.
The reason the NES was so successful despite it's cost ? It really was the only game in town. The Genesis was more expensive, and had less games, the atari had nowhere near the same graphics, and computers were still very antiquated to use. Nowadays, a PC can do EVERYTHING these consoles do, they can do it better, faster, they can be upgraded, they can do things that have nothing to do with games even, and you don't have to entirely replace it when the next generation comes out (and apparently now the price isn't even an object anymore).
If Sony really is setting the mark for the evolution of the game console, you will see the game console's demise sooner rather than later, as people will come to realise a PC is a BETTER value.
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I have stated in many other threads I have a finite time for game playing. I don't have time to have to upgrade drivers, upgrade parts, reinstall drivers, manipulate conflicting DLLs and such. I don't want to have to waste time to optimize memory.
I have 1 hour to play, I want to play for 1 hour. I don't want to fix my PC for 40 minutes then play for 20.
Drop in the disc/cartridge, turn on, and start playing.
Even my machine with playing World of Warcraft, I've had to install a better video card, optimize my RAM, reinstall when WoW.exe starting corrupting on exiting characters. Just the reinstall was 2 hours lost to fixing instead of playing.
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