FAQin' IDJITS! THIS HAS BEEN COVERED ALREADY IN THE THREAD!
1. Exclusive games. There will be less of those than previously, but still its important factor. And to keep console and high-end PC is costly, not everyone can allow that.
There is also exclusive PC games and content (especially as add-ons or mods) so that argument goes boths ways.
Also as was mentioned if you have a plain Radeon 9700 with an XP rig with an XP2200+ with 512MB or RAM (which is the Xbox/Gamecube generation hardware) you'd still be able to play the latest release on low, with the console you won't play the latest games because they are not backwards capatible, only the consoles are. Of course they still release content for the Original Xbox, PS2 (and even PS ONE), and GameCube, but most new titles are new consoles only. The R9700 will be playable with only mild investment (like the cost of a game) until truely DX10 games come out. The only game the R9700+XP2200+ can't play is SplinterCell because UBi is playing favourites in the PC market.
2. Games are fine tuned for consoles, while it cant be done for PC since they have to satisfy much much wider gear requirements. This allows consoles to be played smoothly for as long as games are released for them.
Not all games are fine tuned for consoles, many like Quake4 and Oblivion are PC ports, and really started out glitchy and still play nowhere near like PCs for fluidity and stability.
3. Consoles life cycle is ~5 years. You would have to change/upgrade high-end PC 2 times at least in this period. Each PC will cost more than console itself.
Actually like already mentioned the 5 year old R9700 still plays, so it had just as long a life cycle, and the GF3/4 (nonMX) would have a similar life cycle with BF2 & Oblivion being their first choke points (unless you consider the hacks that make the games playable for them too, can't hack X360/PS3 support into a Xbox/PS2).
4. They are compact, high-end PC usualy takes a lot of space (I ordered myself Titan 550 case to fit 8800GTX nicely
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A Shuttle PC is smaller than a console, and gaming laptops kick consoles for size, heck they even include their own HD monitors. The Wii is the only viable challenger, and a 12 inch laptop is smaller on it's own.
In conclusion - if you arent rich,
Then what are you doing buying a PS3!?! They're expensive, whereas a FreePC from your internet provider plus adding a graphics card is far cheaper. Once you factor in the same marketing practices, PCs are just as cheap, even for a gaming PC. Heck for all the tools going on price alone a free PC gaming at 1FPS > Console for you guys who can't seem to understand quality gaming. So throw that argument out, if you need food stamps to buy your console, you can't afford the games either then.
have favourite games exlusively on some console, they are the way to go.
Like I mentioned multiple times, the only issue is exclusive content, and that's more the console market trying to lock you in than a 'benefit', just like Aplle they know if they unleashed that exclusive content, no one would buy their hardware.
Considering most people only look at this from one side this 'debate' is more like fanboi rants. Both have good an bad aspects, and the ony possible consideration IMO other than the jruy-rigged exclusive content, is the ease of use for people who need appliances, not gaming rigs. If you game like Apple users use 'PCs' then get a console. Otherwise get both and STFU! Poor people don't deserves games, go out and get a job! :twisted:
Like I said, This thread neeeds to DIE!
Oh yeah... well, PS1's core @ 33 blazing MHz 0wnZ Y3R B0nZ3
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