You do have a point there. The last I did any reading about it, word around town was that the current-gen consoles are going to have a longer than normal life cycle considering the state of the economy and the overall cost of producing a new model. I believe Sony has even made a public statement saying they have no immediate plans to develop a replacement to the PS3. That's good for console goers because it's going to be a while before there's an urge or need to replace the current hardware.harold wrote:Yeah, and for a grand I can also have my PS3 and my 360 with a bunch of games. I also get to know that they'll have another 5 years or so in their product cycles without needing to upgrade them to play a game that's released for one of them.MNiceGuy wrote: ^^True
I love building PCs and with a grand I think I could do a lot! All you really need as a fairly fast dual-core and a halfway decent video card.
Don't get me wrong, I like PC gaming. I dig WASD. But when my top-of-the-line video card from less than 2 years previous can barely chug along on the lowest quality settings in a new game it means I have to divert my money from something else to fix it. That means I can't buy toys for my cars. It made more sense to me to pay $200 for a 360 than to pay $500 for a new video card, motherboard, CPU and RAM. The desktop is basically an appliance now and I'm fine with that.
I personally love the extra horsepower a PC has. Some games come pretty close but in others the PC has a clear advantage. There are a lot of people that couldn't care less about the added detail but some do and are completely willing to pay for it. It's like the handling on my car. Most everyone that has a Focus SE is content with it handling like a waterbed. I personally was willing to throw down some cash to make it better. Also, for real time strategy games like Command and Conquer, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc there is no substitute for a keyboard and mouse.
I love my PS3 but there's only one game that I had to have for it: Metal Gear Solid 4 (a masterpiece of a game BTW). Other than that it has become a Blu-Ray/DVD player and Media Center out in the living room. It probably spends 5% of its life gaming and that's being generous. My girlfriend's Wii is a different story. To anyone coming from keyboard/mouse I can't see how they can stand it. It's the same basic concept but on a much sloppier and frustrating scale.
I may be different though because I also call on my PC for photo and video work as well as media storage and streaming. With that said and since I prefer WSAD out of all the control schemes, it made sense for me to put in a beefy video card and use it for gaming as well.
