Dose it tick you off

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As we all know building a gaming PC can make the price of the PS3 look cheap as chips I was wondering how man people get extremly fed up on spending sometimes 1000s of pounds on a gaming PC then the game you've been waiting for ends up console only. I think it's discusting that game developers sell there souls. It also is a wast on how good a game could have been which it will no longer be due to limitations of consoles.
 
I gave up on buyin all the expensive gear, only have all the latest as the insurance paid for it.

its become far too pricey with £400 for gcards etc etc when a xbox 360 does the same job just as goood.
 
you either do it or not. I do not believe that there is a sane arguement for spending loads on a top of the range gaming PC rig when, as you rightly say, you could buy a console for the same or less that will do the games just as good if not better. Plus the consoles hardware will be stretched more that your PC's hardware. Plus you have all the hassles of PC gaming with software not working or having problems on some set ups.

However I will continue to spend money I do not have on PC hardware, just because. Yes it does tick me off but it does not stop me.

Plus the voices tell me to do it.
 
i always buy second hand off silly rich people who sell 3 month old kit at 40% under retail value to clever poor people like me... some examples below:


i bought from MM

opty 148 for £60, was worth £115 was 3 months old and retail.

2 gig corsair XMS for £85, now worth £110 second hand... life time warrenty

X1800XT 512 £240, was 1 month old and bought new for £400 by said silly rich person, it later broke and was replaced with a shiney new X1900XT for free

water cooling kit, built out of second hand bits and a brand new CPU block, £60, worth £90.


yada yada, i estimate ive spent about £550 for a pc thats worth £850 with ease. the trick is to find bargains.
 
Taking into account what Locutus said, as well as the fact that Sony and MS bump the prices of the games for their consoles up to around ~£50 and i'd say it's not as cheap to own a console anymore.

Plus there's little bits that aren't included like something that can output in HD like a monitor or an HD-ready TV. Maybe a bigger hard drive?

I just think that certain games are console only in a desperate attempt to shift more of said console. Anybody who wants a PS3 or XB360 are gonna buy it within the first 6 months, after which time the companies need new ideas to shift units.

IMO they're more than welcome, I admit i'm disappointed about COD3, but apart from that I can't think of a single game I miss being available for the PC.
 
meh, if I played games on the consol as much as I do the PC I'd have to buy a new game every week (you don't get EVE on console nor Empires, theres V few online games) that would cost a small fortune!
 
I spent over 2k on a new pc this year which i regret doing now as vista, dx10 etc are coming out 2007 so again prices are going to drop and the things ive bought will be a fraction of the price. Just the way this sick world works really. I've never been a big fan of consoles but do have a laugh if its with friends 4player footie or whatever but for that edge over consoles an uber pc takes it any day.

Saying that Nintendo Wii is pre-orderd :E
 
PC gaming hardware has always been expensive. It hasn't become it. A Geforce 3 was practically 400GBP. We've just become more hyped up about hardware for particular games, and it's the 3-5 yearly PC/Console comparison.

It personally doesn't tick me off, what game were you expecting for PC that didn't come out? I've got used to the prices of gaming hardware/games for PC/console, compared to when I started buying kit I now earn a lot more money.

You make your own choice wether to purchase at the bleeding edge or not. 1000s of pounds on a gaming PC is a narrow/specialist use of that money. If you just use that PC for gaming then that's a lot of money. A 500pound console can't do as much as a PC (might change soon ;) ) and has a fixed hardware platform, and still won't have every game released for it.
 
Turbanation said:
I regulary update my pc and I am pre-ordering PS3.

Degree for the win!!
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untill you lose your job, and our debt record causes a massive market downturn... then youl be selling your PS3 for food or burning it for fuel :p
 
it really depends, for some people PC's are very expensive, for others its cheaper.

for me, pc games last me a lot longer than console games, i can play the same pc game for years without wanting a new one so i dont have to upgrade so often. whereas a console game is finished in a week with not a lot of replayability so i want another one, and between £30-50 each game and £100-£300 for a console, it can become more expensive than the pc.

then you get the people that spend like £5000 on the latest upgrades every year, then it gets very expensive.
 
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Guys/Gals

The PC is always going to be one step ahead,

When the PS2 came out there wasnt a PC with that power but pretty soon tech improved and PC was ahead, in a about 1 year and bit the PC will (hopefully) be settled in with DX10 and Vista and that sort graphics is gna blow the xbox 36 0 outta the water ;)
 
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it doesnt tick me off....cos the types of games i play (or played) mmorpg/fps are more suited to keyboard and mouse and untill ms or sony bring out said peripherals i wont be buying a console (tried cod 3 with the 360 pad and found it awful!)
 
The price difference is illussory. In the first place, console games cost more than PC games. In the second place, most people would need a pc ANYWAY to use for other things.

It IS disgraceful how PC games are often turned into console exclusives though (not to mention the appalling quality of most PC ports of console-native games). Seems to me many franchises have started off on inauspicious beginnings on the PC, which was always a haven for more experimental games, and then hit it big and get bought up by one or another of the platform holders. I'm glad there's a few developers out there, such as Bioware, who haven't forgotten who their core fanbase is and who made them what they are today back in the isometric 3d days, and therefore always port their games to PC eventually despite their exclusivity deals with MS, and in spite of the fact that sales of the PC version are likely to be quite low given the time span between the XBOX and PC versions, during which period anyone who really wants to buy it probably already has, and I do believe this is the longest sentence I've ever written on this forum.
 
If you can afford the latest hardware... why not?

If you're like the rest of us, then get a mid range gfx card for around £100 quid and it'll play modern games and have them look quite nice, plus all the older games suddenly get a new lease of life in high detail.

I spent £500 quid two years ago now bringing my PC a bit more up to date. Two years on it is still playing most games very nicely indeed. Hardly thousands. I plan on spending another 500 just after christmas on a new mobo/ CPU and gfx. I'd expect that I'll be able to play most games on medium for a while before I need a new upgrade again. It's more than adequate and makes much more sense than paying £300- 500 for a GFX card that will be worth peanuts within a year and still play games adequetly.

A mid range PC gives you far more bang per buck than a high end PC and although slighlty more expensive than a console, can do far more than a console with the added bonus that games still look better than they do on console, usually have far wider variety in styles of game and generally provide far better online gaming experiences.

A game may end up being console only, but there are far more PC games that are PC Only in pratically every genre.

(So no... I'm not too fussed)
 
Hamoodii said:
Guys/Gals

The PC is always going to be one step ahead,

When the PS2 came out there wasnt a PC with that power but pretty soon tech improved and PC was ahead, in a about 1 year and bit the PC will (hopefully) be settled in with DX10 and Vista and that sort graphics is gna blow the xbox 36 0 outta the water ;)
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Fine in theory, except there are still a stack of games on the first Xbox which blow away anything on the PC...
 
im not really bothered. i think the 360's graphics are shocking.
and i just prefer whem whole experience of PC gaming, you have the world at your fingertips, ventrilo / ts2, IRC / internet, forums, updates, a nice desk to sit at, the ability to change all the eye candy.

that is ofcourse for online gaming ^^

ive had y fair share of consoles but i prefer to use a PC and i dont think im going to be upgrading for a bit as this PC does what i NEED it to do perfectly :D

my brothers getting a PS3 though so i may have a bash.
 
You shouldn't even consider trying to keep up with the latest hardware if you ever expect to maintain the ultimate system without buying expensive new parts every fortnight. It's never ending, it's always been that way so getting annoyed about it is silly.
 
I'm still owning a P4 Northwood AGP system that allows me to play games like NWN2 decently - no need for expensive stuff. Yes, it would be nice to play Oblivion at full 60FPS at all max and high resolution on my 19" CRT :rolleyes:

I'm considering Wii because of the price, it's selection of games and as it stands, more entertaining than the 360 or PS3.

I've got to admit, it is pretty darn annoying when games come out "Console Only" e.g. Jade Empire on the XBox, and now Jade Empire will be on the PC "soon".

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