PC Game Prices

Energize said:
You haven't searched very hard then. :p

A 5 second search on a price comparison website (inc postage) brings up.

Transformers The Game £17.95
Bioshock £24.99
Crysis £24.98

With the PS3 costing £400 and the 360 £280 + £40 pa. And the games costing £50. I'd rather wait for the prices to come down and decent games to come out, then buy them for much much less.
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If only you had done a 10 second search instead of 5, you'd find lower PS3 and XBOX hardware and software prices.

You can't search for one and not the other, that is not fair! :D
 
While games are cheaper on PC (say an average of £10-15), it's also true that most serious gamers would spend less on a console than they would on a PC.

If we say a console has a lifespan of around 3 years, during that time serious gamers would probably do at least 1 major (meaning buying one uber rig to last 3 years), or 2 smaller purchases (i.e. a couple of midrange mobo/cpu/ram/gfx card). So the console gamer only spends around £300-400 on hardware, compared to maybe £900 for the PC gamer.

That price difference means that in order for PC gaming to be cheaper, you'd need to buy at least 40-50 new games over that period.

To be honest I reckon it all evens itself out but depends a bit on what kind of budget you have. For people who only have say £600 to spend on hardware+games then a console is much more attractive as you aren't left with much change for games after buying a gaming rig. Whereas people who have over a grand to chuck around can afford a nice connection of games and a decent PC to drive them.

Aside from the Wii (bought as much for my gf as me) I haven't got a console since the SNES because I prefer PC gaming, but that doesn't mean to say that I can't see the appeal of consoles.
 
I paid £25 for Lord Of The Rings: Online but it was worth every penny, and as Tom already said, I haven't really paid more than £17.99 for most games even new. It's good to be a PC gamer. :)
 
sc(+)pe said:
If only you had done a 10 second search instead of 5, you'd find lower PS3 and XBOX hardware and software prices.

You can't search for one and not the other, that is not fair! :D
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Decent new 1st party games are £40 and 3rd party ones as much as £50. Even resistance is £30 after it's release in november over 6 months ago.

In any case, they are double the price of pc ones. ;)
 
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HangTime said:
If we say a console has a lifespan of around 3 years, during that time serious gamers would probably do at least 1 major (meaning buying one uber rig to last 3 years), or 2 smaller purchases (i.e. a couple of midrange mobo/cpu/ram/gfx card). So the console gamer only spends around £300-400 on hardware, compared to maybe £900 for the PC gamer.
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Unless you are a hardware enthusiast with money to burn you aren't going to spend £900 on new hardware over that time period. I've had my pc 5 years and haven't spent anywhere near that much.
 
To be fair my last 2 purchases for 360, The Darkness and Overlord have both been under £30. I have noticed a bit of a drop in price recently for new 360 and PS3 games.

Can't complain at the price of PC games though :D
 
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Ulfhedjinn said:
I paid £25 for Lord Of The Rings: Online but it was worth every penny, and as Tom already said, I haven't really paid more than £17.99 for most games even new. It's good to be a PC gamer. :)
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OT: I still havn't had a reply from you over the old email ;) .
 
I walked into game the other dday

they were charging £35 for the new ones
if u give it a couple of weeks, expect to pay less, same with DVDs

Just dont go buy it on release day, give it a while then the prices will crash
 
Energize said:
Unless you are a hardware enthusiast with money to burn you aren't going to spend £900 on new hardware over that time period. I've had my pc 5 years and haven't spent anywhere near that much.
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Remember that £900 includes the cost of the PC when you first buy it - and I specifically said serious pc gamers rather than casual ones. Also your age has probably influenced how much you have spent on hardware due to not working much over the course of those 5 years. Even so I still remember you shelling out on a few things, e.g. Radeon 9550 and maybe something else before the 7800GTX?
 
HangTime said:
Remember that £900 includes the cost of the PC when you first buy it - and I specifically said serious pc gamers rather than casual ones. Also your age has probably influenced how much you have spent on hardware due to not working much over the course of those 5 years. Even so I still remember you shelling out on a few things, e.g. Radeon 9550 and maybe something else before the 7800GTX?
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9800pro. ;)

Neither card cost much though, both well under £100 and the gtx was only £105. After selling old hardware the amount of money you've parted with is little, whereas with consoles they become worthless by the time the next one is out and you have to keep the old console to play your current gen games because 360 and ps3 bc is so bad.

I wouldn't call people casual gamers because they don't buy the latest hardware or can't afford to, as far as I'm concerned playing games competetivley and building computers are not related at all, personally I'm not so interested in the latest graphics like some casual gamers, rather the gameplay. :)
 
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i'm the biggest sucker around i reckon. i paid 35 sheets for fahrenheit on the pc when it came out. good game but 35 squids.... what was i thinking.... :eek: :D
 
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