PC gaming expense ?

I really don't get how people can possibly argue that PC Gaming is not expensive, assuming your performing everything completely legit, no pirating, to buy a pc brand new with everything required e.g. monitor, speakers and to play at decent graphical settings your looking at atleast £700. Then factor in the price of games which are little different from their console counterparts.

With a console your initial input is a Console (PS3 my preference) at £270 and an HD TV (40" for £400, but obviously from 19" up at very low prices). Factor in a monthly charge for broadband and much more regular upgrades and I completely fail to see how you can possibly argue it is comparable to console gaming
 
Jono8 said:
I don't know. I have always found the ps3 to have terrible loading times.
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yeah it does have long loading times due to the very slow blu ray player but its not that bad.

Oizu said:
I really don't get how people can possibly argue that PC Gaming is not expensive, assuming your performing everything completely legit, no pirating, to buy a pc brand new with everything required e.g. monitor, speakers and to play at decent graphical settings your looking at atleast £700. Then factor in the price of games which are little different from their console counterparts.

With a console your initial input is a Console (PS3 my preference) at £270 and an HD TV (40" for £400, but obviously from 19" up at very low prices). Factor in a monthly charge for broadband and much more regular upgrades and I completely fail to see how you can possibly argue it is comparable to console gaming
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so 700 for a pc vs 670 for a ps3 setup? you can make £30 from only 2 games that are about £15 cheaper on pc. imagine in the long term... your broadband comment doesnt make any sense.
 
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Oizu said:
I really don't get how people can possibly argue that PC Gaming is not expensive, assuming your performing everything completely legit, no pirating, to buy a pc brand new with everything required e.g. monitor, speakers and to play at decent graphical settings your looking at atleast £700. Then factor in the price of games which are little different from their console counterparts.

With a console your initial input is a Console (PS3 my preference) at £270 and an HD TV (40" for £400, but obviously from 19" up at very low prices). Factor in a monthly charge for broadband and much more regular upgrades and I completely fail to see how you can possibly argue it is comparable to console gaming
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It's cheaper because if you have a console you still need a PC to do other things so once you factor in the cost of buying your average family PC (£400'ish), a console, good TV etc. then it's only marginly more expensive, and it's worth the extra cash.

Duran said:
your broadband comment doesnt make any sense.
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Indeed, you still have to pay the internet bill on a console :confused:
 
shauncr91 said:
It's cheaper because if you have a console you still need a PC to do other things so once you factor in the cost of buying your average family PC (£400'ish), a console, good TV etc. then it's only marginly more expensive, and it's worth the extra cash.
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thats one of the biggest reasons that people rarely mention. everybody needs a pc so how about you put some extra money into it so it can play games as well? plus in the end you get pc that is a pleasure to work with in every day tasks. console setup + pc for every day tasks is much more expensive than a gaming pc.
 
Duran said:
yeah it does have long loading times due to the very slow blu ray player but its not that bad.



so 700 for a pc vs 670 for a ps3 setup? you can make £30 from only 2 games that are about £15 cheaper on pc. imagine in the long term... your broadband comment doesnt make any sense.
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It's pretty bad, and i only have 7200rpm drives!
 
Oizu said:
I really don't get how people can possibly argue that PC Gaming is not expensive, assuming your performing everything completely legit, no pirating, to buy a pc brand new with everything required e.g. monitor, speakers and to play at decent graphical settings your looking at atleast £700. Then factor in the price of games which are little different from their console counterparts.

With a console your initial input is a Console (PS3 my preference) at £270 and an HD TV (40" for £400, but obviously from 19" up at very low prices). Factor in a monthly charge for broadband and much more regular upgrades and I completely fail to see how you can possibly argue it is comparable to console gaming
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This is a serious post?? How many console gamers don't have a monitor, speakers and broadband anyway?

Lets take 2 situations over 5 years

Console:
TV: £400
PS3: £270 or £180 for Xbox360
Rubbish PC: £450
PS3 online: Free £200 for Xbox 360's online

So that's £1120 for PS3 or £1230 for Xbox360 (assuming they don't break)

PC:
PC: £700 + £100 for new graphics card half way through the 5 years - maybe not even that if you are selling the old one

So thats £800, and you have a nice PC, will probably spend less on games and you get all the advantages of PC gaming. Even if you insist on a £400 TV as well, it's still pretty much the same price... Who cares if over 5 years, the PC is £30 more including the TV... Heck who cares if it's £300 more... Over 5 years, you can easily rack up 2000 hours, so £300 more is only 15p per hour.
 
malc30 said:
40 inch HD Telly + 360 120gig/Games around a Grand with everything.
My PC E6600 @3.4ghz + 4890 + 4gig + Benq/Games around 500 quid. Sorry what was your Question again ? :p
On top of the above when I am not gaming my 360 sits dead where as with my PC I use that to Capture pasty for the Royal Smashing. :D
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Most households have a TV, we can't really make that a cost of playing console games, just like you can't really use the cost of the entire PC - just the parts of the PC that make it a "gaming" one.
 
Killerkebab said:
Most households have a TV, we can't really make that a cost of playing console games, just like you can't really use the cost of the entire PC - just the parts of the PC that make it a "gaming" one.
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The only reason I got the HD telly was for the 360 & the only reason I got my PC was to game.
I can only give my personal experience & that is how it is.
 
Killerkebab said:
Most households have a TV, we can't really make that a cost of playing console games, just like you can't really use the cost of the entire PC - just the parts of the PC that make it a "gaming" one.
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If I lived alone I wouldn't have a TV for anything else other than to play consoles on.
 
My PC that i failed to sell for £350 can run BC2 with ease. £1500 is a ridiculous amount to spend on any PC in my opinion, unless you;re a benchtester or competitive overclocker.

But someone else said it on page one. The argument is old, and it happens here at least twice a week.
 
Well most people have a PC so how you should look at it the only item in you're PC that is Gaming hardware is the grahpics card so £250 card is like buying a box n lets face it everyone has a PC.. unless you're a cave man/woman.
 
I think the argument that most houses have a PC already that you could just buy a graphics card for is partly flawed. A typical PC you would find in someones house might have a 200w PSU, 1gig RAM and a single-core CPU or maybe a 2.2GHZ dual-core if you're lucky.
 
mame said:
I think the argument that most houses have a PC already that you could just buy a graphics card for is partly flawed. A typical PC you would find in someones house might have a 200w PSU, 1gig RAM and a single-core CPU or maybe a 2.2GHZ dual-core if you're lucky.
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lol, where did you even get that from?
 
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