What type of PC spec is as good as a 360?

To reply to the above, this is a good point. You could argue that games are typically 15 pounds or so cheaper on the PC than say the 360. So if you buy a game every month that is on both consoles, that is at least 100. (assuming you miss the odd month in buying a game and so on).

Argument that you need a HDTV though is a bit wrong, a HDTV is good for HD DVD for example.

Though you could argue that a faster PC is good for those of us who do more that just play games for example.

Really, I am not sure if PC gaming is so much more expensive (it IS more enpensive, I am not arguing that) than consoles. If you consider you can constantly sell your old GPU, and you go for the lower range stuff... for example an E6300 and overclock it, rather than going for the "by god, I just sold my house to buy my graphics card" technology.
 
The only time my love of PC's was tested was when GT4 came out & i bought myself a PS2 just for that game alone. Played it for a week or two & went back to CS:S.

I've got a mate that has a 360 & goes on & on & on & on about it. He's brought it over a few times, the visuals are pretty good, but i can't see the games holding me like WoW has for over 12 months. Also can't stand trying to play keyboard/mouse based games on a controller...grrrr. And sod £50 a game :eek:
 
The number of times I come across second hand games on the consoles is many many times more than on a PC.

This says a lot to me.

It says that Console games have no longevity when compared to the PC.

The is a lot of truth in that, but also its flawed too!

I still got my Sega MS2 just to play Mortal Kombat 3
I got my SNES for Killer Instinct
I got the N64 for Doom, GoldenEye and KIGold
I got my Jaguar for Doom, Wolfenstein and AvP

So, those games are holding their use for me and I love to play them still, but nothing else... The Ps/2 I have 2 boxes full of games for it and yet the console has been on the top of the cupboard for over a year, my XBOX is ok still cos I got NFSU2, carbon and MW for the kids but then at the same breath, I got another brand new XBOX that I gave to a mate ( Hello InsanCen ) cos even thats becoming boring.

My old Atari ST is still used quite often for SimCity, Turrican and a few others, and my first real 3DGames on the PC are still being used at least once a week... Doom, UT, Quake etc

For me, the PC just does it. Good controls ( Mouse & Keyboard ) are vastly superior to the console pads for FPS games.
 
Si MPS said:
i've always been about PC gaming, but since getting my x360 the most look in my PC has got has been Office :D
Click to expand...

Have to agree with this office and the Internet is all I seem to use my PC for these days. I have had my 360 for about 12 months and the only PC game I have bought in that time is Company of Heroes.

I think one reason the 360 is doing so well is 2006 was not a good year for PC games.

Although I think PC gaming will make a big comeback in 2007. Just hope my Athlon 3500+ 2GB ram and 7800GTX is upto it.
 
Of course it will.

Throuble is that with a lot of PC users, they get to play Game "X" at 1280x1024 or higher with FS/AA etc and have 200+ FPS.

Game "B" comes out and they assume that just because the rame rate drops by about 1% then all of a sudden, their PC is incapable of playing it?!?!?!?

Hell, I got an XP1700 and thats just as capable of playing Doom3 / Quake 4 without a single glitch or slowdown as any of my other PCs, in fact without displaying the actual frame rate, Id be hard pushed to see any difference at all with most of my games.
 
Orison said:
Loadsamoney answered your question right there :)

As for PS3, its GPU is basically an 8800GTS, so already there is superior hardware available for very top-end pcs. Purely in terms of matching hardware capability, the pc already has. The question is of uptake - how long will it be before the typical pc contains something better than an 8800GTX? While the great majority of pcs will have inferior hardware to "those with quad core processors and SLI 8800GTXes," we might consider that not all pc users are pc gamers, and pc gamers tend to have pcs in the top 5% performance range.
Click to expand...

Get off the dope mate. The PS3 has similar power to a 6800GT sli'd.
 
i find it really boring opening up a console putting the disk in and hitting start

I find pc gaming totally consuming its not just about quality of 360 vs pc, for me its about adjusting settings, overclocking, messing about in bios and benchmarking

Its all about pc modding, saving up for that new gpu and realising the performance gain from that new bit of hardware you had your eye on

some might say its a waste of money but, im an enthusiast, i spent £360 on a 8800gtx on friday and im just loving that performance jump and i cant wait for my next upgrade when ive got somre spare cash in a couple of months, but you cant really upgrade an xbox 360 so imo its just not as envolving, thats why consoles dont appeal to me

stinka
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom