ORIGINAL: ginjirou
I think you can assume that people who buy consoles already has TV' s.
I mean, you don' t go buy a new PC screen everytime you upgrade your PC do you?
And a nice 32" PC screen costs a lot too, just as a new TV does. So I don' t get your argument there.
PC' s need screens, consoles need TV' s. Same shit.
I stated that to get the
most out of a console these days you need a HDTV. Of course people will have a TV, most likely a standard 4:3 CRT that' s 5+ years old. But if I wanted to get the most out of my 360 or go for that true " High Def" experience of a PS3, I' d have to currently fork out a few thousand for a HDTV.
For a PC, I' d only have to fork out a couple of hundred to get the same/greater resolution screen. Granted, the screen is smaller, but a 32" LCD is generally too big, not realistic for PC uses and can give motion sickness due to it taking up your peripheral vision. Response times on those types of monitors are usually extremely poor as well.
When I do a PC upgrade, the cost is usually negligible (less than $100 - roughly the same price as a game). I don' t usually bother when it' s any higher. Whenever I do a true big " upgrade" of a PC every 3 years or so, I just buy a new PC and keep the old one as a second. So I guess I could say yes, I do buy a new PC screen everytime I do a major " upgrade" .
I' m not trying to argue that PC gaming is somehow cheaper than console gaming - it' s not. But if I were to currently Buy a PS3 + decent HDTV, it' d cost the same as me buying a whole new high end PC system. I' m sure it' s the same for a lot of people. The cost difference between console gaming and PC gaming is no longer as significant as it used to be.
I don' t know what " a little PC knowhow" is to you but keeping your PC at the top practically forces you to keep up with hardware news and you have to learn how to upgrade in a safe way etc. That takes a lot of time, I mean, simply getting the latest news on what to buy takes an awful lot of time.
Then you have to install the games, tweak the settings, download patches and upgrades, etc.
If you bought a PC that was specifically made for gaming, you shouldn' t need to upgrade it for at least 2-3 years. My PC is heading into its 3rd year and I' m running pretty much all games on high detail (6800GT, Athlon 64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM). Haven' t needed to upgrade anything except for a new HDD because I was running out of room (Damn you Lost series).
Software maintenance is no longer as complicated as it used to be. Most of the time you don' t " have" to update to the latest drivers/patches/upgrades. If it' s working fine, leave it alone (unless you
want to update it). When you are experiencing problems, a visit to the manufacturer website can have the whole thing resolved in minutes.
I think many people still have a stigma when it comes to PC' s. They think it' s still like the bad old days of Windows 98. XP is pretty solid and no doubt Vista will make significant improvements to usability and maintenance. It' s not as bad as it once was.
Oh and PC' s have practically no good games compared to consoles [:' (]
You' re obviously not looking.