Thread: PS3 or Xbox360

Originally Posted by Auron

Guitar Hero/Rockband Series, COD, Halo, Gears of War series, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed, Sports Games, and then the fighters like MK, Tekken, Street Fighter II, and Dead or alive, that simply don't require it.

No one in my generation ever wants to hear "hey bring your computer over for a quick game of madden". Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who still think computers are just for downloading songs and homework.

On the PC I meant. Those are the only two PC games that I know to have SS

It doesn't matter if people have a stereotypical view of what a computer does. I made 3 of my closest friends go from console to PC, and they are happy that they did. It's a whole nother experience than the one you get on the console.

Where I live, people never do splitscreen anymore anyways. It's all "Hey come online on PSN later tonite and lets play BLACKK OOOPSSS". Yeah... As if one couldn't do that on a PC anyways.

But if you really want splitscreen, it's one upside of consoles.

Originally Posted by JussiKala

On the PC I meant. Those are the only two PC games that I know to have SS

Sorry about that.

Originally Posted by JussiKala

It doesn't matter if people have a stereotypical view of what a computer does. I made 3 of my closest friends go from console to PC, and they are happy that they did. It's a whole nother experience than the one you get on the console.

You'd probably make a good salesman. Speaking of which...the highest selling console happens to be the cheapest. It's proof that the vast majority don't care about graphics. They'll sacrifice that in order to get the best bang for their buck, which means you have an uphill battle when it comes to converting the masses. And speaking of bucks...people on consoles are WAY more likely to actually buy games vs pirating them.

Originally Posted by Auron

Speaking of which...the highest selling console happens to be the cheapest. It's proof that the vast majority don't care about graphics. They'll sacrifice that in order to get the best bang for their buck, which means you have an uphill battle when it comes to converting the masses. And speaking of bucks...people on consoles are WAY more likely to actually buy games vs pirating them.

But this is not the masses we're trying to sway here, only the OP of this thread

Sure, consoles are kind of cheaper, if you don't know how to budget. I originally had a semi decent dual core in my PC, and when I started PC gaming, I picked up an ATi 5770, which was a cheap GPU at 139€ for me. That made my PC play pretty much every game out there well aside from two or three that were console ports that required a quad core to run, such as GTA IV. That was cheaper than buying a console would've been, and I think I got a better result IMO

Now I've spent more money on my PC and there's no game I can't run at max smoothly aside from crysis 1 and metro 2033 and whitcher 2 (though I can lower the graphics in all of these to make them run). And I've still only spent 350€, even though I got some expensive stuff here. I just used some great opportunities to get cheap but decent hardware.

PC gaming does not have to be more expensive. And not to even mention the game prices themselves. On consoles, game prices decline veeery slowly, while on the PC, services such as steam provide occasional sales that put the price down to something very low (5-15€ is a common price during a sale, on a 40€ game), and on top of that, the game prices decline much faster from my experience. That's another point where you save money on the PC.

Though you will most likely spend more money if you are going PC. It's just that it's possible to make a gaming PC with less money than a console would cost, and maintain that hobby with less money than on consoles.


Pirating here is not relevant, don't know why you brought that up. Happens on all platforms, though more common on the PC. Yes.

Originally Posted by JussiKala

Pirating here is not relevant, don't know why you brought that up. Happens on all platforms, though more common on the PC. Yes.

Pirating is part of the reason why PC games hit rock bottom so fast. It's also the reason why they get low sales. It's also the reason why I can't resale my game if I'm done with it. Console games cost more, but they actually have resale value which makes up for the price tag. I can also rent console games. PC games have the same resale value of underwear. Once you buy them, they're yours, and that's it.