Comments on: PC vs Console Gaming: Which Is Actually More Expensive?

By: ThisTestisBogus

ThisTestisBogus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:51:07 +0000

What was the author thinking? LOL LOL LOL
All I can say is this.. I bought a LAPTOP Dell XPS M1530 with a GeForce 8600M for $600 and had it for 4 years before it broke (I have had in Afghanistan with me where it acquired a decent amount of dust and drops and everything else) and I was still able to play COD4:MW at best settings!!! So your “facts” that I need to upgrade stuff every years or so and that life of a pc is short is totally bogus. Only hard core gamers who think that they need to replace crap as son as possible do that. You can easily have the same equipment for 4-5 years, and then all you really need to change is graphic card

By: SJ

SJ — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:11:16 +0000

Raid 1 in a gaming rig? Try understanding what something is BEFORE claiming something needs it.

Raid 1 is mirroring, it is for live data security. It actually means a quite small performance drop in writes (depending how decent your raid card is, and I am betting this moron was using the mobo raid.) It also wastes half of your physical disc space. Low end servers use raid 1, not gaming rigs.

Only the most expensive and powerful gaming PCs use raid, and that is raid0 (striping, meaning much faster read speeds.) Raid should not be in this comparison at all, as any gaming rig expensive enough to include raid will be so far beyond the Xbox360’s performance that it would be like comparing a push bike with a saturn 5 rocket.

The rest of this comparison is balls too, but the raid part made me chuckle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:04:59 +0000

You’ve got the NPV discount rate wrong. You just have to take the interest rate you can earn by putting your money on a savings account…

It goes like this:

100 dollar today is just worth 100 dollar.
if a bank gives you 2% interest per year and you put the 100 dollar in the bank you will have 100 dollar plus 2 dollar (2% on the 100) which adds up to 102 dollar

That’s what the NPV method is about. A 25% interest rate or whatever it was is a ridiculous high amount! If not you should definitely tell which bank or shares you have your money on

By: you forget

you forget — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:18:38 +0000

one more thing if you buy a gaming rig and use it for work

TAX RIGHT OFF MWHAHAHA

By: you forget

you forget — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:12:29 +0000

i think you forget you need a pc for more than just gaming..

1: work center
2: media center
3: you can connect it to multiple tv’s and run video off you pc unto them
4: gaming
5: education needs
6: internet browsing
7: data storage
….i can go on forever

By: you forget

you forget — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:02:10 +0000

you forget the simple fact you need a pc anyways so theres 500 USD you need to spend ANYWAYS

By: Nerfsmurf

Nerfsmurf — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Computers>Console

The computer I built from scratch has a 6 month old video card, core 2 duo, 3.5 gig ram, and alot of other good stuff. It costed me less then 600 dollars, I can run just about ANY game at 60 frames/sec. The ONLY game that i cant run so well is Crysis. And the ONLY console game that has better graphics then I have on my PC is Gran Turismo 5. The only game I have that comes close to GT5 is GRID (graphic wise). But if GT5 was on PC it would be cool. And im running on a card better then the consoles have, but its old, Imagine the quality with a 4870 x2, the fastest card on the market. (but thats a luxary to upgrade, not a required expense)

By: matt

matt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:44:32 +0000

Computer gaming is not for everyone. Every time someone gets a weird error sigh (so common with computers :/) that they go to google and type the error sigh. I had to do that several times to play games. I own a gamecube (for resident evil games and an xbox 360 to play resident evil 5 and some others. The only reason i own a computer is to do my work and play some games. Since more computers are used for business and not for gaming, then the pc cannot be considered a gaming platform.

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By: bob

bob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:18:02 +0000

here in the UK,
New PC games sell for anywhere between £15 and £25
New Console Games sell for £40 – £45

if you buy 10 thats £250 for the PC games and £400 for the Console games.

A playstation 3 will cost you £300

A higher end 8800GT graphics card will cost you £150.

It will play all the current games including crysis, Call of duty 4 etc at full at a resoultion of 1680 X 1050. In three years it may not be so great but it would still be usable.
Im not sure why you say the 8800 GT isnt that good because its one of the best value for money cards you can get and has the performance of some of the even higher end cards. since the xbox 360 graphics card is a few years old, its more liekly that its graphical performace would actually be inferior to a 8800GT. but hey, thats just a guess lol.

2GB RAM of ram will cost you £30

Some of your items in your new PC are kind of uneccessary and its seems like your deliberately trying to spend money on the really high end parts and parts that you dont need.

aslo your assumptions are a bit extreme. you don’t need to replace the pc every three years. im not sure what the $250 worth of upgrades are.

and the PS2 is still one of the top selling systems because its so cheap and still has great games being realeased on it lol.