MaxPowers666 said:
Because after spending about 5 hours looking for a new computer chair for work iv descovered that you just cant relax in one, they arnt comfortable.
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Nomatter what you say its impossible to get an anywhere near accurate number. I know dozens of people who got computers some custom built that would blow nearly ever person on heres just to check their email or do their bookkeeping.
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I got my ps3 about a year after launch and im down the purchase price, probably less when you take into account the money I made from selling used games. I go through about 5-10 games a year and guess what it costs me nothing at all. Between renting games and buying/selling on ebay/amazon and a local store I make back all my money I spend on games and still have a 30+ collection of ps3 games.
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The most recent example would be bioshock 2, i got brand new copies (How many?) for $17 I can sell that for more money pretty much anywhere I go. I dont pay subscriptions, my games are a hell of alot cheaper for me, peripherals unless your talking a mic its still cheaper then pc ones. As for the screen yes my tv was expensive, it gets used for gaming mabey 10% of the time and its something that everybody can enjoy not just me. So nothing about consoles is more expensive for me except the launch price when compared to a dirt dirt cheap pc, and that difference is very easy to make back.
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The ONLY benefit PC gaming has is when your playing RTS or MMORPGs.
Well you are ignoring my point again. Of course you are uncomfortable in your cheap office chair, it IS a cheap office chair. A $600 on a couch vs a $60 desk chair, which do you think will be more comfortable. It doesn't have to survive 5-hour gaming sessions, my god man this is entertainment, a hobby, not work.
"I know dozens of people who got computers some custom built that would blow nearly ever person on heres just to check their email or do their bookkeeping."
I don't believe you. I think you are exaggerating or MASSIVELY misunderstand what kind of PCs they actually have and what they actually use them for. I'd like you to name (if on this site) them so I can ask them myself. For example, the distinction between a hugely powerful Core i7 based PC with 4GB of DDR3 memory... but no discrete graphics, and someone who went to the expense of getting one with a discrete graphics card for gaming...
... which is what this study counts.
Why are you obsessed with "accuracy" when it is irrelevant. Gaming CAPABLE computers have outsold ALL consoles by a factor of two. There could be an 70% error and that is still a far larger market than Xbox 360 or Playstation 3.
That is NOT a strategy of bulk buying cheap copies of Bioshock 2 and selling them on... that is a particularly unscrupulous business. Where are you buying games in bulk so cheap and are you selling them as new? Hell EVEN A PC GAMER could do that, you don't need a PS3, just the source to buy the games cheap and a platform to sell them at a mark up price.
I used to ply the games flogging scene and I hated it. You searched for a good price for a game new but to get even a small fraction of the cost back you had to re-sell it so soon. Where is your passions for gaming? Do you see games as mere consumables? I have amassed a large games collection and I love to browse through a disc-folder to return to my favourites to play one more time. Can't really do that if you're re-selling and renting your games!
I get through about 24 to 30 games per year on PC and I don't have to go through the bullshit of re-selling them. I buy them for pittance and keep them FOREVER. Especially from those glorious Steam sales.
Your comparison is NOT equal; PC keeping games against Console's transient ownership model dependent on being a savvy businessman. Oh, and $10 to $15 DLC, that sounds fun. It's usually free on PC, AAA games more often go that cheap.
Have you not considered the benefit of PC's mouse-aim with First or Third person shooters? Remember, the PC pioneered these genres. Consoles are utterly dependant on aim-assist and still is no where close to what's typically capable with mouse.
Remember you can plug a gamepad into a PC if needed, but not a Mouse +KB into a console (not for more than 2 or 3 games at least and those mouse-to-gamepad adapters NEVER work). And the sheer number of keys on a keyboard allows such flexibility, it's ideal for classic style 2D side-scrolling games and fighting games like Street Fighter IV. Then PC's specialization in joysticks, racing wheels and so on, make it great for racing and flying games.
There is virtually nothing consoles can do that PC can't do better. I know this, you don't.
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