im waiting till E3, im sure microsoft is saving the best for last. still i will be waiting for a price drop eventually. and im curious if there will be another RROD episode again... i still have plenty of games to play on 360/ps3. so no Russian.
I find this post interesting. My laptop cost me around $340 or so. It can run everything I've put on it so far, doesn't matter what it is. I may not be able to run them on super high graphics, but every game I own runs very well on my cheap laptop. If you want to know what those games are http://steamcommunity.com/id/FoxPrower/games?tab=all take a look.MSTJedi said:Seeing as I didn't get my current console, an Xbox 360, until the price went down to $300, there's no flippin' way a $300 PC, a laptop especially, would ever perform as well as a game-centered console (which the Xbone, unfortunately, isn't). Yes, computers can easily outperform a console, but not in the same price range. And as a husband and father with a severely limited entertainment budget, a console is the best way to go aside from a few older games that will run on my under-powered $400 2-year-old desktop.
It's a matter of longevity, mostly. After a video card upgrade, my PC can now run somewhat recent games at 720p on medium settings for the most part (e.g., Saints Row 3, SWTOR, Bioshock 2), but in a couple of years, it won't be able to run the newest games as well because they're constantly bumping up quality and processing requirements. With a console, you know that for as long as they develop games for it, those games will run on that machine because they were made for that particular setup. Sure, it may not be able to match the quality of the same game running on a high-end PC, but you get what you pay for. With my budget, I'll trade the convenience of not having to constantly upgrade for a little less pretty.Rylee Fox said:I find this post interesting. My laptop cost me around $340 or so. It can run everything I've put on it so far, doesn't matter what it is. I may not be able to run them on super high graphics, but every game I own runs very well on my cheap laptop. If you want to know what those games are http://steamcommunity.com/id/FoxPrower/games?tab=all take a look.MSTJedi said:Seeing as I didn't get my current console, an Xbox 360, until the price went down to $300, there's no flippin' way a $300 PC, a laptop especially, would ever perform as well as a game-centered console (which the Xbone, unfortunately, isn't). Yes, computers can easily outperform a console, but not in the same price range. And as a husband and father with a severely limited entertainment budget, a console is the best way to go aside from a few older games that will run on my under-powered $400 2-year-old desktop.
Don't need the consoles if my laptop can run the pc version of those games.
My first laptop lasted me for 6 years before I found games it could not run. That's about the average span of a console anyway. For less than the price of most consoles nowdays I got my current one and can run everything as I said in my previous post.MSTJedi said:It's a matter of longevity, mostly. After a video card upgrade, my PC can now run somewhat recent games at 720p on medium settings for the most part (e.g., Saints Row 3, SWTOR, Bioshock 2), but in a couple of years, it won't be able to run the newest games as well because they're constantly bumping up quality and processing requirements. With a console, you know that for as long as they develop games for it, those games will run on that machine because they were made for that particular setup. Sure, it may not be able to match the quality of the same game running on a high-end PC, but you get what you pay for. With my budget, I'll trade the convenience of not having to constantly upgrade for a little less pretty.