What Should I Buy? Xbox or PC? (OP Edited)

[mangus]

I'm a longtime PC gamer, and recently I bought a 360 as well. It was good for a while, then I realized anything I want to play is either better on the pc or... well, not out yet on the PC. Now it sits there, and my dad plays fable 2 on it for hours and hours. And Hours. There is nothing else for him to do but still he plays it. Meanwhile, they've added extra content to DoW2 (free, I might add, why have people started referring to patches as DLC?), the graphics in Fallout 3 make consoles laughable, I don't have to deal with the thumbsticks for my shooters, and I don't have to worry about the fools on XBL... just the fools on the internet.

Problem is, in your price range, you can't get a good computer. or... even a computer, really. I bought mine for 900 Canadian Ruppies, then spent another 300 on upgrades, now it is wonderful... but in need of an upgrade again.

Obviously what you need to do is spend your money on an xbox and wish you hadn't later.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Now, I am building my own PC, I just decided this.

Price range - 450/600

Obviously I have a computer right now, here are the specs.

I can offer you this for about $500.

* P4 541 "Prescott" 3.2GHz with Hyperthreading
* Asus P5PE-VM Motherboard with onboard graphics/video/LAN (Intel 848P chipset)
* 2GB RAM (2x1GB) PC-3200 DDR
* 400W power supply
* Seagate Barracuda 320GB HDD
* Sapphire (ATI) Radeon 9600XT 256MB video card with AGP/DVI/TV-Out
* LG GSA-4163B DL "Super Multi" DVD+/- & LG GCC-4520B CD-RW+DVD-R
* Altec Lansing speakers
* Antec Nine Hundred Case (Gamers Case - see http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/387 )

 

[xChevelle24]

Alright, after playing around on this site, I've come to this as a starting point. It's pretty cheap; problem is, I don't really know what I was looking at :[

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saving/show.asp?id=1949723

 

[manaman]

I would say PC, as I love my gamming rig and have only played a couple of 360 games in the last few months. In fact I have logged more playing time on the Wii then the 360.

The down side is cost. A decent gaming rig is going to run you around $900, with a nice unit more like $1500, and it would be easy to (as I did) dump more then $2000 into your gaming rig.

So if cost is an issue, which it sounds like it would be practical to get the 360.

That sounds like someone who really needs to know what they're doing.

Now PCs can get sort of complicated, especially when it comes to cost vs performance, and if you know much about them. You see, if you DON'T get a custom-build, you will run a high price tag. I saw someone who dumped 2.4 grand on a computer that's BARELY better than mine (video card was a GTX 260 instead of my 9800 GTX+, and had 8gb of 1066 memory instead of my 4gb 1066)

Really I suggest you get an xbox and save the rest for something else you really want. I have a good gaming computer that I built for just under $1100 from newegg, and really if it weren't my main platform for video editing, I would have been completely fine with a 360 and my old computer and just saving for a car.

I think everyone that does a custom build buys from newegg. It has gotten to the point I do not even make a real effort to comparison shop anymore, newegg has everyone beat. Seems that every time you plan out a build there is a line where performance gain is no longer on a sorta linear line to how much you are spending. You have wandered into the more bleeding edge parts section and for every two or three hundred more you spend you get a marginal (like 5% or less) boost in performance. I have a habit of crossing that line and spending a little more then I planed to. But you know how it goes.

 

[massau]

get the pc u can do much more with it