Why do console gamers settle for so little?
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Well my labtop is the only computer I have and it's only good for some RTS's I play at low graphic quality and now that I'm in college I don't have anywhere near the kind of money to get a grade 'A' PC.
In comparison with the PC there isn't quite as much to do. I mean look at Halo 3. I think forge is totally kick ass while PC players have been doing stuff like that to an even greater degree for years.
But the consoles give us everything we really need to have fun. Sure the options are much greater on a high-end PC but a console is just more practical. We still get great games and we still have fun playing them.
In comparison with the PC there isn't quite as much to do. I mean look at Halo 3. I think forge is totally kick ass while PC players have been doing stuff like that to an even greater degree for years.
But the consoles give us everything we really need to have fun. Sure the options are much greater on a high-end PC but a console is just more practical. We still get great games and we still have fun playing them.
Why do you PC gamers have to be constant trolls all the time and consider console players inferior and are easily pleased?
Even if console gamers do get the short end of the stick, if they are content and satisfied with what they are playing there is no problem. Lots of people love to play XBL and feel that they are getting their money's worth, so what is the problem?
Even if console gamers do get the short end of the stick, if they are content and satisfied with what they are playing there is no problem. Lots of people love to play XBL and feel that they are getting their money's worth, so what is the problem?
Myself, I'm not really bothered. I play on a 360, and all i ask is that I get to play great games that work online, and I do. I don't need more than 9v9, if the maps have been properly designed it doesn't matter.
You speak the truth, but PSN is free and has dedicated servers on nearly all of the PS3 exclusives such as Killzone 2 with 32 players, MAG with 256 players, Resistance 2 with 64 players and just about everything else. I really laugh when people try to justify paying for Xbox live when PC gamers get an amazing experience for free and PS3 owners get a great experience for free, and they pay for laggy P2P servers, games full of kids, ads and a cluttered interface.
people are just plain wrong on the p2p shit, p2p will NEVER be as reliable as server hosts in America. Maybe in South Korea, and places with very very close knit network where pings hit about 20 or less. But in America, with our distance, and lack of fiber optics P2P will always have horrible hit reg. 150 ping across the country= shitty hit reg.
Because I like my console. And I don't like my computer.
And no, I don't know why. Console gaming just feels natural to me nowadys, but when I play a game on the computer I feel a little out of my comfort zone.
"Because I can't afford better ones, you poncy prick. Now gimmie some money."
And no, I don't know why. Console gaming just feels natural to me nowadys, but when I play a game on the computer I feel a little out of my comfort zone.
And, this. It's like a millionaire asking a beggar, "Why do you settle for such pathetic clothes?"MetaKnight19 said:
"Because I can't afford better ones, you poncy prick. Now gimmie some money."
Nice start off with an insult.Paragon Fury said:
1:You do not live in a country bad internet do you i cant play a P2P game online with out getting lag console or PC and i almost never get lag on severs unlike P2P.
-It helps control modding (why would you want to do that), cheating and pirating. (no it does not do you research and how does it control pirating hint it does not any more than severs)
-It is easier to use on consoles. (But not on PC)
-It costs WAAAAAAAAAAAY less than servers do. Even the richest companies would be utterly crushed under the burden of trying to provide servers for games for consoles, which almost always have an expotenially higher user base than PC games do, which means an expotenially higher cost.(XBox live customers pay for online so Microsoft should pay for the severs not the companies)
2:You do know Section 8 has severs on the Xbox right.
3:Steam has all that and it free, free to play online, free stats-tracking across all games, free large community events, free (fairly) reliable customer service, maintance and anti-cheating protection.
(And pretty decent game content as well same much of it at a reduced price as compared to if it were a normal digital download or in-store purchase) wait what normal digital download for the Xbox or PS3 you can only get Xbox stuff from Xbox live and PS3 from playstation online so what reduced price are you talking about for normal digital downloads
4:What level playing playing field for all their customers buy giving the host 0 ping.
I can blame them for trying this is not the first time some company has tried this it did not work for them why would it work for IW.
(Treating them like they're special is a poor business choice, especially since you stopped being profitable a long time ago) Realy why do companies port there game to PC then and why are valve still around do you remember 2008 all these games came out for the 360 and PS3 and not PC and then 6 to 12 months most of them got PC ports like magic what about Battlefield: Bad Company no PC port for the first one but now the second Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is comeing out on the PC i think they did not get as much money as they hoped for the first one on the 360 and PS3 there is money on the PC because NORTH AMERICAN RETAIL (note that is were get the stats that PC is dying and fail to add digital downloads to the total or you know the rest of the world) is not were most PC gamers get there games
As someone who games on a PC and ps3, I have to agree with the OP's overall sentiment but his details are a little sketchy.
When I was shopping for a console, the only choices we had were between a really expensive console with really expensive hardware that I would've thought superfluous if I didn't have an hdtv, or another really expensive console that had a better selection of games but bricked half the time and would end up being just as expensive if I wanted to take it online. Great choices right? If I didn't have an hdtv, I probably wouldn't have gotten either but we did kind of want a br player so we went with the more expensive one.
However a good gaming PC would cost more than both those consoles combined. So when you consider that, I can't really blame someone for sticking with a console. But I do agree that console gamers put up with way more than they should: crappy hardware and big IPs going unsupported leaves a lot of them saying wtf.
Then again we're talking about the same group of consumer that made Gamestop rich so, what do you expect.
When I was shopping for a console, the only choices we had were between a really expensive console with really expensive hardware that I would've thought superfluous if I didn't have an hdtv, or another really expensive console that had a better selection of games but bricked half the time and would end up being just as expensive if I wanted to take it online. Great choices right? If I didn't have an hdtv, I probably wouldn't have gotten either but we did kind of want a br player so we went with the more expensive one.
However a good gaming PC would cost more than both those consoles combined. So when you consider that, I can't really blame someone for sticking with a console. But I do agree that console gamers put up with way more than they should: crappy hardware and big IPs going unsupported leaves a lot of them saying wtf.
Then again we're talking about the same group of consumer that made Gamestop rich so, what do you expect.
Considering that I buy a console (360) for $450 (the Elite version),$50 year-long subscription, and $60 games, a console is relatively cheap ($560) compared to a PC that would allow me to play the same games ($600-800). So, yeah, I'm content with the service provided on consoles because I'm getting what I pay for. Hopefully, I can get a job and get back into PC gaming.
I like my good ol' Xbox and I don't need to buy any thing other then the game to play it at it's maximum. Works for me!
i made a "good" gaming PC for 250 bucks, the mobo, 50 bucks, i got myself i 30 doller 300 gig hard drive, i won my 8800 GT in an online tournament. I got a amd Phenom II X3 for 100 bucks and just used a computer case i won in a raffle at a Lan. a DVD drive for 20 bucks and just XP professional i had. and a 680 watt power supply for 30 bucks. almost everyone has a case laying around that they can use, and a good graphics card that can run most games will cost 75 bucks.
Hell, you don't even need that good of a processor. It's just that people go in inexperienced to buying a computer
runned like a dream... I have alot more money now, and a much nicer computer due to my new "job" But a computer is a very reasonable purchase for what you can do with it.
Hell, you don't even need that good of a processor. It's just that people go in inexperienced to buying a computer
runned like a dream... I have alot more money now, and a much nicer computer due to my new "job" But a computer is a very reasonable purchase for what you can do with it.