Comments on: Gaming Wars

By: Jarrett

Jarrett — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:40:44 +0000

I’m guessing the % of PCs failing within a year is way over the % consoles. Why is that not in the graphic when they are trying to prove a point of “unreliability”

By: mikeszekely

mikeszekely — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:17:21 +0000

If you only spent $490 for your computer, yeah, you didn’t buy one for playing games. Not sure what upgrades you did, though, but a new graphics card (and probably a new PSU that can handle it) might help, though.

Here’s the thing, though… I’m not arguing that a PC isn’t more expensive than a console. It absolutely is. But most people own a PC anyway. If you add what you’d spend on a console to your PC budget, a gaming PC isn’t out of reach.

And whatever extra PC gamers spend on hardware, you’ll make it back on software pretty quick. Services like Steam are always offering incredible deals (I’m eying the L.A. Noire Complete Edition for $7.50 on Steam as I type this). New releases are often cheaper on PC, too. If I go to Walmart and want to buy Lego Batman 2, it’s what, $50? PC version is $27 right now.

By: yue

yue — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:11:03 +0000

A gaming laptop from 2009 is still capable of playing pretty much every single games released today. Due to 90% of them just being bad console ports. While they cost about 4 to 5 times as much as a console, you can also do more than just gaming on it and are portables. An equivalent gaming desktop computer would only cost about 3 times as much.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:59:49 +0000

Infographics are awful things. They always are, always will be.

By: Romulet

Romulet — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:31:21 +0000

Think of the Rockband band sets and Collector Edition games.
For how the PC games are so cheap, consider Steam and Indie releases.