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While this new generation of consoles will get tons of game that all try to take full advantage of the system. You can also choose to rent games instead of buy to save money. Maybe you should get a really nice PC without a fancy video card that normally would have cost you $500, and get a PS3 instead. So you have a new computer and then you have a PS3 for gaming that will last much longer, plus a blu-ray player.
Believe me. I tried to get into computer gaming. And all the cool games that have the best graphics or triple A titles are very few. Half Life 2 delayed a full year. Doom 3 was supposed to run on a Geforce 3, but surprise surprise, delay delay, you ended up needing a video card 2 to 3 generations after that. But due to the new consoles there have been a rush of new games that push graphics more on the PC thanks to porting, like soon it wie'll have Gears of War on the list, and more. But each time a game comes out that really pushes your PC it's so far apart your video card is already out of date. It's like buy a $400 video card, then next year sell it for half and buy a new one, over and over to keep up.
Well, you'd obviously be spending a lot more money on a PC, and the PC would only last a good 2 years if it was the top of the line video card and cpu. And then not many games will come out on PC that will make use of your video card. Sure there are games like Crysis, but those are like once every 2 to 3 years with horrible delays. Otherwise you get so so games in between.All of that and as a sales guy one time said to me, with a console the software you buy for it is guaranteed to work. And if you go with with a pc, make sure Vista is preloaded.
While this new generation of consoles will get tons of game that all try to take full advantage of the system. You can also choose to rent games instead of buy to save money. Maybe you should get a really nice PC without a fancy video card that normally would have cost you $500, and get a PS3 instead. So you have a new computer and then you have a PS3 for gaming that will last much longer, plus a blu-ray player.
Believe me. I tried to get into computer gaming. And all the cool games that have the best graphics or triple A titles are very few. Half Life 2 delayed a full year. Doom 3 was supposed to run on a Geforce 3, but surprise surprise, delay delay, you ended up needing a video card 2 to 3 generations after that. But due to the new consoles there have been a rush of new games that push graphics more on the PC thanks to porting, like soon it wie'll have Gears of War on the list, and more. But each time a game comes out that really pushes your PC it's so far apart your video card is already out of date. It's like buy a $400 video card, then next year sell it for half and buy a new one, over and over to keep up.
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All of that and as a sales guy one time said to me, with a console the software you buy for it is guaranteed to work. And if you go with with a pc, make sure Vista is preloaded.
Vista is actually crap at the moment and incompatible with many things so in my opinion that's not good advice. a pc does not get outdated fast unless you buy already really old parts. Personally I just bought a pc for about 550-600usd and im pretty sure I can get by the next 2 years just fine, maybe even 3 (also I have no idea how it would fare vs a ps3 but I play all my games in maximum settings with AA and AF at the moment)
All of that and as a sales guy one time said to me, with a console the software you buy for it is guaranteed to work. And if you go with with a pc, make sure Vista is preloaded.
Vista is actually crap at the moment and incompatible with many things so in my opinion that's not good advice. a pc does not get outdated fast unless you buy already really old parts. Personally I just bought a pc for about 550-600usd and im pretty sure I can get by the next 2 years just fine, maybe even 3 (also I have no idea how it would fare vs a ps3 but I play all my games in maximum settings with AA and AF at the moment)
Was the PC just $600 or so, what about the video card? You can get decent cards for $100, but to play the newest games with AA at high resolution would need to be a $300+ video card, which would easily be outdated by the next big game.
All of that and as a sales guy one time said to me, with a console the software you buy for it is guaranteed to work. And if you go with with a pc, make sure Vista is preloaded.
Vista is actually crap at the moment and incompatible with many things so in my opinion that's not good advice. a pc does not get outdated fast unless you buy already really old parts. Personally I just bought a pc for about 550-600usd and im pretty sure I can get by the next 2 years just fine, maybe even 3 (also I have no idea how it would fare vs a ps3 but I play all my games in maximum settings with AA and AF at the moment)
Was the PC just $600 or so, what about the video card? You can get decent cards for $100, but to play the newest games with AA at high resolution would need to be a $300+ video card, which would easily be outdated by the next big game.
I have a MSI NX7800GTX which came out in mid 2005 and can still play all the latest games at maximum settings with AA at 1024x768-1280x1024 (average monitor) and now we are in 2007 so I think you are wrong. It might not be able to play crysis or whatever in a few months at the maximum settings but my point is that I can still play current games at high settings with all the bells and whistles with the card I have now which came out in 2005.
All of that and as a sales guy one time said to me, with a console the software you buy for it is guaranteed to work. And if you go with with a pc, make sure Vista is preloaded.
Vista is actually crap at the moment and incompatible with many things so in my opinion that's not good advice. a pc does not get outdated fast unless you buy already really old parts. Personally I just bought a pc for about 550-600usd and im pretty sure I can get by the next 2 years just fine, maybe even 3 (also I have no idea how it would fare vs a ps3 but I play all my games in maximum settings with AA and AF at the moment)
Was the PC just $600 or so, what about the video card? You can get decent cards for $100, but to play the newest games with AA at high resolution would need to be a $300+ video card, which would easily be outdated by the next big game.
I have a MSI NX7800GTX which came out in mid 2005 and can still play all the latest games at maximum settings with AA at 1024x768-1280x1024 (average monitor) and now we are in 2007 so I think you are wrong. It might not be able to play crysis or whatever in a few months at the maximum settings but my point is that I can still play current games at high settings with all the bells and whistles with the card I have now which came out in 2005.
A 7800 is a pretty good card still. When I started computer gaming it was a Voodoo 5500, then a Geforce 3, a 9700 Pro, then a plain 6800. The 7800 would still be a really good card I guess. I wouldn't suggest buying anything new until Crysis finally comes out.
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