No new hardware in 5 years - still no reason to upgrade

In one week of sales - with change from £10 I have Driver San Fransisco, Dirt 3, and Humble Bundle 11.

More games than I could play through in months.

My set up - an original Xbox 360, 5 year old student laptop and a Wii.

The only new hardware I can see myself buying is a PS3.

I'm not against new hardware in principle, but I am becoming far too accustomed to purchasing all my games for £5 or under. Never mind which has the better resolution or which has better DRM policies. I wouldn't mind playing something like Titanfall but I can't see myself spending £40 to buy it new, and probably another £20 on DLC. I would upgrade my wii to a wii u, but my wii already plays windwaker; and nintendo games are too expensive for far too long.

Maybe I'm a cheapskate, but i just can't see how anyone could justify the spend.

I feel the need to upgrade, my GPU only has 2GB VRAM :(

Wow. Cheapskate confirmed. lol just kidding. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I have to have everything when it comes out. Gaming probably isn't my most expensive hobby either. Football and Baseball cards probably take more of my money. If you can't justify spending that kind of money on something that's up to you.

PC upgrades would tempt me, the problem is I really just need a whole new system. My laptop can pretty much only handle indie releases, but there have been so many of such high quality that it doesn't feel as dated as you'd think. Wouldn't turn a gaming pc down :p

there is a pretty good correlation between the drop in my spend on videogames and my ever rising student debt

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If your laptop can run current games decently it may be fine for the upcoming 8 years or so. It's a shame Sony and MS didn't manage to put in serious powah. I don't think they had much of a choice. Consoles are no longer a financially viable platform for consumers AND creators alike. We would have to pay more than a mid end PC for a mid end closed console, and they are stuck spending millions on custom OS's, custom architecture, the distribution and marketing, the 5+ year cycle and all the other things that just makes them too expensive to keep up with PC hardware.
The gap is growing. Imagine what the difference will be 5 to 8 years from now when the next generation arrives?

I'm looking forward to the 800 series.

Horses for courses... If I can afford something I think I will enjoy enough to justify the cost I will pick it up. I got the X1 because I preferred the launch line-up and after a 10 year gen I was overdue some console purchasing.

I agree with you about the expensive Ninty titles,

I also agree that you can get some quality games with very little expense....totally see why you would prefer to game that way.

the ps360 are very, very weak - but they are still getting games. new consoles are hardly justifiable at the moment, agreed.

i like it when people save money but keep gaming.

I use a PC I built nearly 4 years ago, and I'm pretty certain I'll still be using it a few more years from now.

But that's okay with me because 99.9% of games that get released on PC aren't that demanding anyways. Plus there's a 30 year backlog of games available to play. If anything does come along that is too demanding for my PC (and I actually want to play) it won't cost much to upgrade. Gamespot just made a video of a $150 card that's something like 2-2.5x more powerful than my card I believe.

PC is definitely the best route to go if you have barely any money. Absurdly cheap games, and tons of free DLC and F2P games.

Myeah I feel with you. The next gen consoles doesn't seem to be slightly worth it. Wii u was a pretty good price plus don't realy care about the graphics if I play on a console.

Will be upgrading GPU if I have some extra money left. And some more ram.

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