Why are new PC games so cheap compared to console games?

Because pc gamers choose their games carefully, don't buy all crap on the market at any price :P

Sordidus

probably because the demand isn't as high? or maybe they are on sale, like i got mass effect 2 for 360 for only $35 on its release day, with the cerberous key and everything

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Because pc gamers choose their games carefully, don't buy all crap on the market at any price :P

tomarlyn

hahah there's also a simulator for those things that tow airplanes :P

[QUOTE="sethman410"]Lol... and people are saying computers are most expensive. But actually in a long run it's cheaper. You're going to use the rig for at least 8 years without upgrading and without a problem. Unless you want to play to the maximum experience entire time, that's a different story.shalashaska88

As of April 05 the best GPU on the market was either in the GeForce 6 series (Geforce 7 series launched in June of 05) or the Radeon x8__x line. If your still sporting a 6800GT a or a Radeon X800XT you might be running Crysis with all settings on low with 20fps, assuming you have two of them SLI'd and the game is on 800x600 resolution. What's more the Core 2 line wasn't introduced till 06 and the AMD X2 line came out in May of 05, so you're still sporting a single core CPU?

Not to mention of course, if you matched the 360 the day it came out and didn't upgrade over time than your up front cost was very, VERY high, since the 360 was comparable to a decent gaming rig at the time, with a GPU that would have held its own against even the highest end GPU's on the market. The Geforce 7800GTX came out in June of 05 and is very comparable to the the 360's GPU in terms of capabilities, and at the time it launched you would have only payed the low, low price of $600 to own one. Prices like that cover an aweful lot of $10 off this game and that one. The going retail price of even a GeForce 6600GT 128 card the month the 360 launched was around $200 and that card doesn't exactly hold its own against the 360 and is just a single component.

PC gaming was much cheaper this generation as usual, but only if you had a little patience and didn't try to match consoles out of the gate.

It's not royalties. Without explaining that's the stupidest thing I've heard this year.

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