Now, go get Dragon Age 2 for PC and prepare to be disappointed. This game was built for consoles and then ported to PC. Have fun with that.

This is why PC gaming is dying and it's very unfortunate. I have always been a PC only guy. So many great memories on the PC. It's no longer practical, unless you use your PC to illegally download your entertainment or just somehow get free [censored] to Frankenstein your PC.

If you are looking strictly at the costs of PC vs. console gaming, you need to look at how each adds to whatever hardware you would buy if you were not gaming at all. For me, the cost of my TV does not factor into the cost of my console gaming, as I would have the exact same TV I have now, even if I had never bought a console. Similarly, my PC would not be very different if I didn't use it for gaming. It is mostly the my video card. By that scale, PC gaming is less expensive for me. But it is more of a hassle.

I'd hook my PC up to the TV, but my PC is in my room for privacy while fapping, and I'm not going to move it into the living room every time I want to go from fapping to playing Skyrim.

Not caring about high end graphics is fine and that is preference anyway. I play console a lot and I think it is good enough for most games, just not large open world games and almost all RPGs. Having said this, you made a blanket statement on cost while not listing the advantages of PC gaming. Firstly, the cost of most games on most PC games are $10 cheaper, and your cost factor is way overboard, unless you bought your own TV for use with the console, you have to share the TV:

Advantage to PC gaming:

One can mod the games.
One can move/copy their saves and setting files for back-up, just in case.
Not forced to take updates/can remove updates and still play.
And an intangible; the modding/PC tech community nearly always has fixes and tips for issues well before the console versions, due to Sony's and MS' certification processes.


As far as cost, you can get a good rig with a nice monitor, nice sound card, speakers and powerful graphics card for around $1200.
By a console, a decent TV big enough to sit far away from to view, and you've gotten close to $800-&1000 right there. That's excluding the WiFi addons, surround sound and extra controllers and the HDMI connectors.
In the end, the cost of PC gaming doesn't factor as much as it did years ago when a good rig would run around $2000+

The one HUGE advantage I will give to consoles though, is the ability to sell the games. If one has a Steam only game (and now Origin based with EA), PC gamers cannot re-sell their games as the key code (typically known as the "Product Key") is tied to their accounts.

Consoles are also nearing a stage where they simply have to face the fact that they are nothing more than cheap PC's with outdated hardware and will have to pay just as much if not more to keep up with the new technology. So last laugh is on them.

Consoles are also nearing a stage where they simply have to face the fact that they are nothing more than cheap PC's with outdated hardware and will have to pay just as much if not more to keep up with the new technology. So last laugh is on them.

this game is a game most enjoyable from the sofa of course on a big screen. i woudn never again by it to pC (if i had one) use Mac nowadays.

Although for PS3 my game freezes quiet often. when looking at map or inventory & so on.
any fix on that you heard of?

this game is a game most enjoyable from the sofa of course on a big screen. i woudn never again by it to pC (if i had one) use Mac nowadays.

Although for PS3 my game freezes quiet often. when looking at map or inventory & so on.
any fix on that you heard of?

How does that make sense? I bought my 360 I don't remember how many years ago and it is playing games that come out now. Next year it may be a problem having to move next gen, but as has been said, PC gamers have had to upgrade several times while console has only had to purchase their starting system. And one console is cheaper than the cost for one of those new PCs.

They have outdated hardware, but devs have to tailor their games to play on the hardware if they want to make the big money... and then release the game with unoptimized engines on PC because PC doesn't have standardized system requirements, so you are having to spend more for the equivalent bang for your buck.

But, with the exception of point #1, doesn't this go to the point that PC's are more of a hassle than consoles?

How does that make sense? I bought my 360 I don't remember how many years ago and it is playing games that come out now. Next year it may be a problem having to move next gen, but as has been said, PC gamers have had to upgrade several times while console has only had to purchase their starting system. And one console is cheaper than the cost for one of those new PCs.

They have outdated hardware, but devs have to tailor their games to play on the hardware if they want to make the big money... and then release the game with unoptimized engines on PC because PC doesn't have standardized system requirements, so you are having to spend more for the equivalent bang for your buck.

The xbox is the equivalent of a 200-300 dollar PC roughly, you get what you pay for.

The same argument could be made about "thinking", that it is less work and hassle to leave any thinking or decision making to others. I prefer the choice to decide what I may do with my PC instead of having M$ or $ony make that decision for me. Freedom always comes with a price, just like the price of laziness in the end will be slavery.

The xbox is the equivalent of a 200-300 dollar PC roughly, you get what you pay for.

Here! Here! And one of those consoles just so happens to double as a Blu-Ray player.