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I already put a small tid bit of my argument into this earlier in the thread that I suppose Curious1 did not read. Yes I will pay more money for BETTER hardware any day of the week, as you said...to each his/her own! Price/Performance ratio isn't everything in life, it defiantly has is appeal at times, but is always negated by the fact that if I were to have paid more I would have gotten a better product.

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LOL!!!!!!! no wait......hahahahah, hahahahahahahahaha. Whats so funny? The only online multi-player listed was CS. Dude play BF2 and tell me your Wii or xbox has games that play like that. Ever played unreal tourny on a PS2, it suxord.

Few questions for you.
Can people with a ps3 and x360 play together?
Are games now devolped on a PS3?
Will future computers be based on what Sony or microsoft are selling?
What happens when the PS4 comes out? Will a PS3 and PS4 be compatible?

The PROBLEM with consloes is planned obsolecence. Not upgradeable.

I would think that both consloe's ond pc's will continue to advance and niether is going anywhere anytime soon. Sure consloe games look better now, why wouldnt they? They have pc gamin rigs doing there homework for em.

Yes I do have a consloe for my kids. Yes I will buy them a Wii.
Consloe are great for 3rd person games, sport, driving.
NOT FPS.

Let me finish with hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha!

Listen, im not gonna go list EVERY pc game i play, but for yuor information, i do play battlefield 2, and 2142, along with prey and others. and i never disagreed that consols werent good for fps..however, the graphics are still much better. im not talking about upgradability, im not talking about controls, im not talking about nerdy hardware specs, im talking about GRAPHICS!! didnt you idiots read my post, or do you skim threw it cuz your such an angry pc gamer at the truth? how could you not be angry that your paying 650 bucks for the newest card, 1500 bucks for a fucking processor! 300 bucks for 2 sticks of ram that usually just break. i would be, unless your mommies pay for everything in which you arnt angry about the money part.

Agreed. Nerdy pc gamers respsonce " LIKE OMGZORS!! THO!! A PC CAN DO 34389743 gigaflops of data a second than a consol noob machine can do!! :-( )

Just relax and enjoy playing games. Don't worry about what is going to replace what? It's a matter of what you can afford and go from there. As for those who feels little insecure as to the "Dying Of PC Gaming". Ask yourself this question "Do you see people bring their console (PS2, XBox360 or PS3,...etc) to any LAN party?" There you have it. Console gaming are mainly for kids and average user, not for hardcore gamers... period.

Relax and Enjoy!

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* Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (No OC)
* Zalman CNPS 7000B-Cu LED Cooler
* ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512MB DDR3
* ASUS P5B-VM with FragBox II MicroATX case
* 2x1GB, PC2-4300, CL=3-3-3-8, Geil Ultra Low Latency
* Ultra 550W ATX (Ultra X2 550-Watt with UV & SLI ready
* Lite-On 16x DVD/CD Writer with LightScribe
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What did i say...who cares the reason WHY the consols look better or play better "but but pc has stuff running in the background too!!" , well, no sh!t, which is just another of many reasons why pc gaming is just going down hill more and more each day, along with rising prices.

this guys got the right idea

What did i say...who cares the reason WHY the consols look better or play better "but but pc has stuff running in the background too!!" , well, no sh!t, which is just another of many reasons why pc gaming is just going down hill more and more each day, along with rising prices.


one thing about the cost you don't need to buy the $600 video card you can get a card that I would say is as good as any console card or better for around 180 bucks now. you don't need a $1500 cpu heck to play games $200 to $300 will have you well covered for any game. Ram also doesn't need the best of the best some value ram will do just fine.

one other note on the hardware pc's can reuse some parts like the case, or psu, fans and heatsinks, keyboard mouse, ps3 xbox 360 dont think thats going to happen

one more thing I have no idea if consoles use dx10 or openGL but id imagine they use something very smiler and you know what I bet they don't use something that is as up to date as dx10. I know dx10 is not out yet but very soon to be

My point is you are NOT paying more to get a better product you are paying more on overlapping technology. That was the first sentence in my response and you totally ignored it. Let me try to put it to you another way. You have a gaming PC, a Xbox 360 and a notebook computer, a MacBook Pro from your description. You can game and work on your PC, game on your Xbox 360 and game and work on your notebook computer. Do you see the redundancy? Do you see the IMHO wasted money? Why do you have the Xbox 360 and a gaming PC? Or why do you have a gaming notebook and a gaming PC? You spent $400 for the Xbox 360, $2000 for the notebook and I am being generous here $1000 for the gaming PC. I plan on spending $400 for the Xbox 360 and $1600 for the notebook, a MacBook by the way. Can’t you see that you are paying at least $1400 extra for practically the same functionality? Is limited gaming on the go worth all that extra money? It’s not about the price/performance ratio or better hardware it is about not wasting money.

Meh,

I like PC gaming especially since strategy games like Civilization IV is very unlikely to come out for the XBox. X3: Reunion would have come out for the XBox 360, but Egosoft cancelled it. Good thing since the number of sectors to explore would have been smaller.

Anywaste, that's just me. I don't think I need to spend money on two seperate gaming systems.

i'm a pc AND console gamer. owned an xbox since launch (6 years ago) and just bought a 360. also, i have a 65" HDTV which i bought for tv (football) and movies. i would own it without gaming, but games are amazing on it. however, my current pc (see sig) is nothing special but puts out better graphics than 360 already. madden on 360 is plagued by aliasing - jaggies galore. cod2 on 360 is nice but there is no ansiotropic filtering. it looks better on my generic gaming pc i built. my 6800gt can do at least 2xaa and 8x af on any game i have except maybe CoH. my pc setup with lcd cost about 1k while 360 is 400 (740 with same lcd and vga adapter). graphics are better on pc but consoles are easier (pop in disc and go). i prefer shooters, strategy on pc and sports, fighters, action (gta) and party games on consoles. console companies lose money on hardware and make up on software since they have monopoly. you pay more for pc but get cheaper games and user-created mods (hello counter-strike and DoD). to each his own, but consoles aren't way better than pc games. it's an easier experience and much better when friends stop by or when the wife wants to play something with me, but bf2 and cs rule on pc. not to mention, company of heroes has me drooling over graphics and game-play on my pc.

Your knowledge is wrong. Although, if the game was "free", you don't really need to torrent it.

Of course, to ask WHY, you have to first ask IF. And my answer to the above would be a resounding no.

Also interesting is this pervasive view that you spend $1000+ on a PC, and all you can do on it is play games. WTH? Can the Xbox360 encode my DVDs? Process my video editing? Compile large programs from code? Use advanced CAD apps? Etc. Oh, wait, it can't And all those examples are greatly helped by a better CPU, memory, hard drive etc. (The situation may change if the PS3 gets better Linux code, but that's another story for another time.)

Synergy6

Personally I think the quality of PC games (experience wise) has deteriorated over the last few years. It's been a while since we had a massive blockbuster, and even now, the time between blockbusters has just been getting greater. I think developers are not focusing on crunching out games for PCs, which is kind of sad. It's such a great platform to create whatever you want.

PC's by far outstip consoles with respect to experience. With regards to quality of games in numbers, I'm not so sure.

You must not have followed this thread, it is about gaming, not what other tasks a PC can do. Sure its a plus for a PC to be able to do all those things, but does it make the games any better? Of course it doesn't. I have a very good gaming PC, and soon I'm getting a 360. I've ALWAYS been a PC and console gamer, mainly because both have their own style of games that I want. Some people on here claim keyboard/mouse is a better control setup(allowing for more complex control blah blah), but there are console games that cannot be played with a keyboard and mouse. One good example are fighting games. Try playing a fighter like GGX2 on a keyboard, it just doesn't work. I also feel a keyboard/mouse is much much better for a FPS, each system has their own advantages when it comes to controls. Also, a lot of people on here are comparing games like COD2 for PC/360, saying that COD2 looks better on the PC. Even though I agree with you, I don't think your points are very valid. If you take the same game engine and turn up the resolution on your PC, of course it will look better, so games that are produced for both the 360 and PC using the same 3d engine will always look better on PC. That being said, I think the 360 shows its graphical power mroe in games that are exclusive for it, liek GoW. Even though I have a very pwoerful gaming PC(x1900xtx, X2 4800, 2gb ram), I don't think I could run that game on full settings if it was ported. It looks a lot better than any PC game I have played, and even though it will eventually be surpassed by PC games graphically, you're still going to have spend a ton on hardware to be able to play games like it. Anyway, consoles are by far cheaper for gamers, which is why they are becoming so popular, but PC gaming will never die.