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Originally Posted by AJ!
Also many people would rather spend £300 on a ps3 then £3000 on a gaming pc 
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Starting PC Price - Including all peripherals such as keyboard/mouse/surround sound/monitor. Usually $2000-3000 if you're going for one of those masturbational high performance rigs built for you. A self built high performance is usually around $1500. A self buil mid range, (like for me) can be and often is as low as $600 measily dollars. Parts failure or hardware damage can be solved by simply ordering a new part and installing it.
How about our console for comparison?
Average Price - $400-$500 dollars for the console itself and a controller. Just those two.
You have to PAY to use the console online. (Awesome, paying to the internet connection you ALREADY pay for.)
Consoles only play certain approved games and some music and DVDs. HD-DVD is available but usually leads to massive price markups. (A computer can do all of these things with more options, all with built in HD functionality at no extra cost.)
Console hard drives are INSANELY overpriced. They're usually 300+ dollars more than a typical PC hard drive. How about the games? Which are 10-20 dollars more than a PC title?
Parts failure? You're boned. Send the whole console back to get fixed and hope you get it back within the next month only to have it fail again in another few months.
If you wanted to play all console games available, you would have to buy all 3 systems. Which would cost you well over a thousand dollars. A PC is a single system, all software is compatible with it by nature. Don't even bother arguing about the backwards compatibility. The PC wins no contest there.
Their's a notion that PC's are "more expensive" that I just can't understand. Sure PCs are expensive. But that's an immediete short term cost. In the long run a PC ALWAYS pays for itself. Especially considering all of the equipment it will usually come with. Compared to this, consoles are a scam. The short term cost is low basically to fool you into thinking it's cheaper. The reality is you only get graphics per dollar value. It comes at the cost of EVERYTHING ELSE.
