Ulysses Knapse wrote:Mary Lilac wrote:Now here comes the lies:
Steam is cheaper (it is not, you suck at shopping)
PC is cheaper (hell it cost as much in electricity every year as it cost me to have PSPlus)
You have to pay for online (free online from electricty savings)
You don't need a lot of maintenance (yes you do, after 6 months yes you do.)
1. Steam sales are a great way to save money on games. Piracy is even more cost-effective, though illegal.
2. No one said PC is cheaper.
3.
Consoles use electricity, too. If you don't want your PC to use as much electricity,
turn it off. Most PCs only use around 54kWh of power per month when idle, which only amounts to around seven dollars for the average person in the United States, and significantly less than that when off or in standby mode. It's really not much. Only around two dollars more expensive per month than running an idle PS4 with a PSPlus yearly subscription. It's actually cheaper than with a PSPlus monthly subscription.
4. I've had my computer since 2009 (give or take a year) and the only maintenance I've had to perform on it was replacing the hard drive. Wasn't even upset about it, since my old hard drive was almost completely filled anyway and I needed a larger one. Never had any malware problems on it, either.
So on point three. PS4 takes ~ 170 watts under a full gaming load.
a comparible PC will take ~250 watts for 7870 GPU (low balling from numerous web sources), an AMD Opteron 6128 ( 8 cores @ 2 ghz) CPU takes 115 W, MB between 25-40 (VERY CONSERVATIVE), HDD ~12 watts, ram~4-8 watts. We will disregard disc drive and fans as "error", this puts the total power draw at 406-429 watts using extremely conservative estimates.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the above computer, even with subbing in a much cheaper CPU, will cost quite a bit more than the PS4, especially if you include the blurray drive and the required software to play movies. Just FYI.
Lets say 15 cents per KWh and 3 hours of gaming per day.
0.15*.406=$0.0609 for the PC per hour of use
0.15*.170=$0.0255 for the PS4 per hour of use
1 year of PC use = $66.69
1 year of PS4 use = $27.93
PsPlus goes on sale for $30 at least once a year. Right there you just got free PsPlus (and 24-36 free good-great games) just for saving energy.
If you use an actual decked out gaming PC, well you are going to be spending $100+ a year over the PS4 just in electricity.
Now lets not talk about things we don't know about anynore eh?
HDD wipe and OS,driver,game, whatever reinstall is something most users do every year, just to keep running at optimal efficiency (i.e. windows does/or at least used to slow down over time)
EDIT: Oh yeah.. 1 year of a PS3 on standbye @ 8 watts?
That is $10.512.
Tom's hardware did a
7870 machine testThe computer, at full idle after 10 minutes, with the display shut off, still takes 1 more watt than the PS4 takes when you are sitting there navigating the menus.
Oh using your 54KWh per month for idle power....
Thats $97.20 per year.