Louis Domi wrote:Starlight Burner wrote:Louis Domi wrote:
All that proccessing and graphics power equates to alot of money needed to be spent on PC...
Not true in long term perspective.
Please explain.
WARNING WALL OF TEXT IN DEPTH EXPLANATION BELOW. IF YOU QUOTE THIS, PLEASE DELETE THE WALL OF TEXT IN THE QUOTEShort term perspective, you can build yourself a good gaming PC for $500 on the low side or $650 on the high end. Again, you don't have to look at everything all pretty. That being said, lets go in the middileish area of the random numbers I threw out. Say we take $600 to build a PC. Below are some random things I found for good prices.
Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.50GHz: $319.99 @Newegg
Rosewill RBR1000-M 1000-Watt Bronze Series: $109.99 New @Amazon
AMD Radeon HD 7870: $165.00 Used @Amazon
Intel Desktop DB65AL Classic Series microATX Motherboard: $139.00 @esaitek (Hard to find, just using my Motherboard as a example)
Do not forget to get your computer case, mouse and keyboard. These prices can range from $20 to $350 or more. All depends on your style of looks or just budgeting. Also, do not forget to get Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.1. That way, you can choose to upgrade to Windows 10 if you want to for free. I, personally, would wait on WIndows 10 till next year. Windows 7 Professional N works perfect for me. ^ Total cost right now is $734USD without tax; however, I like looking at things with maximum settings (minus a couple things I don't care about). If you drop the Graphics card to a 7770 or drop the CPU to a lower quality model, you're in the ball park for the budget. Now, games on PC are really cheap after about it being out for 2 months or so. Because most PC gamers wait to for the price to go down. If you use websites that sell CD-Keys, you can get the price even lower.
I bought BF:Hardline for $35 on release day.Now lets compare short term perspective with console.
PlayStation 4: New $400 @local retailer
PS Plus: $50
1 PS game (so you can have something to play): New $60
^ Total cost right now is, $510 USD without tax. This is just 1 game.. ONE game (Minus the PS+ free games, that don't help the industry). Say you bought 4 PS games new, that's now $690 without tax.
This is going off if you bought it near or within 1 year of the game being out, as console game prices do not drop till nearly 1 1/2 years being out.. Unless you're BF4 or Assassin's Creed Unity.Long term perspective, this PC build will allow you to play games even the newer ones up to possibly 2017(Change the Radeon HD 7870 to a Radeon R9 x series, and you'll be good for somewhere in the 2019); however, the down side is you lose graphics quality doing so. The counter to that is wait for the newer Graphics cards that are better and buy them after the price drops. Which then you spent the price of 1 New Gen console to keep you good for 5+ years. Again, give or take on graphics quality, budget, and taking the time to learn how to put a PC together
(It's really easy, not rocket science).
Console long term perspective, you have to keep paying down almost $700 every 5 1/2 years for a new console, with 4 games, and the online fee. Now lets not forget the games you bought after the 4. Well, lets say you want to play your old games again, you have to keep that console and, hopefully you kept it in good shape, switch to it when you want to. Not that that's bad, but that's taking up space and time.
In short term perspective, console is better for pick and play but the amount of money you put in adds up well more than you put into a PC to just play a game; however, long term perspective, PC is better for too many reasons to explain besides cost efficiency.