The Glade 4.0

I remember price being a big deal at the time. The $600 figure I remember was only for the PS3. It turns out the Xbox 360 launched at $400.

At any rate, a PC has a greater functionality than just playing games. Yes, doing so does require you to upgrade parts more frequently, however at no point do you ever need the absolute top end equipment to play the games coming out. Parts below the price break are sufficient to play anything you want to play for a significant length of time. On top of that, as I stated in my previous post, you are able to pay for computer upgrades out of more than just your "play games" budget. For example, I run number-crunching software. I have a vested interest in a powerful machines for reasons other than **** around to play video games. Some of the parts in that machine pay for themselves over their lifetime.

Everyone has a certain amount of money they're willing to pay on entertainment. That serves to limit how much we're willing to pay on a video game console, as well as how often. That same dollar amount does not correlate to how much we're willing to pay on a computer part, because in addition to having an upper limit to the amount we're willing to pay on entertainment, we also have an amount of money we're willing to pay on work & productivity, or on life convenience. Multiple pools of money converge to justify the purchase of a computer.

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Eh. I use a laptop for my personal computer, and the only productivity I do with my laptop is word processing, which I can do with the computer equivalent of a rock and chisel.

Which means that computer upgrades come out of the entertainment budget and nothing else.

Besides, I just like having a controller in my hand over a mouse and keyboard.

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Pretty much this, hell I don't even surf the web from a laptop anymore. My Droid does just fine.

Coro,

Form Christmas 2005 Rivermist bought me some computer games that I couldn't run on my current machine so I built a top of the line gaming-only PC in January 2006. That Christmas someone bought me Rainbow Six: Vegas and it wouldn't run because my video card was already dated, my RAM was too low and my OS couldn't handle whatever version of DirectX the game used.

It was at point I got out of the PC gaming business (except Civ II, III and IV).

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