Gaming since the 80’s maybe you should get your facts right. GTA was not delayed because of the ps3…maybe you should stop taking what analysts guess as facts??….

Rockstar said that development on the ps3 version was a week to two behind the 360 version…Now if GTA4 was delayed for a week or two….it would of been the ps3s fault. A 6 month delay is caused by the developers and the fact they were not happy with the game

As for the Live problems and a free game. Sensible world of soccer!!

XBOX, Wii and yes, also a Windows PC; I can download/use ALL games for them.

>The 600 € figure was the price tag on the PS3 which i used because you have microsoft phobia… It is cheaper now but that doesn’t make a dent in the argument. If you add a few more games you’ll still have a superior machine against a dated console later on.

Huh????
Why would I have such a “microsoft phobia”?????
And why would that be a reason to lie about the cost of a PS3???
Why do you insist on making weird claims as if an illegal (downloaded) game for a game console will cost you any more than a PC game????

>Plus you can pick games a lot cheaper than 40€ (only not new ones).
So What? You already mentioned you’re not paying for them anyway.

What new generation console do you have and how many pirated games could you get for it. Let us compare with the ones i got for my PC.

“That’s not what you originally said in any of your previous posts …”

Any console will be more expensive in the long run. You are just made believe you are spending less because the initial investment is lower. Unless you don’t want to get games for it.

Plus you can pick games a lot cheaper than 40€ (only not new ones).

It’s almost funny how you’re trying to get out of this without simply admitting you’re wrong.

So now it’s only the the PS3 that is more expensive? What about all other consoles? That’s not what you originally said in any of your previous posts … and your still wrong, I can buy a new PS3 for 350 Euro (your 600 is horribly outdated, only freaks buy them at such a high price). And NO, not all console owners have (and need) an extra intel-based PC as well. Neither do they all pay for their games (this is not the only pirate site in the world). You’re just wrong.

For the price of your upgrades, I can buy a new PC(without all the gaming gears), a new XBOX and a new Wii.

And what about all your other claims?
(Hint: do some research before making such heavy claims)

“There’s a particularly stubborn myth swirling around cyberspace any time a new console is released, especially now with the imminent release of the PlayStation 3 in Europe. As always, many console gamers and PC gamers are trying to convince one another of the superiority of their favourite gaming platform. A pet argument on the console side rings that console gaming is less expensive than PC gaming, but with the PS3’s high selling point, does that argument still ring true, or not?

I’m assuming one purchases solely an upgrade to ones existing PC, in order to have a fair comparison. This means we won’t be purchasing a keyboard, mouse, monitor, windows or computer case, because all these items are already yours if you can read this. Let’s have a look at this supposedly massive price difference now, shall we? (NOTE: These are all prices taken from a single shop, it’s possible to get these components for lower prices still, but these are definitely realistic prices!)

PlayStation 3:
Console: € 600,-
Total: € 600,-

PC:
Compatible Motherboard: € 120,-
2048MB DDR2 Memory: € 250,-
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor: € 230,-
Geforce 8800 GTS Video card: € 380,-
Good 160 GB Harddisk: € 55,-
Power Supply: € 45,-
Total: € 1080,-

So all in all, purchasing a state-of-the-art PC gaming system that can perform exceptionally in any modern game and can display upcoming multi-platform games at better quality than the PlayStation 3 costs a whopping € 480,- more than the PS3 console! Hmm, that’s actually not all that great a price difference at all…
All of the console gaming arguments I’ve seen use figures that state a good PC is 3 or 4 times as expensive as a PS3, but the above calculation shows that that’s not true, a PC system better than the PS3 isn’t even twice as expensive! Still, an impatient console gamer might have browsed by this page by accident and think he’s found a bit of research to back up his claims, the PC does come out as a more expensive system after all… That would be quite the shortsighted assumption however, because I’m not nearly done yet!

In order to use ones PS3 console or PC system to play games, one requires… games! If you’re a PlayStation 3 owner then this means going out to buy some games for your new piece of hardware. If you’re a PC game system owner however, then this means you likely already have a sizable armada of playable games available – and you will be able to download many thousands more for free, many of which are excellent games such as ‘Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory’ and ‘Savage’…
These facts alone should be ample to compensate for the price difference between a PC game system and a PS3 system, but there’s more yet to come! There is yet another price difference between PC gaming and PS3 gaming – and that is the price difference between the games themselves, something important that aught not be forgotten!

The average PS3 game costs either € 65,- or € 70,-. By contrast, a new PC game costs slightly less than € 40,-. That’s a price difference of € 30,- which means the price difference between a PS3 system and a PC game system is levelled after purchasing 16 full-price brand new games! The price difference is further skewed in the PC’s favour however, because the vast majority of PC games is not new and therefore cost far less than € 40,-. It’s not uncommon to see an absolute classic must-have PC game in stores with a mere € 5,- or € 10,- pricetag!
Yes, the vast majority of PS3 gamers won’t be purchasing 16 games in the 4-5 year lifespan of their system, but that’s more than compensated for by the fact that there’s thousands of free games for PC gamers. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of PC gamers won’t be buying all full-priced games anyway, because they can get games later on (usually only a few months to maybe a year) for far lower prices. It takes much longer for console games to drop in price and most of the dropped ones tend to mysteriously vanish from all stores… the budget bins are always full of PC titles, not console titles!

Now there’s a single argument that console gamers tend to use to negate all these price advantages for the PC – and that is the, supposed, fact that PCs have to be upgraded. I’ve heard oh so many times that a PC cannot last for more than one or maybe two years at most, before one has to upgrade it’s video card, which is an expensive € 300,- or more undertaking!
Let me reveal a secret to anyone who thinks in the above manner: you are wrong! A PC can easily last just as long as the average console system, namely 4 to 5 years, before requiring an upgrade in any form. All it requires is some basic maintenance every now and then and intelligent use of ones PC!

As for my proof in these statements? Well my 3 year old PC (Athlon64 3200+, 2048 MB RAM, ATi X800 Pro) that can still play any current or upcoming game comfortably in high resolution at medium to high detail settings aught to suffice don’t you agree? I still play all the latest games (Company of Heroes, Neverwinter Nights, Oblivion, Supreme Commander (beta), etc.) and my PC can handle them all without any problems at all!
Certainly I do have to turn some settings down, perhaps leave my native resolution of 1600×1200 every now and then, but is that really so troublesome? No, at least for a console gamer it most certainly shouldn’t be. After all: a console gamer plays games at the same level of graphical detail for 4-5 years until he/she purchases his/her next console. So why would it be bad if you have to turn settings down to the same level of detail as a game you bought 1 year after you got your PC? Exactly: it isn’t bad at all, in fact the games still look very pretty in a lower resolution or on medium or merely high instead of ultra high settings.

In the end only one conclusion is possible: PC gaming has become less expensive than console (or at least PS3) gaming. The system itself might indeed be more expensive, but the higher initial expenditure is made up for by means of full backward-compatibility, thousands of free games and a significantly lower price level for all new and old retail games.
I hope this little analysis proved useful to any who were doubting between upgrading their PC or purchasing a PS3, or to those who had been looking for a well-founded argument to prove that PC gaming is not all that expensive after all. “

for the price of a graphics card and motherboard and the rest of the needed things for the latest games will mount up to a hell of a lot more than the price of a ps3 and 360 togeather so stop with the bull

also saying it costs more if you have a console lol

if you want to play a pc game online you either get banned or you have to go out and buy the game .. what do you have to do when you want to play a 360 game online ? you have a couple of options and also a option that give you FREE online gaming for 2 days at a time if you know where to get 2 days gold trials from

do us all a favour and have fun playing tetris on high settings lol