Sir Ulrich Von Lichenstien wrote...
You know what is really amusing. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people that visit this social network from their PS3 as they maybe... just maybe don't have a high powered PC gaming rig.
Only going to quote this part as it is a repeating theme in your posts.
You don't need a powerful gaming rig to play PC games. You might not be able to play on the highest video settings on every game, but most games you will. Only a few games require High framerates. Most notably would be the FPS games, and there it is only for the very competetive players. Stock settings on most FPS games locks the framerate at 60fps.
Any PC built after the PS3 and Crapbox 360 came out will be better than those consoles, unless of course you use outdated parts to build it. I can build and PC today for less than $600(minus the cost of a new OS), that will out perform any of the consoles, and it will continue to be better than them until the next generation comes out. And that will only be the case if there is some type of major inovation added to the new consoles.
Right now, I have a 4 year old computer that I have only made 1 upgrade for, and that would be and upgrade in Video Card($100), and it was better than the consoles when it was new and still plays any game out there.
It is a very popular MISCONCEPTION that you have to have a top of the line gaming rig to play video games on the PC. You don't.
The popularity of consoles are due to a few factors.
For parents. They are much better to have your children play on because they are limited to playing games. At least before the PS3 came along with it's web browsing capabilities. They don't have to worry about what their kids are doing when they are having their console babysit them. Letting immature people mess around with PC's is just going to cause problem for the people who have to spend their time fixing the problems that are caused by them.
For developers, consoles are much easier to code for. You have a set hardware profile that will never change on that system. Everything that is created for the console is going to be made to be compatable with that console from the day they start creating for it until they give them the spec's for the next "generation" of consoles.
For the same developers, they must create games that will work on countless different hardware/software profiles. Even with two people buying computers with the exact same hardware, the programs they run on them will be different. Those differences will possible end up causing conflicts with the game program, so they must spend more time making the game compatable for everyone.
Games on consoles are much easier to control. While there are people who will pirate console games, it isn't the same as it is for PC games.
There are many more factors, but listing them really is pointless and way beyond the point of this.
The point of this, again, is to state that there is
NO NEED FOR A HIGH END GAMING RIG to play PC games.
Thinking that it is necessary is just ignorance.