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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 3426918" data-attributes="member: 18093">First of all, the price of a console system is going up, while the price of PCs are coming down. While it may be unfair to compare the combined cost of a PS2 and PS3 to the cost of a PC, I don't think it's out of line, nor will it be in the future. By the time the next console cycle comes around, it'll probably be around $500 for a new one (with the exception of Nintendo, which seems to not even be trying to compete with Xbox and PS), while PCs even now are about that much for a basic model.I don't see how you can get a PS2, Xbox and a Gamecube for $625 until well after they had rotated out of the current console cycle, not just a year after launch. Also, keeping a PC up to date enough to run PC games shouldn't cost you more than $500, unless you bought a PC that wasn't very upgrade friendly to begin with. Secondly, even if your assertation that keeping a computer updated was 10-50% more expensive than keeping current with console games, you are still leaving a HUGE part of the equation out; namely, you can do a million more things with a computer that you cannot do with a console. That should count for something. Not to mention the fact that most everything that console games could do for the past two cycles, PCs could do 3-5 years earlier, and I don't mean a few more pixels of graphics. Upgrading a PC yourself isn't really very hard. I have had zero formal training, and what little I do know, I learned from looking over someone's shoulder. Plug and play. Almost as easy as changing a light bulb. In my opinion, console games are good for "twitchy" play (and the Wii takes that to a whole new level), while PCs are good for MMORPGs and RTS/TBS games.In any event, I predict that within 10 years, the PC price will come down and the consoles price and utility will go up to the point where they will meet in the middle and become indistinguishible. Likewise, ISP and Cable/Satelite TV will probably merge, and you'll end up with a true "entertainment system" that does everything for the entire household, work, games, music, television, and walking the dog.</blockquote>

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