[quote name='yukine']You know, that was true a few years ago. But I just don't get it when the PC exclusives are few and far between. People are not just buying a 360 for it's greater graphic capabilities, but also for its exclusives, which the PC really hasn't had lately (not that there aren't any, Company of Heroes is
ing awesome.)
I really don't mean to "belittle" any of you guys, I just don't understand it. Even if I'm really passionate about something, I'm a total cheap ass still. Where as my girlfriend, will spend $200.00 on a
ing statue of a character from her favorite anime. :lol:[/quote]
It's called having high standards.
Is dinner at a nice restaurant really worth $120? No. You'll never see that money back, the food is over-rated, the waiters are snobby and might hit on your date, the price and environment might even be so cheesy you'll lose your appetite.
But does that make it any less of an experience your girlfriend will appreciate that you might say it was worth it down the line? Of course.
People that buy a $300-450 video-card, definitely have their reasons. When I see a guy that has two of them SLI'd, a water cooling configuration, a raid 0 Raptor 150gb x2 array, a standalone Xi-Fi sound-card, a quad-core processor and an LCD displaying temperatures, I don't think "Wow that guy wasted his money." Why? Because it's just like a guy spending $200 a pop on anime figures, $1500 on his car for rims/performance parts, $1500 in a game collection, $1500 on an HDTV. They're all something you don't need. No one in this world will NOT survive without having an expensive computer, but they also will be healthy without an HDTV, video-games, casual sex, friends, a fast car fixed up or anime figures. It's a question of what you enjoy and what you find pleasure in.
Some people are practical about it. They spend around $1000 on a PC, upgrade every 1-2 years, but are so heavily involved in the PC environment, they get their money's worth. For some people it's a collector's hobby. They want the experience of owning the parts just because it's a hobby they're enthusiasts about. We don't have sites like Hardocp, Tomshardware, Anandtech, Xtremesystems and guru3d for nothing. People want to know how good this hardware is and they're willing to spend money to find out.
And you might say, 360 exclusives this, PC exclusives that. I'm sorry but, 360 is trying to REPLACE PC gaming as a viable option. It's not going to do it. Maybe the Xbox 720 will, but the 360 won't. November 2006 was the month/year PC gaming already beat 360's hardware, software is only catching up.
Crysis, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Company of Heroes, Oblivion, Counter Strike Source, Battlefield, Guild Wars, Quake and any variation of it (Quake Wars, Quake 4), FEAR (Say what you will, it rocked on PC and even has FREE multiplayer), Project Origin, Supreme Commander, Neverwinter Nights 2, Unreal Tournament 3 (Consider this a PC title, trust me), Warhammer, Hellgate: London, Left 4 Dead, They, World in Conflict, Obscure
And that's just like, the last 2 years up to the next year, keeping it close to 360's timeline. There's some things you just can't put console gaming next to PC's for. You think Orange Box is even slightly as popular on 360 as it is on PC? Right now it might be somewhat close, but over the next 2-3 month period, it's going to remain strong on PC, keep higher sales from Steam-loading and people picking individual games from the pack. On 360, it'll be "Eh". Especially with it launching so close to Halo 3. There's PC gamers that don't give a crap about Halo 3 that were looking forward to orange box the way Halo players were looking forward to Halo 3.
Games like Oblivion are much better on PC when you have good hardware, because you can download custom mods, maps, texture packs and customize the game to no end. On Counter STrike Source, download custom made maps, custom weapon skins, things like that.