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Originally Posted by BigBeauford
For all of this talk about how cheap it is to build this so called 400 dollar gaming computer that would trash a console, I'd be curious to actually see some linkage to this (apologize if I missed it in the thread.)
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If you look through the thread there are several examples, including about 4 posts back on the cyberpower steam machine. Also, you can typically spend 5 or 600 to have a much more powerful machine upfront, and you make up your money in the extremely low cost of use in a PC compared to a console. Every time you buy a console game, that same PC game is somewhere between 10 and 55 dollars cheaper for the same game. So, if you match console game for game, you are getting your money back and then leaving the high priced console games in the wake of the savings explosion that is PC gaming.
Really, if you go back and read the thread, you can see that the console is really a marketing ploy to sell underpowered
PC hardware, with proprietary software that keeps the user locked into the mother company for large chunks of time.