The reason I left the Console world and went on to stay with PC is because of somthing sony and also sega did a few years ago...one word: reliability.

I loved playing all the consoles you could name...

xbox
ps2
dreamcast
NES
N64 ect...I played them all.

But I was annoyed with how sega kinda fell apart because of the advancing consoles like the PS2 and the xbox..so one my favorite consoles (dreamcast) fell through. that didnt bother me as much as what sony did and has been doing with alot of their electronics since i can remember.

Just a few months from the release of the PS3 it happended *BAM* my ps2 died...for no reason... when i tried getting it serviced they wouldnt take it because the warranty went out. not to mention the fat of how close the PS3 was to be being released. the same thing happended to one of my sony Handi-cams months before the next generation of camcorder came out. its like sony gives their hardware a life expectantcy of like 4 years and then they upgrade.

I never really was a hardcore fan of the xbox, or the 360 so i never paid any attention to what microsoft was up to.

But there are some pros and cons when comparing PC and Consoles.

the Pros to PC gaming is that if you do build your own machine, you know what it takes to make it run and you know what you can and cant do as far as extremes go. Pc's don't recieve as many games as consoles, but that is where Pc's have the quality over quantity policy...Example:lol some people are still playing starcraft 1. which isnt bad. And constant updates and mods to many games giving better options as to style and customizable play.

the cons:PC gaming is expensive as to staying up-to-date and upgrading every 6 months for the next releases. Which can hurt in the long run. Consoles will go for a few years before the next gen without upgrades, so it is cheaper.

Pros to Consoles: More games, more divercity, and more options.
Better security, and have the "exclusive" edition to gaming that is hard to get in PC gaming.
More variety of "charactors" when playing online at times depending on the game. Higher level of convienince. and is an all around acceptance.

(note: from my own experiences)
Cons:Like i said before, Reliability...three rings, crashes.
Because you didnt build it...its hard to know what exactly went wrong, at times hard to get serviced. Dissapointment when playing online...



and that pretty much sums up my rant of PC and console gaoming. lol hope you liked the presentation...thoughts?

If you have the money then yeah PC gaming may be more rewarding in the long run. But for those on a tight budget it's not the best option as you'll probably have to keep upgrading to cope with the latest games.

Probably the best pro about PC gaming is that while the 360, Wii, and PS3 will eventually become obsolete, the PC platform won't (your actual rig on the other hand..).

ya, the console will always be the cheaper option

All I know is that from personal experience, gaming PC's are generally far less reliable gaming-wise than consoles.

I've had many PC's die, many friends PC's die, many parts go haywire, many programs and games refusing to run (often not because it exceeds my PC's hardware, but just because of simple compatibility problems).

Where you can go out and buy a console, and play all the games of this generation that are released on that console, you can buy a PC, but depending on whether or not it's any good (see: whether or not you spend $9000 dollars on it), you may only be able to play 3-4 games out of any 8 that are released for that month, simply because gaming PC's are far far FAR more prone to bugs and glitches/crashes than consoles.

Right now, for example, every time I die in Metal Gear Solid Integral (for PC), the game would crash to the desktop. I can't say dieing in any console game has ever made me go back to the dashboard.

I never got tunred on to pc gaming because of the persistent problem of our little friends called malware and viruses. "You just can't trust a pc with your identity."

well as i said before, If you know what your doing as far as a PC is concerned, you have no problem putting as many games as you can on it...my pc is running the orange box, Counter Strike:source,Call of Duty 4, and quite a few old quake games and i have yet to have problems as far as crashes...I build all of mine from the ground up like most pc gamers do...its like building a car only you can play games on it and other stuff. ^_^

I never said it was cheap, but sacrifices had to be paid...lol but all in all i spent around $950 on my pc. and It runs just as good if not better than any of those alienwares gaming pc's that charge like $1300 for a desktop. lol with that much money I would rather just get a MAc...Apple is gonna start Computer Gaming soon enough anyways...

All I know is I spent a grand total of around $700 dollars (over the past 3 years) or so on this computer, and it sputters and churns when playing Stalker.

Knowing what you're doing is only half the problem, often problems have nothing to do with what you're doing, they're due to tiny minuscule things that not even the worlds greatest poindexter could prepare for, like a graphics card not supporting a specific resolution, as the bare-minimum example.

It is, most of the time, a matter of luck. PC gaming is just too unstable and faulty unless you're willing to shell out close to a grand for parts, and most people don't care about Crysis/Age of Conan/*Insert extremely high system requirement game here* that much.

Also, lol mac gaming. I don't know about you, but I don't feel like buying a brand new Mac every time a new game comes out.

You know what they say. Upgrading a Mac is simple. When you want to upgrade a PC, you have to go out, find new compatible parts, take out the old parts, install the new parts, make sure they're working properly, test them, and if they don't work, send them back and fight with customer support for a new one. However, when you want to upgrade a Mac, the process is simpler; you go out and buy a brand new one every time.

SnakeTheFox Wrote:All I know is I spent a grand total of around $700 dollars (over the past 3 years) or so on this computer, and it sputters and churns when playing Stalker....
like a graphics card not supporting a specific resolution, as the bare-minimum example.
...It is, most of the time, a matter of luck. PC gaming is just too unstable and faulty unless you're willing to shell out close to a grand for parts,

...Also, lol mac gaming. I don't know about you, but I don't feel like buying a brand new Mac every time a new game comes out.

You Dohave to know what your putting into your pc, that whole Matter of luck thing...thats probably in a sense that the person buying the components is completely unaware of what they are buying, they just pray it works. you dont have to be a genius to put a pc together, you just gotta take the time to learn the specs...after that, you will know exactly what you want in a pc. its not as hard as your making it out to be..sorry but thats how it is.

and 700 dollars in 3 years isn't much to be expecting a decent gaming pc...just saying

Stability comes with quality, quality comes with work, unless you work with your system...your not gonna get any stability. And Not to cut you in the quick but im sorry that idea is faulty in itself...you can get great parts for half the cabbage your thinking of...you just gotta know where to look.

Mac Gaming lols, you should read up on the innovations apple is coming out with, obviously your not in the loop...

...where do you think consoles originated from? A console is basically a PC, just no main OS, has its own configurations and stuff...but when you open it up..its all the same.

Actually even if Mac released gaming hardware the game companys would have to make their games Mac compatible and that is not very likely for certain companys. You'd have to install Windows on that Mac to play certain games. That's the same problem with attempting to have a high end Linux machine for playing the latest commerical games.

As for fixing compatibility issues yeah you can often resolve it yourself with some patience. However it's still hard to predict that the same graphics card or processor will be able to take on next month's releases. I've often read those read me's to find a bunch of issues with different cards. And while that specific card may not work well with that particular game, with another it may perform fantastic while a card that worked well with the previous title may not perform well with the other one.

Luckily patches are often released though so this may fix the issue, or at times a graphics card driver update might do the trick. Unfortunately you're at the mercy of the software developers though. And it can be days until that issue is fixed. Whereas in console gaming if theres an issue the developers can fix it quicker and have more pressure as there's only one hardware platform.

I have bootcamped a mac to run both XP and Mac OSX, it runs smooth...just i hated booting back and forth...

this is just one of several of the games that have been tested to run on the Mac's new game applications...Im sure they have their own software version..but thats only because macs cannot read most Software codes ment strictly for Microsoft.
it mentions that as of right now you can play it on a macbook pro...but some textures and settings are not completely ready yet...lol but most pc's cant run on full either with out some major form of lag.

http://www.applegazette.com/games/enemy-...o-the-mac/

Spore will be released for the MAc on the same date as the PC version .(cant wait) Steve jobs is taking Babysteps to a new area of gaming...plus I use macs for Video and Picture editing as well...so its not like im just getting a mac strictly for gaming.

lol its funny how Apple does it's own thing whenever and whatever the idea may be...but they always seem to suprise me with something new.