consoles always have an advantage over PC when they are first released, just look at the original Xbox. It ran better than a 2Ghz PC right up until the 6xxx series of vid cards came out.
The realy problem with gaming today isn't the price of the system, its the crap games. The PC can be used for more things than gaming which probably only takes 10% of the time. For me 3D apps, photoshop, painter X take up about 80% and web browsing an email some of the rest which makes the extra cost a far better investment.
I would probably only actually buy about 3 console games a year and spend between 10 and 40 hours on each one. With my xbox I mostly used it as a media player but did buy about 10 games over a 6 year period.
Either games are getting worse or I'm just getting older and not really interested in games anymore, doesn't matter whether they are old or new games, they just don't hold my interest for more than 20 minutes these days.
The realy problem with gaming today isn't the price of the system, its the crap games. The PC can be used for more things than gaming which probably only takes 10% of the time. For me 3D apps, photoshop, painter X take up about 80% and web browsing an email some of the rest which makes the extra cost a far better investment.
I would probably only actually buy about 3 console games a year and spend between 10 and 40 hours on each one. With my xbox I mostly used it as a media player but did buy about 10 games over a 6 year period.
Either games are getting worse or I'm just getting older and not really interested in games anymore, doesn't matter whether they are old or new games, they just don't hold my interest for more than 20 minutes these days.