Alienware on why PCs are better than consoles
An interesting(ish) article on videogamer.com.
Alienware on why PCs are better than consoles
An interesting(ish) article on videogamer.com.
He confuses me.
Question: Why should they choose an Alienware PC that costs maybe in excess of £1000 over an Xbox 360 or PS3 which is significantly cheaper?
Answer: Really the biggest thing is that one) the game experience but then once you see past the game experience, if you can do gaming you can do anything on a computer.
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if you're able to play that with your settings cranked all the way up, you're going to breeze through pretty much anything else, whether it's checking email, stuff like that
Question: Why should someone buy an Alienware pc over a much, much cheaper console.
Answer: We don't make consoles.
Think that just about sums things up..
Seems stupid tbh.
you pay alot more for a alienware pc and you will need to keep paying tons to be able to keep playing the lastest games. PS3 and xbox360 can both run a full linux distro.
how do install it etc?
i dont have either off the consoles but, what do you just stick the setup disk in and install it on to the hard drive built in to it?
I imagine there are guides on the interweb that explain that sort of thing.
Hello,
video on how to access an installed version of linux
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Surely when new graphics cards come out game devolopers will take advantage of those cards and you will need to upgrade your graphics card to play the lastest games?
surely that on its own is quite expensive?
you pay for a game console and use it for years and years and just buy games. £300 for a console versis £1000 at least for a gaming computer plus roughly £200 on each graphics card upgrade.
well... no...
How many games actually require the top end specs to be able to play it...
Hardly any...
Hence why they have options to reduce the graphical outputs of the game, to make it run on your system...
as above, no, because you don't need to constantly upgrade...surely that on its own is quite expensive?
Now really, price of a games console (360 as example) = £150you pay for a game console and use it for years and years and just buy games.
online service where you get berrated by immature american dickheads = £30
Games = £35 each
so say 10 games, that is £350
Accessories, = stupid money for what they are, wireless adapter = £50
and after a few years it becomes redundant and games stop being developed for the platform...
again, nope...£300 for a console versis £1000 at least for a gaming computer plus roughly £200 on each graphics card upgrade.
my rig cost <£800 and prices have fallen now, and i can play any game on the market and most of them at maximum settings...
plus PCs have more uses.. alt-tabbing out of game to do other things and a much better online community which is free, and much better modifications (i.e. the source engine)
no end of free decent games
Cheaper games
Cheaper accessories
Yes the initial outlay can be more expensive, but it doesn't become redundant a few years later...
My rig from years ago (from the 90's), can still play most of the games out today, just not at full settings, and you could buy that for <£100...
meaning that the PC gaming industry suits any budget.. whereas the console market you either have the money for it, or you have nothing...
I doubt that is true, lets be generous and say you are talking about late 90s. A top of the range pc brought at the start of 1999 was a pentium 2 and it's max speed was 450Mhz and it was very expensive.My rig from years ago (from the 90's), can still play most of the games out today, just not at full settings, and you could buy that for <£100...
It would have had at best a voodoo 2 graphics card supporting a max resolution of 800 by 600.
You'd be running windows 98 and have 128MB of ram most likely.
Most modern games have min system requirements far in excess of these and this was being generous with a very expensive 1999 pc. Going back to say 1994 you'd be lucky to have a pentium, you wouldn't have a graphics card, you'd be using windows 3.1 and 16Mb of ram.
To a certain extent I agree with alot of your points though games consoles in general are still much better value than pcs (despite the fact I do the majority of gaming on my pc)
Well considering that my eee can play alot of the games out today....
And that is of a low enough spec in itself...
just because a game states it's minimum spec to be such and such, doesn't mean that it can't run on lower... (of course, getting the game to run is entirely different to the game being playable)
lol seems like you were lieing then, and an eee pc completely destroys a pentium 2, the atom is a fantastic little chip. running at 1.6Ghz too compared to the 450mhz of the top p2 which very few people had becuase it was terrible value. Most eee pcs have 1Gb of ram or at least 512Mb again completely decimating the 128mb (if you were lucky) of the 1999 pc.
If the game isn't playable it's completely useless, you were trying (obviously dishonestly) to say a 90's for £100 pc could be used to play most modern games, it cant. I bet most games won't even start with a voodoo 2 graphics card either.
come on tell us the spec of your 90's pc and what games it can run.
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