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But you have in the past. You didn't retroactively not have funds and not have the desire to do it.

You sound really lucky.
I've had issues not recognizing controllers, weird resolution problems, unexplained crashes, games installing but not booting. And when you try running older games the failure rate skyrockets

That's key. I'm sure almost anybody would LIKE a built computer, but in terms of actually doing it it becomes more of a pain

If you've already made one I'm pretty sure you have fulfilled all of the criteria I just mentioned

That's the thing. You won't pop a disk into your Xbox and have it say you don't have the right driver, or dll or whatever.

You would still need to buy a PS2, just to play this game that you presumably already own. Or if you knew a version was coming out later, with extra story and such... well that's just kinda a dick move, really, if the better version is coming so soon you actually know about it. And investment can only take you so far, what about money? What about excitement. Sure, being perfectly logical, you should want the best version of the game, but a lot of people will import a Japanese version of a game when they don't speak a word of it just so they can get the experience sooner.

All. Basically, the prevalence of people who actually build PCs. Not just people who would like to, or who would if money was no object, that sort of thing

Yeah, console games are steadily becoming similar to PC games in that way.
Still, installing the patch hasn't gotten as bad as installing the entire game. Definitely a nice time saver to just have a disk (It took about a full day for Final Fantasy X HD to install on my PS3 ._.)

They CAN, but how are you supposed to know a PS2 version is coming out later? Shouldn't they just wait for the HD remake that just came out then? For that matter, ANOTHER remake will probably come out, knowing Capcom, so why buy it ever

Eh, I assumed on the PC ports thing, but yeah, ideally you'd want to play the game the best way possible

You're not invested in a series if you don't spend a bunch of money to play it at the highest possible resolution? People can be invested in things other than performance. Story, for example, or in the case of multiplayer, they go where their friends are

Anyways, gonna test that first bit

This song always makes me feel good

One, PC builder. You can't compare building your own PC, because for one thing, barely anybody has the skill to do that, and two, building your own console isn't an option.

Anyways, most refined version? That's insanely debatable. I hear more about bad PC ports than I do excellent or even decent ones. And if you buy a cheap computer you're not going to be able to enjoy it in that refined state anyways
And... a lot of people don't care. I don't care if playing KH3 six months early means I don't get to play it with 16xAA, or that thing that makes slanted textures look better. I want that game at my finger tips at the earliest point possible

PC Master Race WAS a joke, but it's cited seriously by a lot of people. Yahtzee has actually said he regrets creating the term

On the chart, 650 seems a bit low end for a gaming PC. I doubt you can buy a prebuilt PC as powerful as a next gen console for that little. It's also kinda weird including PS+ the way it is, yes it's required for online, but you also get free games by the month (I beleive somebody calculated the value of all the games made free in 2012 as somewhere in the vicinity of 1300 dollars)

Finally, getting to play a game first is pretty important for series you're invested in, or games you're excited about. I'm certainly not going to wait around ebcause of the possibiltiy of a PC port for KH3, for example

Upgrading parts on a laptop is a huge pain, and it'll easily last more than five years.
PLUS, it's a Laptop, those are by their nature more expensive. A PC with similar specs would be significantly cheaper

yes

The absolute biggest games will still be 60 dollars, but a lot of slightly less popular stuff will come out for $29.99 on PC
I don't exactly know where I could go to provide a list for you, though a person recently gifted me the Lego Movie Game, which launched at 30 dollars, compared to the 50-60 it saw on consoles. Not the best example, but I've seen it with plenty of other games (including physical releases)vand if I find better examples I'll send em your way

Did a little math. Let's suppose you buy my laptop, which set me back 1700 dollars and can play pretty much anything on max settings. You you buy a brand new game every month, and you save 30 dollars, it'd take a little over 4 years to break even. Now suppose you're a little patient, and you can jsut wait for a Steam sale to get what you want for like 7 bucks, at that point you'll probably still be looking at 40 dollars for the console counterpart (45 if Canadian) it jsut sort of adds up, and a high quality computer is a long term investment, so breaking even over a long period isn't exactly crazy. And if you buy a bunch of 30 dollar games for 5 bucks in one month... you jsut closed the gap a lot more

Depends. Microsoft's contract states that their version of a multiconsole game can't come out any later than the first version. This lead to severe delays in stuff like Rayman Legends
Comparatively, PC ports are VERY frequently more of a second though, often delayed for upwards of a month

You do save money though, provided you like the games available. Even when not on sale, PC games can be as much as half their console price at launch

Take the Xbox down.
That sounds dangerous, what if it falls?

But at that point you're looking at games as a way to fill chunks of time, rather than an experience. There are plenty of free games that can fill hours of your time, you don't need to spend a little bit of money to get slightly fancier versions
And I mean, are you really so starved for ways to spend your time that you can't do something... else when you don't have a new game to play?
I dunno, I don't really see how you get more for your money by buying ten lower quality games that last longer over one or two high quality games. I mean, sometimes the two coincide, adn you get a bundle of like 15 AMAZING games for a dollar with a Humble Bundle, but those are the exception for than the rule