I have opened a gaming Cafe in Pune(GameON cyber cafe,shaniwar peth,pune) recently.Response is enormous.Rates in my cafe are pretty damn cheap (Rs.10 /Hr), but I don't care about them,even i dont plan to increase them in next 4-6 months.Initially I had setup of 10 Pcs. Their config was Core I3 3rd gen,4gb ram,1 gb nvidia 210 card,500 gb HDD. Looking at the response I increased 7 more PCs.The new PCs had config - AMD A10 5800k ,2gb ATI 7640,4gb RAM,320GB HDD.I have all Police Licence (License fee 400/Comp/Yr).Recently held 2 Dota2 tournaments. Response was good.Got 3.5 MBPS optic fiber symmetric internet connection.
These are all my cafe's pros.....as far as drawbacks are concerned....following are my cafe's cons
I spent 25k on each comps (i.e roughly around 4.5 lac on total setup) but 15k on whole cafe's furniture...bought furniture from one closed cyber cafe & redeveloped it...heh.....got normal plastic chairs....no fancy interiors ..nothing
but true games don't give a damn to such things...today may cafe is always crowded with gamer...some times waiting of 1-2 hours..they look at comps,services that i offer & not the furniture....if the wanted good furniture they could have stayed at home instead....
as far as i know ,No other cafe in my area have better comps,better internet connection...& on top of that not a single cyber cafe in my area have per hour rates Rs10
so....things just worked for me...
if anyone require any help in starting cyber cafe i would love to help....