40k for a PC
indian user pirating games - playing alone - struggling with crack and all sort of virus issues
>6 months later comes another hardware crunching game - user pirates the same and cant run it - drm etc etc on it - waits and waits for a crack - later gets a crack for it - installs it on the computer - game runs like crap at low res low graphics - eu plays the game and complains everywhere as to why his game runs slow - keeps updating drivers and crap - runs out of hdd space as he has downloaded many games that he plans to play when he buys a new computer
40k for PS4
user buys a game - puts it into the console - plays it the way its supposed to be played - plays it with friends and people online - 4 years later come an awesome game - user buys it and plays straightaway - plays it the way its supposed to be played - also plays it online - plays it/other games remotely on his PS Vita[Can you do that on PC?? I guess not]- same game gets released for PC and the PC user runs here and there to upgrade his PC and ends up buying another 40k computer.
IMO PC is good for PC exclusives - rpg's[aoe type] - fps etc
Console is good for Console Exclusives - platformeres - fps - 3ps - action - fighters - racers - car combat - sports - rythm games - rpg - [final fantasy etc type]
A. More like 2/3 yrs later, the last game to truly tax the GPU was Metro, and now C3, so not 6 months.
B. 99.99% of games cr@cked on released day, only game so far that had not been so was Splinter Cell(forgot which one) and HAWX II.
C. XBox piracy is more rampant than PC, all xbox games are released 2-3 months before launch date and its extremely easy to crack consoles, one time process(hard mod) and all games will run fine.
D. Right now, to play 99% of PC games at high/very high quality @ 1080P you need a 7870GPU, a setup containing the same can be made for 50k, note, this contains the price of the monitor as well.
E. "Updating drivers is cr@p," only a true noob will say this, someone who probably doesn't even know how to create a shortcut on desktop. Cause for the past 2 yrs I had been updating my GTX580 driver in an one click process, download drivers, update, and that's it, no issues, no clean up, nothing, the problem is with laptop GPUs, desktop GPU updating is pretty much streamlined now.
Now make a calculation, x360 online pass costs 400/-
Now a GPU like 7870 will run fine for 2yrs, so that's about 7.2k cost for live(now rumor is PS3 will also use this, but lets skip it for now).
Price difference between PC and Console games on launch day is: 1.5k avg, lets say I play 15 games per year(I play a lot more), now in 2 yrs that's about 45000/-
Total cost overhead of Console vs PC in two years is 45+7.2~52k
So you are paying for the console(current price), 18k+52k=70k(total period of two years)
Total cost for a PC~50k, lets go higher say, 70k, for that I can give you a rig with FX8350, 7950 and 8GB RAM, a system that will breeze through all PC games @ 1080P, and do not forget the quality.
Now as people are saying next gen console games will look better, I agree, but as long as PC games remain priced like this in India, a PC user can either save 20k(if he goes for a 7870 based rig) or he can even out at 70k(7950) and enjoy games, and use his PC for normal tasks as well.
Now you may ask what about after 2 yrs, but you see, now the systems have broken even, and any further savings on game prices can but put towards a GPU and still make a profit, say we go with 15 games plan, with each game costing 1.5k less he can save 22500/- per year, he can either add a new GPU(which will serve him again for two years), costing 16k(7870 class) and save cash or he could add a 20k(7950 class) GPU for max eyecandy, and the next year, its all profit(no GPU purchases needed, so all game savings are turned to profit).
And contrary to popular belief, the GPU is the only part that gets outdated, once every two years, the rest is ok for 3-5yrs easy, and if its a gaming system 6yrs+
And final salt to the wounds, that price of the PC includes the monitor as well.
So final conclusion is this, a console incurs additional overhead of 1.5k*n in India, n being the number of games per year, so whatever advantage of price the console has over PC or hardware etc all gets trumped by that.
Only reason a person should buy a console in India is for the exclusives only, not to mention FPS/TPS etc are pure hell using a controller. Shadowgun had a cross platform architecture(I think), microsoft never tried it with another game, for a very good reason.
