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Originally Posted by SpitFire40
Not at all... the money for the hardware is actually extremely economical. You can buy a 360, and a PS3 for the same price as a good Graphics card, new memory and Processor.
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Except the graphics card, memory, and processor will be faster than the xbox and the PS3 and has other uses that you will probably use all the time. I can't justify $300-$600 a console for something that will sit under the TV, occasionally touched for a few minutes a day. In the end, the real reason I play more games on PC, and even console games on their PC ports is modibility.
Take a game like Oblivion for example, people in the modding community for the game on the PC version have completely revamped it to be near photo-realistic compared to the version on the Xbox 360. That includes custom photo-textures that are like 3-4GB of extra data. New algorithms for calculating water ripples, sunlight, weather, etc. and inserting new animals and insects into the game. There are new characters, missions, guilds, storylines, armor, weapons, locations, even entire continents and unique environements. The entire game can be changed if you want. As installed, my Oblivion directory was only around 6GB. Now the folder is like 20GB with fan made modifications and addons. A game on the PC can be modified endlessly. A game on console...you are stuck with the game as released or paying for whatever upgrades that developer sells you on something like XBox Live, etc.
