I read Adole's take on buying the Xbox360 and I want to try to convince him to not do it before it is too late .. I used to think that way too.
The Xbox360 have ok games, true .. but the problem is that the same game will come to the computer .. with special additions. I would feel cheated if I spend a lot of money to buy the 360 and then they release an even better version of the game for the computer ... stupid Microsoft is doing this all the time now. They'll probably do the same to Fable 2 soon too. If you remember Fable I and Halo were very popular for the Xbox then they released the computer version. Now it is Jade Empire. So why buy the 360 when you can just use the money to upgrade your graphic card and play those games on a computer ?
The lag issue when playing online will still be there regardless of if you are using a computer or the Xbox360 to play .. cause the lag is caused by the internet line and not the console/PC. Unless of course you don't unblock the firewall and do port forwading for the PC .. then the game will lag online but that can be easily fixed.
Besides, with a good PC you'll get better graphics than a 360 simply because both systems are
essentially the same .. the 360 is built like a closed system computer whereas the computer is constantly upgradable. The truth is that some of the newer graphic cards out on the market today will give perfomance that beats the 360 and even the PS3 flat out ! Unlike the olden days of the PS and PS2, computer technology has allready caught up and overtaken the console technology. The only reason to buy a console nowadays is not because the "graphics will look good" (the same graphic will look better on a PC)but simply because the games that you want to play are only for the console and also the hassle of not having to install a game to play it (though nowaday even console games need installation)
You may think that the graphics for the console looks better than a computer with a new graphics card but the reason for that is simply that the TV has a 640x480 only .. the graphics looks "nice" because there are not many details. If you play both the console game and the PC version of the console game on LCD monitors however you will notice that the PC should look better and have more details (assuming you have a kick-ass graphics card). So why bother getting the 360 , better to get a graphic card .. wait , no get 2 graphics card and SLi them :). Of course for some game due to the filters used the 360 might look slightly better but that is becase the game was released for the PC first and then was ported into the Xbox360 with tweaks to make it look better.
As for the PS3 , Sony hasn't made many ports from console to PC so it is still worth getting.
Anyone else want to convince Adole , please feel free to comment.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/PC-versus-PlayStation-3-versus-Xbox-360-2134.shtml |
At 10:50 AM,
ah, no no no, of coz buying graphic card for pc or brand new pc is better than getting xbox360 (i wan to play RO2 at high performance!!). I m not really a fable fan, i havent played the game b4 too, just that games like Nighty Nine Nights and few others that really got me, besides the price is quite cheap, hahaha. anyhow, i m getting a PS3 next year around Feb, dun care if it's modded or not, i m getting it. wait for my bonus first, hope by next year it's already modded AND CAN still play online games. xbox360 cant do that, modded and no on9 games.
At 2:23 PM,
omg i can see you're really bored and super free at the lab
At 8:46 AM,
my uncle bought ps3 and i m super tempted to get one buy. arg.........
At 6:32 PM,
Dood, did you even read the whole article and all the comments?
It depends though, for pure gaming the consoles tend to be better and cheaper. Try building a PC that is as powerful as a PS3 and see which costs more.