PS4?...thought this day will never come.

[tech savvy]

More people play PC games than play console games, this whole "consoles are more popular" is a myth. Even if you were to take out the casual games, like your facebook games and what not, proper, store bought and f2p PC games are still more popular than consoles. The only time a console is ahead is in sales on the Wii, it has sold more game units than PC game units have been, but if you look at the total combined sales for the 360 and PS3, the PC beats that by a hell of a long way. PC gaming is still going amazingly strong, and that isn't set to change.

is that your opinion?because i know that aint facts.if you can plz prove me wrong plz do.i know that there are more people that own pc's than consoles but 80% of the pc's out there cant even play modern games at decent graphics(lets not get to ps3 graphics).so i say that only like 20% of computer users actually play at ps3 level or above, the other 80% is moms and dads that play pogo or yahoo(little browser games).you would have to spend atleast $800-$1000 on a pc to play games like the ps3 plays(graphic wise), when you can get a new ps3 for $299 or a used one for as little as $100(if not cheaper).another thing is that consoles are plug and play compared to what you have to do to your pc to get your game working.why you think crysis is coming to the consoles? because more people play consoles than pc's,and for you to play crysis at its recommend setting you would have to spend like i said $800-$1000(thats just gets you by).why do all that when when my ps3 can play it great on my 52" LED t.v,i dont want to play on my 22" LCD moniter,lol.

 

[fastdude]

is that your opinion?because i know that aint facts.if you can plz prove me wrong plz do.i know that there are more people that own pc's than consoles but 80% of the pc's out there cant even play modern games at decent graphics(lets not get to ps3 graphics).so i say that only like 20% of computer users actually play at ps3 level or above, the other 80% is moms and dads that play pogo or yahoo(little browser games).you would have to spend atleast $800-$1000 on a pc to play games like the ps3 plays(graphic wise), when you can get a new ps3 for $299 or a used one for as little as $100(if not cheaper).another thing is that consoles are plug and play compared to what you have to do to your pc to get your game working.why you think crysis is coming to the consoles? because more people play consoles than pc's,and for you to play crysis at its recommend setting you would have to spend like i said $800-$1000(thats just gets you by).why do all that when when my ps3 can play it great on my 52" LED t.v,i dont want to play on my 22" LCD moniter,lol.

No offence, but that's complete rubbish. You could put together a PC for $400 that would be far more powerful graphics wise than a PS3. The only reason PS3 appears to run games so well (at low [PC] settings of course) is because each game is specifically coded to the PS3

 

[Aastii]

@tech savvy

Because money wise, they make more. You are paying ~£30 for a PC game when you pay ~£45 for a console game (except for the Wii which is the same price as PC). You only have to sell two thirds the number of the units on consoles that are sold on PC, and you are making the same amount.

What you are doing is comparing consoles games to their PC counterparts, but forgetting games such as WoW, The Sims, Starcraft, all of your Valve games (except for orange box and CS, but even they sold more on PC than console), Guild wars etc.

When you take into account the number of copies of WoW and their 3 expansions, The Sims and all of their expansions, all of the PC exclusive RTS games, just the sales, never mind the time played on the games, destroys console sales.

To put it into perspective, WoW has 12 million subscribers (1), the vast majority of which have all expansions. As it isn't all, let's assume it is only 11 million of those have WoW + 3 expansions, and the rest have just vanilla. That is 12m copies of vanilla, 11m copies for bc, 11m copies of wotlk, 11m copies of cata. 45m units sold, not including over £100m a month from subscriptions. Compare that to Halo 3.

Halo 3 is the most sold 360 game with just over 11m units sold, and no subscription (2). It was in the top played Xbox game since release, however, WoW is consistently the most played game (3), but NOT the most sold, that title belongs to the Sims franchise (4)(5), which does NOT hold the record for fastest selling, that belongs to WoW (6). And bare in mind, in the same way you think you need a $1000 system to play PC games, which you don't, you do need all of the expansions for WoW to take full advantage, else you will have a hard time raiding, doing instances or doing PvP at end game, all you will have is more quests and some achievements, most of which you can't get.

To then say you need $1000 to build a PC capable of handling the latest and greatest games, that too is completely incorrect. There are people I play with regularly still rocking C2D's and 8600GT's that can play every game on at least medium settings. Assuming you are to build a brand new system that can play games at atleast mid settings @ 1280x1024 (the most used resolution):

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103926

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157215

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231149

Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148511

Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500191

DVD Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118031

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811164094

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139017

OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

And the grand total - $436

(1): http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?101007
(2): http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/6964/halo-3/
(3): http://www.xfire.com/games/wow/World_of_Warcraft/
(4): http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9920327-52.html
(5): http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10261044-235.html
(6): http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?110110

 

[Stildawn]

^^ You just owned him Aastii lol... I read his posts and was like "WTF?"

Dude PS3 is crap compared to even moderate PC's now a days... Perhaps when it was just released it was slightly better than general PC's but now... No way in hell...