Originally posted by BBBB
You have a strange value on convenience. I don't know about you, but I piss 20$ or more a week on BS items, if 15$ is all that is standing between you and buying a next gen console, then I call BS. Your just afraid to cross over to the dark side.
Lol you have a strange idea of convenience. I'd hate to be tied to a certain label gaming box with very limited selection of games and controllers (all of which come at a price premium). Adding to that the console will tie the family tv while gaming - we use tv for watching tv in our family.
90% of games that are played in our family are free demos of games. My 4 and 7 year old kids get plenty of fun just playing a map or two of a demo, I can download them unlimited from different sites when they get bored to old ones. Not to mention about *cough* downloading..
I buy maybe 3-4 best gaming titles each year based on the experience we got from the demos. So for the same amount of money I'd get 3 console games per year (which I could not TEST before buying them I might add!). Which means the console would sit in the corner useless most of the year where the PC gets use daily.
Oh, I also browse internet with the PC's (all of them) and do software coding, how do you do that on a console? And finally, gamepad gaming is the horror of all things. You need a mouse and keyboard to play properly.
Currently we have 3xgaming pcs, 1xmacbook pro and 1xtv in our family. We're a family of 4 so now there is never a fight about who gets to play / use what. Well, except when the neighbours kids come to visit and play but I ain't gonna get THEM their own box!