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Originally posted by The Strangler
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, but if you mean that $2,000 dollars American is expensive for a high end PC you'd be dead wrong. If you want a true high end gaming PC that won't be hopelessly out f date in a year, you'll need to drop $2,500 - $4,000 depending on the power and maker. See www.alienware.com for examples.
Look at the example I gave. Morrowind looks and plays wonderfully on PC, but the problem is most PC owners can't play the damn thing because their PC isn't powered by a V8 Processor/Video Card combo. Also look at the sales of FFVII and GTA 3 sales on console compared to PC. The PC version is better in both cases, but the console versions both outsold their PC brothers by leaps and bounds.
Also when comparing the age demographics of PC and console gamers, you'll see that there is a great disparity.
Its for these reasons that I think parallel PC and console releases don't really hurt console sales.
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if you actually buy your PC from a manufacturer instead of building it youself then yes. it will be more expensive. No body i know who has a power house of a PC would EVER of spent that much tho. i have one friend that builds pc's for a living, he would laugh at that price.
and yes. thoes games you mentioned outsold thier PC counterpart by a lot. But part of that is. thoes are more consolish type games, then ontop of that they came out months in advance on console first.
No boby here was arguing the sales points tho. whether a game sells better on PC or Console is beside the point. cuz its the same game, and if its a good game thats all that matters.
only reason i was bringing up PC was just to point out some of the games are also on it. thats it. period, not saying they were good bad, or anything like that. only that they exist.
And puppet, the halo on PC already has more then the Xbox version of halo. And the mods that come out for it will keep it alive much longer then the xbox version. and i'd be willing to bet it has many of the features Halo2 will have that are new. Have to just wait and see tho.
And yea. pretty much no one is worried about halo on PC anymore. everyone who really wants to play it already has on xbox. Which is another reason why i think they'll end up adding a bit more to it. Cant really say i'll get it unless it has a lot of new things.