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xmdfmk7x 
What fucking ass did you pull $310 out of? You're assuming that everyone ALREADY has a good monitor, good speakers, a decent mouse, a fast hard drive, a motherboard and CPU that can run a PCI-E x16 card without any trouble, and already has good ram to mix the new ram in with. All ram is not created equal and there's a lot of garbage out there that can't handle any sort of aggressive timing.
To build a GOOD computer that doesn't require you to run your games on the lowest quality setting at 20fps, you're looking at $1000 including the monitor and speakers. If you want to max out all your options you're definitely going into the $2000-3000 range depending on what you want.
In 3 years you don't have to upgrade your console through 6 generations of technology updates like you do with a PC. You buy a DirectX 10 card now and in 3 years they'll have DirectX 12 out with all sorts of shit your $400 video card doesn't support. Everything is consistent on the console, everyone sees nearly the same image and you don't have to worry about dropping down to 15-20fps because your shit can't handle the game.
I prefer PCs to consoles, but there is no way in hell you can figure that a PC is the cheaper route. You're a moron if you think otherwise.
he is not a moron just one of many people that does not realize how crappy most peoples home computers are. for many people it will cost less to get a console up and running and looking good then it would a pc set up.
I remember way back when tribes was popular and I remember the head ach that I had trying to play that game on my PC. most of the other players seemed to move faster and be more accurate and that was because they could actually see the game better and have it run better then I could. it would have cost me hundreds of bucks to have as good a set up. a friend of mine at the time tried on my pc and played so much worse cause of how crappy it was while I did better on his pc.
at the time I was only into arcade gaming (fighters and doing their tournaments) so I did not have console. now that I do play console games I still would like to play pc ones a well but between having to learn keyboard and mouse(which for some reason kills my hands and wrists much more so then a controller) and having to spend money to update my pc so that I can run the games that I would want to play at at least 30fps constant it just be to much money for the little that I would use it.
consoles are easy and fun for me. I pay more user fees but it worth it to me. and I know that about every 3 years I will probably have to buy a new system but that better then the upgrade every 8 months to keep my pc going steady
