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Originally posted by psychosomatica Nintendo products have more mass market appeal.. do you play syphon filter at a party? metal gear solid? Splinter Cell? No. You play Super Smash Brothers.. Mario Kart.. Mario Party.. They're much more intuitive and user friendly. Not saying that Sony is bad.. but they're for a mature crowd. XBOX is somewhere in between.

why play video games at party when you can get witht he bitches? Nintendo cater to kids ... and nowadays kids don't play v.games as much.

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Originally posted by Platipus PCFTW

$1100 graphics cards hurrah!

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 $1100 graphics cards hurrah!

Yea... PC gaming is great, but for me, the effort to constantly upgrade hardware and struggle with installing/uninstalling, etc is such a pain. When you buy a game for Gamecube, if you've got a Gamecube, you can play it right away, and not worry about your hardware, OS, peripherals, etc. PC gaming suffers from hackers, and you never really know if the people you're playing with are winning because of skill, or because they're running bots/programs to play the game for them.

PC gaming has succeeded in FPS and RTS genres, primarily because these genres make heavy use of the mouse. It's just a pain in the ass to play command and conquer or quake with a joystick. The internet has spawned the success of computer MMORPGs, but now that consoles are going online, the computer has lots its monopoly there. I still prefer my gamecube to the PC for casual gaming, single-player games, and party games. The only game I really use my PC for is Starcraft.

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Originally posted by DJ_Elyot Yea... PC gaming is great, but for me, the effort to constantly upgrade hardware and struggle with installing/uninstalling, etc is such a pain. When you buy a game for Gamecube, if you've got a Gamecube, you can play it right away, and not worry about your hardware, OS, peripherals, etc. PC gaming suffers from hackers, and you never really know if the people you're playing with are winning because of skill, or because they're running bots/programs to play the game for them.

That's what makes it to appealing to me. Customization. I don't want to have what everybody else does. I want exclusivity. Cool shit. Stuff that you can say to other nerds, "YEAH WELL MINE HAS 8 VERTEX SHADERS AND 16X ANSIOTROPIC FILTERING"

Uh huh.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 That's what makes it to appealing to me. Customization. I don't want to have what everybody else does. I want exclusivity. Cool shit. Stuff that you can say to other nerds, "YEAH WELL MINE HAS 8 VERTEX SHADERS AND 16X ANSIOTROPIC FILTERING" Uh huh.

Nah... I prefer the level playing field that consoles offer. I don't want to have to buy $1100 worth of hardware so I can play 2 or 3 games at a decent framerate, only to have to dish out another $1000 a year later so I can play the next 2 or 3 games at a decent framerate.

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Originally posted by DJ_Elyot Nah... I prefer the level playing field that consoles offer. I don't want to have to buy $1100 worth of hardware so I can play 2 or 3 games at a decent framerate, only to have to dish out another $1000 a year later so I can play the next 2 or 3 games at a decent framerate.

I have a Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB right now that I've had for about 3 years, and the last game it played decently was Doom3, but at the lowest quality settings, and barely 30fps.

It's by far the biggest bottleneck in my system, followed by the fact that I don't have PCI-X slots in my mobo, only AGP

Nintendo can suck my overgrown hairy right ball

Getting fucked up and playing NHL 06 ftw

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 It's by far the biggest bottleneck in my system, followed by the fact that I don't have PCI-X slots in my mobo, only AGP

The biggest bottleneck is always the harddrive

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Eeexactly. The only game that interests me on the PS3 is Metal Gear Solid 4

Exactly. Sony is doing nothing new. However, on the North American market, where flash and style mean more than substance, Sony will still do well.

As for the PC market, it's a totally different type of gamer, that whom sits at a PC, and that whom sits at a console. COnstantly upgrading is a pain, and it is pretty damn expensive to run a system capable of running the latest games the way they're meant to be ran.

HD's are never a bottleneck, it usually is the video card. Doom3 on a 9000...is that possible?

Hard drives are the bottle neck in loading time, and not in processing time. It may take a lot longer to load a level, but once the level is loaded into RAM, then the his video card will probably be the limiter.

I was a huge PC gamer for a long time. I remember paying the same price for a video card, as the ps2 cost when i got it. I was more than happy because of the games and graphics levels for PC. The games have fallen way back now, and the graphics are just too intense. Having to spend that much money to play a game on a decent rig, just doesnt make sense anymore.

Has anybody even been into a EB lately for a PC game? Tiny selection. You cant even get all the newest EA sports games, and they were always at the front. The day I cannot get a NHL game for PC, is the day I walk away from PC gaming.

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Originally posted by zokissima HD's are never a bottleneck, it usually is the video card. Doom3 on a 9000...is that possible?

The harddrive is the slowest component in any computer, and that is why we have RAM. So you're right, for game performance, the harddrive probably doesn't mean much. Nonetheless, the harddrive is still the slowest component in a computer.

EDIT: Orko beat me to it.