Thread: N64 or PS1?
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Old 21-10-2013, 09:13 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Verbal View Post
That makes no sense really. You can buy a good gaming PC for the same price as the new xbox, and then it is upgradeable at any time which a console isnt. There are loads of games like the one you mentioned, planetside 2 etc that are totally free to play. The ones you buy are nowhere near the £50 you would buy a console game for.
A typical console generation lasts around five years, I bet if you were to take the cost of an average console and the cost of keeping a PC upgraded over the span of five years then the costs would be similar or higher for the PC, Especially if you aren't tech savvy enough to do it yourself.
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