Posted by: Thomas Joseph
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 10:37 am CDT
I know a lot of people continue to use PCs for gaming. I mean, I remember my days of playing Unreal Tournament in grad school (got my adviser hooked on it actually) ... on a Mac ironically enough. However, I've really taken to buying used games, and you just can't seem to do that with a PC. I've only purchased three games at full price in the last year (2 for the Wii, 1 for the NDS) and probably none before that. Heck, even when I eventually settle on a PS360, I'll wait until they severely price drop, or people finish their version and bring them back in near-mint condition for me to buy at a fraction of the original price.
To be honest, my Backloggery is atrocious. I have over 100 uncompleted games, and I really can't even justify buying new ones until I complete the old ones (some of which I can no longer fathom why I purchased them in the first place).
You could potentially even expand this argument to cover the Wii/PS360. My goal is to eventually, when I get my big screen TV, to connect all my gaming systems to it and use them to surf the net, watch NetFlix ... basically do everything but word process. Which is why I refused to pay more than ~$300 for my latest PC.