...I have a PC, PS2, Gamecube, and an X-box. Now, regardless of the platform the publishers choose to put their game on, I know I'm going to be playing it on day one.
Well isn't that fantastic for you. I can only hope you don't have trouble polishing all the diamond encrusted jewelry you must also have. I'm going to take a crazy guess and assume that not everyone is a rich fancy-man link Valzante here and perhaps doesn't spend thousands of dollars on their machines each year.</sarcasm>
After I make sure I have a car to drive, groceries to eat, an internet to conect to, and a roof over my head, I'm not swimming in money. In fact, at the moment, I'm able to have maybe enough cash for a game a month. I built my current PC with a budget of about 1500 dollars or so. And it's going to have to last me at least another year before I can scrounge enough cash for another one. I hardly think I'm in a dangerous minority here with PC gamers.
I don't have an extra 250 bucks to go out and buy an X-Box (don't forget the cost of extra controllers and that ever important Live account) just because I want to play a game a few months earlier.
I hate it when people think that everyone else happens to have piles of money lying around the house, and they're just too proud to buy an XBOX. You think I wouldn't mind having an extra system to play games on? sure! more games=more fun, right? But it just doesn't work for me financially, and I'm sure more people than me have that problem.
--Rudy