Beamer wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 13:42:Creston wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 13:18:Beamer wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 12:33:
and having to say "hey, hang on, guys, my PC is booting, we'll be playing in a few minutes" isn't very appealing.
That's such a dumb argument, I can't even believe you're making it. A decent SSD PC will boot to the desktop in 20-25 seconds. (I have a Sandforce 2 controller in it, and it coldboots to the desktop in 17 seconds flat.) By that time, you haven't even managed to get your PS3 logged in and moved over to the part in the menu where you can select what you want to do.
But hey, at least you can enjoy your minutes-long loading screens on the console.
Creston
Yeah, if I were to build a second PC just for playing the same games I prefer playing on consoles I'm not convinced I'd put an SSD in it. Why?
Money isn't the biggest factor to me, but it's hard to justify two extremely powerful PCs in my apartment. One is extremely powerful because I do some video from time to time but mostly am working with Excel and PowerPoint files >25MB, and the other would be extremely powerful so that I can play Prototype 2? Hardly. And what about when friends come over and want to play a Harmonix game?
Still baffles me that it baffles you guys that PCs aren't always the best option.