@ HS6 - If I upgrade now, I wont have to worry about anymore PC hardware until at least the next console wave. At the rate that PC stuff is coming out (pretty damn slow....the fastest CPU you could get is like 3.8 now, there hasnt been much improvement over the last 2 years) so I wont have to fork out over and over, like I said the PC right now is pretty much as high as I can get it. Either way, I'd have to upgrade my PC or buy a next gen console in the next 5 or so years.
@ JK - I've got enough money for either purchase, so it doesnt bother me, but if I get a 360, I can run all the games perfectly until the next wave of consoles comes out.
@Z - Theres a few titles I'd love to have, like Perfect Dark, that I cant get on PC. But of course, theres going to be PC games I'd love to have that I cant get on 360..
@ Stalker - True, but then you can get cool sports games and so on on consoles that are more fun to play when you're mucking around at home with friends and so on. My brother's computer is obselete now, so he cant play any of the games Ive got across a network, so we could really only play together over a console.
@forumcrew - Yeah as Ken said, different currency. And my mobo has PCI express, so Im good for anything really. The 7800GT is what Im looking at getting as well.
@ WD - I dont upgrade that often, I dont even think I've upgraded anything since I bought it last year. But my graphics card is the only thing holding me back from playing games at their full potential. Other than that, I'd probably only need a new harddrive over the next few years. I could spend hundreds of $ upgrading, but I'd also be spending the same amount buying games and periphals for a console, so its really a heads or tails choice of what to do.
@Ken - Does the 360 have a keyboard and mouse? Or can you get a usb converter or something to plug in a PC K&M? Yeah I've got a few of the 360/PC ported games, but the exclusive titles dont look like I could pass them up.
@Smas - True...I played through Jedi Outcast, then kept playing it for years through all the mods and so on I downloaded.
@ESB - Im more of a PC gamer, but I still have an XBox, and thrashed the crap out of my N64 while I had it. It's not as simple as that for me, theres games on both 360 and PC that look fun to play. I have GTA: SA on both PC and Xbox, but I play it on Xbox because it feels better as a console game. But I have Morrowind on both, and prefer it on PC because it feels awkward on Xbox.
@BF - I havent been looking too far into PC games after Oblivion, so Im not sure what kind of games I'd be making use of the new graphics card with. Given how huge and everything Oblivion is, I see that as a perfect excuse to spend so much money on a graphics card, because I'd get so much use out of it. If it weren't for that game, I probably wouldnt worry about upgrading for another year or so.
At the moment Ive got the 128mb GF 6600, I'd be upgrading to the 256mb GF 7800GT. You said you got about 15000 3d mark score on it? Thats about 3x the performance improvement I'd see upgrading from my old card. So it'd be a massive difference for me, well worth it.
Ouch, mega post 😖