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Originally Posted by Kitsune
I absolutely hate the fact that you have to spend thousands of dollars on a PC to game, but at the same time I can't bring myself to play a game on a television. The PS3 might actually pull me in with the ability to do 1080i.
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You absolutely do NOT have to spend thousands, unless you're a junkie who absolutely has to have state-of-the-art video, audio and speed.
For instance, I'm pricing out a config for a new PC on NewEgg myself, one that would be perfectly adequate for gaming (3000+ Athlon, a gig of memory, 128MB PCI-Express GeForce 6600GT video card, DVD burner, Antec case and PS, etc.), and it's coming out to around $800 right now with a decent upgrade path down the road.
Can I put the newest and greatest game on that, crank every single graphic slider to the maximum and expect an absolutely rock-solid framerate at all times? Probably not. But can I expect that to more than meet "recommended requirements" for games and play appreciably well for the next couple of years for under a thousand bucks? Yup, and I can upgrade it with newer parts to some degree as time goes by and technology advances to delay buying the next one.