Has a console ever depreciated as quickly as the Xbox One ?

[Bojay1997]

I think you are just stating two sides of the same coin. I'm on Gameguy's side of it, though. If the hardware is essentially the same, why buy the less capable console? Just get the PC, play nearly all the same games, but also do all the other things that people do with PCs. That's my interpretation, anyway.

I agree with you about a surge when new games hit. Seems inevitable.

Not really. His whole argument was that consoles should be $300 or less and yet given that modern consoles are almost identical to low end PCs, it seems impossible to meet that price point. Where can you find a $300 PC with as much memory, hard drive space, as powerful a processor and graphics card, along with the same audio capability and HD output, plus a Blu Ray drive? Unless you're building it yourself and using low end components and not using any Microsoft or other licensed software, I think building a PC for that amount is pretty difficult or impossible and it probably wouldn't perform as well as either a PS4 or Xbox One. You can buy or build a PC for $500, but is it going to have the same longevity as the PS4 or Xbox One as a viable gaming platform? Not in my experience unless you aren't playing graphics and processor intensive games.

I see owning a console as giving up some performance in exchange for the ability to play games that will likely never come to the PC and avoiding the obsolescence that comes quickly to low end PCs, especially for gaming. I actually own a PC and a MAC that are both used for modern gaming, but if I had to pick either a console for gaming or a PC, I would always go for the console even if the pricing is similar.