Too true, but I don't feel bad about neglecting the PC market. If I had taken the initial 430 dollars I spent to get my Elite 360 with two games almost three years ago, and instead spent it to upgrade my PC, I would never have had the amazing gaming experience I've had since then.
The reason I got my 360 was because all my friends ended up getting one each, a year before I did, and I didn't want to be left out. Because really, that first and only year of being the only one not with an 360 was rather hellish, because at all the game nights they had, I was the guy that was dropped onto the friend that had the biggest TV, so that split screening would be better.
I grew up with both consoles and a gaming PC, but when I became an adult that's parents aren't going to give money to anymore for keeping up with both gaming platforms, I had to make a decision, and consoles really are more convenient.
If I had used the money to upgrade my PC then, I would most likely be gaming away by myself in my room, and I would have grown apart from my friends because gaming is really the linchpin between us, because it is what we talk about most, and it just isn't fun to randomly talk about games that we know the other isn't playing and sharing in the experience.
Astiahl said:
Funny thing is, even when I play something in my living room I end up standing in front of the TV anyway, being relaxed back in my couch makes my reaction time quite
shite so I can't play properly...making my PC actually more comfortable.
Do you mean standing as in actual standing, or just sitting up in a chair or couch?
I, in my 22 years since I was introduced to gaming, have never seen a person that is an actual gamer, stand up in front of a television because it some how helped with response times, or anything for that matter.
The only person I've seen that voluntarily got up from sitting while playing a console game, was my grandma back in the day of the NES. She would occasionally have a go at the first Mario Bros.(Really the first and only video game she ever played).
When she played, at the times she had to jump over the holes in the levels, she would actually jump up out of her chair as if her moving would some how make Mario's jump better and make it across the hole(her, unknowingly predicting the future of gaming two decades later).
I've known many gamers over the years, console gamers and diehard PC gamers that changed to exclusively console because they just couldn't keep up with the PC upgrades because they didn't have the money. Out of all of them, none of them ever stood in front of the television while playing.
At least not with straight controller games. They of course stand when we play Wii bowling and such, because that is what the game was designed for, same goes for the music/guitar games.
