Has anyone else here actually migrated from console gaming to PC gaming?

[Aurgelmir]

I knew, years ago, that buying sale games on Steam is many times cheaper than buying console games retail, or even Direct-to-Drive. I saved up for a desktop, got (what I thought) was a reasonable package deal, and even though I usually have to tone done the visuals (hey, let's see you do better with twelve hundred dollars and no starting components!), I haven't really looked back.

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam, and have spent, at my estimate, less than three hundred dollars. That would have gotten me six games on consoles. Even factoring in the cost of the desktop, bringing it to fifteen hundred, I'd be looking at a console and thirty games, if that. I've heard that games are where consoles make their money before, but looking at the numbers really drives the point home, and illustrates how a PC is a much more efficient investment.

Anyone else with me, here?

Not to that extreme, but I am spending more time using my PC these days. To me it is all based on what games I have for where. I currently have a good PC, but I also have good games on it SC2 DA2 Civ5 and so on that I like to play.

In a few months I might be playing PS3 again

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

I didnt exactly go from PC to console but recently ive been playing alot on my new PS3....but since the creators argument was price....the i dont know....i buy whatever games i want and dont worry about price so my choice was based on games i wanted to play.

But i agree PC market is better but most of those sales and packages you guys speak of are of old games. And altho you cant buy console games the same way online you still get packages of similar quality on Gaming Stores. So its pretty much the same thing. Older games get cheaper and get put in bundles and ppl buy em.

I think there alot of awesome console games right now and i dont know what all this fuss about consoles dying is.
But there is no way the PC will die....you need to kill the internet and microsoft word for that!

 

[moretimethansense]

I knew, years ago, that buying sale games on Steam is many times cheaper than buying console games retail, or even Direct-to-Drive. I saved up for a desktop, got (what I thought) was a reasonable package deal, and even though I usually have to tone done the visuals (hey, let's see you do better with twelve hundred dollars and no starting components!), I haven't really looked back.

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam, and have spent, at my estimate, less than three hundred dollars. That would have gotten me six games on consoles. Even factoring in the cost of the desktop, bringing it to fifteen hundred, I'd be looking at a console and thirty games, if that. I've heard that games are where consoles make their money before, but looking at the numbers really drives the point home, and illustrates how a PC is a much more efficient investment.

Anyone else with me, here?

That would have gotten you six NEW games on consoles, I thought I better point that out, thrifty shoppers can faind great games quite cheap if they don't mind waiting a bit.

As to your question, I comute.

 

[Cpu46]

I migrated more because of the fact that I chose not to bring my 360 to college with me this year. My computer kinda sucks as far as graphics go however so it limits the games I can get.

 

[hazabaza1]

I went from mainly console with PC on side to mainly PC with console on side.

 

[viranimus]

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam

I cant help but to say no you dont as you own nothing when you buy from steam outside of a long term rental license for access that can be revoked at steams discretion.

As for migrating? No, yes, maybe, not really. My first console was an Atari 2600. However I programed my first game on a tandy computer when I was 6. Granted I did own another computer until 1999 once I had access to it I used it for some gaming. I personally perfer PC titles when available but with exclusives I really cant see the logic in limiting ones self to one platform.

 

[HentMas]

I have, but its more an economic change than a preference change, i can buy a LOT of games via steam at prices much more accesible, a new game here in MX can cost up to 150 bucks, (or more) whilst in steam its much cheaper (i believe 99.99) and i dont need to go into the store to buy it

I still buy the ocasional exlusive, but i have being gameing much more in PC, when i was a full console fanboy.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

Why migrate when I can enjoy both?
There are plenty of great games exclusive to either format. The idea of migrating seems rather silly.

 

[constantcompile]

That would have gotten you six NEW games on consoles, I thought I better point that out, thrifty shoppers can faind great games quite cheap if they don't mind waiting a bit.

As to your question, I comute.

I used $40 as my price-per-game in that equation, attempting to factor in some games being new and some games being used. Since most new games are $60 as far as I'm aware, I think this is a fair estimate. I agree that thrifty shoppers can find good deals, but I'm sure you'll agree that it takes far less effort to simply wait until one of Steam's massive sales and buy enough to tide you over until the next one. Also, what do you mean by "comute?" My window shows it as a misspelling.

I cant help but to say no you dont as you own nothing when you buy from steam outside of a long term rental license for access that can be revoked at steams discretion.

As far as I'm aware, all games and consoles work this way, as demonstrated by Sony's lawsuits against PS3 modders. From what I can see, a digital license is more assurance of play than a physical disk; it cannot be broken, nor lost or stolen (unless your whole account is stolen, or course, but then Steam seems to be upgrading its security); Newell has said they've experimented with removing the validation system in the event that Valve goes under, and it works.

I personally perfer PC titles when available but with exclusives I really cant see the logic in limiting ones self to one platform.

I didn't intend to make it sound like a self-imposed celibacy; as I said, I still play consoles with family. PC games are simply cheaper and easier for me; because I lack both money and time, I find myself playing them almost exclusively.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

I have about 100 steam games and spent so far about £200 on them,

I have about 20 ps3 games and have spent about £400 on them.

I do like the PC as a platform but when you spend all day working at a desk behind a PC you don't want to spend your recreational time there, soooo not reay to give up on consoles just yet ^.^

 

[moretimethansense]

That would have gotten you six NEW games on consoles, I thought I better point that out, thrifty shoppers can faind great games quite cheap if they don't mind waiting a bit.

As to your question, I comute.

I used $40 as my price-per-game in that equation, attempting to factor in some games being new and some games being used. Since most new games are $60 as far as I'm aware, I think this is a fair estimate. I agree that thrifty shoppers can find good deals, but I'm sure you'll agree that it takes far less effort to simply wait until one of Steam's massive sales and buy enough to tide you over until the next one. Also, what do you mean by "comute?" My window shows it as a misspelling.

As you didn't state a currancy I assumed GBP which would have been roughly correct anyway for new games depending om where you buy.

I meant to type commute, to quote the dictionary

Commute
Verb: to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work

I was making a joke of your use of the word "migrate" which would imply that I had stopped playing console games in favour of the PC, in my case I am a Console gamer first but I'll go out of my way to play PC games regularly.