Re: New IIgs owner.

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:19:03 GMT, "Donald C. Lee"
<coach41@pacbell.net> wrote:

>   My co-worker and I discussed this once:  An X-Box, PS2, Game Cube,
>etc, etc.....is economically a better choice.  If you have the latest and
>greatest PC, that is good.  If you're like me and running older systems at
>home, the latest games for the PC are not usable.

Some game consoles are an economical choice and the newer ones might
drop to a better price but I've seen PCs that are as good as, if not
better then, the X-Box for the same price as the X-Box.

>   So you need a new PC and I'm sure if it's worth it to keep pumping
>money to get new PC hardware JUST for games.  I stick with my older PC's
>because they function and do what I need them to do.  Even for games,
>albeit older games.

But if you upgrade your PC to play the new games, your older software
will often benefit as well, not to mention that you can then get new
software that does what some of your older stuff does but with more
features.

However, if you buy a console to play the new games, your older
software gets no benefit and you would still have to upgrade your
machine to be able to use the more feature rich versions of stuff.

>   So if I ever decided I wanted to play some of the latest and greatest
>games, I'd probably go for a game system.  I could play most games that I
>could play on the PC (except for like RPG/Strategy types).  

So you're saying that there is less software available for the
consoles than the PCs.  That, to me, is another reason NOT to use a
console.

>   Of course, in the end, it depends on the individual what they want to
>do and everyone has their own preferences.  :)

Very true.

The consoles definitely work well with kids as you just have to put in
a disk/cartridge and start it up and the game is running.  No worrying
about the kids accidentally deleting important files or going to
inappropriate web sites.  :)

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