Pick it, Buy it, Mail it, Switch it, Love it.

Nuff said

I bought a Packard Bell along time ago. That was the last time I bought a computer. It is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oo expensive to buy a computer every 2 years. I can build 4 top notch computers for one built computer from DELL.

If you have the skills to do it, HELL YES. I save over $1000 bucks(when compare to a Dell or Alienware) building my computer.

Nothing like booting your first custom built machine. Its satisfying knowing everything in it is your choice and your decisions, not some bean counter's at a corporation.

I should of build my own PC cause I spent TOO FREAKING MUCH AT DELL DAMN. The only thing I don't know bout building PC is overclocking, processor, and a few software. I feel like kicking myself right now for buying that stupid DELL PC. When this one dies I'll just take out the Blu-Ray burner and put it in my next PC I will built.

First of all my first Custom built PC was a disaster in regards to what I actually wanted on a computer. I think the MAIN reason why it's great for gamers to actually build their OWN computers is because they actually know what they want FROM it. About some 3 years ago i met my great friend who is a computer technician and fixes and build's PC's all the time for his job and friends. He got me into PC gaming and showed me his games and they looked amazing and it got me interested.

So of course I didn't know how to build a PC at the time so I had him make a PC FOR ME. Turns out he plays MMO's all day and doesn't keep up to date on whats with the times on the HARDWARE side of things since all he needs is for his simple mmo to play. Turns out he made me a pc with a single core amd 754 socket amd processor,x800 at gpu and 2 gigs or ram which I asked for. Great I thought! I played F.E.A.R on it was was blasted away. Until 6 months later the games started coming out with the use of shader 3.0 (x800 ati is shader 2.0) and single core just didn't cut it anymore for games at all, everything was better on dual-core's.

I was like: WTH didn't we just get a dual-core and a better graphics card back 6 months ago? I researched to find out that all those things were available when we bought MY stuff! My friend tested to find how good my gpu was my actually HOLDING it in his hands to see how much it WEIGHTED! He didn't actually know since he plays MMO's all day...
So of course during the time i had that old PC things happened, I had to replace my MB myself and in the due process of time i learned a LOT and can make pc's easy..
I replaced my old PC last christmass with my first OWN built PC with i7 processor 6 gigs of ddr3 2000mhz ram windows 7 home premium and an ati 4870 which i got for great price and I'm loving my PC.
PC building no matter how simple we know it is can be intimidating to a newcomer, most casual people look at a motherboard and panic really.
There is certainly space for both pre-made and self-made PC's. I had a HP-laptop which i loved and enjoyed but it didn't play games. What was different about that purchase was that I KNEW exactly was I was getting when I bought it. (It was a great media PC btw) ;)

Custom building PCs is so easy these days, even most of the connections are color coordinated making it harder to go wrong. I've been custom building for a long time (when you had to move dip switches on the motherboard to set the CPU speed!) so have had a lot of practice. Depending on how you shop you can save a LOT, but not everyone knows where to go. As JamMyth shows, sometimes you barely save money at all ... but in his example it's not quite an apples to apples comparison. I can pretty much guarantee that whilst he wouldn't have saved money custom building he would have had superior quality parts that would last longer and keep the system more stable.

At the end of the day custom building is a little daunting, but with some time, patience and some research you can build an amazing system. All you sacrifice by custom building is the "safety net" of when something goes wrong you can return it to where you purchased it and have it fixed. But even that support is not always great and can be a headache to deal with. Plus there are literally thousands of websites and forums out there dedicated to helping people with computer problems.

Something interesting to note, have you noticed how the price of pre-built systems has dropped year over year, know why that is? It's because companies like Dell realized people like us were building their systems at a fraction of the cost. So come on people get custom building :)

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau