@HeroXIV

"What hardware do these guys use for the PC? 5870s and i7s or something a little more "fair" in comparison? "

You'd need that sort of hardware to be playing in Eyefinity aka 3 screens. Leave beating consoles to us 4 year olds.

8800gtx

In all honesty, PCs have been largely beating consoles since GTX 280. I have one and can play i.e. F1 2010 @ 1080p Maxes out without a hitch. Mafia II runs @ nearly 60fps on 1366x768, SFIV @ 1080p 60fps and the list goes on. I have reserved the console games that didn't run smooth on consoles to be played on a PC and as a result I can enjoy the games without distracting technical limitations. i.e. Splinter Cell ConViction, Mafia II and MW2 it's a delight to play them @ 1080p - 60Fps, and most games (except FPS) already have native Xbox 360 controller support so I just plug my TV to my PC and play as if I was in a next (next) gen console. All this with a card that should be around $150 by now.

I've been playing PC games since Choplifter and Zork I on Apple II. Technically, consoles cannot compare, but visually and in motion, sure they can. You cannot come close to the console gaming experience on a PC for anywhere close to $300.

And you're most likely going to be alone on a monitor or laptop with no decent gamepad unless you use the Xbox wireless and adapter.

If you're a geek playing pixels alone, PC is the way to go. You want to actually get away from the monitor and keyboard and relax and have fun with no hiccups, get a console, go in the living room, have a bunch of folks over and do some HD gaming on with the Home Theatre blasting on a 52" LED HDTV.

@MorganX

Sorry but you could easily get a 400-500usd worth machines that would wipe the floor with consoles.

http://www.tomshardware.com...
Theres a 400usd system. Every game bought on console is more expensive, that puts cost in favor of the PC.

...the console wins every time. There are no 2 PC's the same and every PC owner will have a different experience. The 360 costs $150-299 ( PS3 $299 ) and is plug and play with the same experience for the 42+ million 360 owners out there.

In terms of raw horsepower, the PC is the clear winner...who would argue that...lol...but it doesn't matter. PC guys count the pixels and the console gaming community will count the games like Halo Reach, Alan Wake, Gears 3, GT 5 and Killzone 3.

you could have a gaming for 500usd or upto 2000usd. however even the 500usd pc will play games better then console and the games will be cheaper by a good deal. Dead rising 2 on PC is 20usd cheaper.

I usually get by when i buy nearly all the multi format games on PC and save at least 10 pounds on each one. I buy as many as 30 multi titles a year but usually at least 20. Saves me hundreds and hundreds on games. Put it back in PC hardware.

PCs also serve more purposes than just playing games.

if thats a real pic of him i feel sorry, not just a troll but a nerdy lookin troll.

Ah just realised they've done one for the 360 vs PC too :)

none of them games, asides from civ 5, appeal to me to be honest. some games, take civ 5, for example should only be played on the Pc- am really not looking forward to my dumbed down console version, so will probably not buy it. some games are developed across platforms, which is fine, but some games are designed specifically for the consoles and available only on the console! say what you like about the pc, but you're never going to get hold of wipeout hd, uncharted or any other ps3 exclusive, which im gonna enjoy on my huge fu@k off HD tv!

"but you're never going to get hold of... any other ps3 exclusive"

Of course not, hence the word exclusive :| And of course you can connect a PC to an HDTV no problem if it's size that matters, so that's a pretty null point.

trust me as an owner of all platforms and a pc gamer first.

PC gamers and 360 gamers are not missing out on anything. The so called zomg exclusives would not appeal to most pc gamers to begin with. Uncharted is meh. I had to force myself to finish gow3 in order to trade it in. I traded in Heavy Rain on day 2. MGS4 never got anymore play time after I ran into a cutscene which clocked at the 45 minutes mark (seriously I mean Really? is that necessary?).

The only game worth playing on the console that the pc will be getting down the way anyway is Red Dead. If only for the singleplayer. Online is horrible.

DR4 should have not been made anyways. DR3 closed everything nicely.

They're a solid channel. I always click on their vids, unless it's a series/game I simply have no interest in.

haha yes it may....good one.