lol, not really. Maybe if you pirate all your software, but a decent gaming PC will run a minimum of $1000--that's with rebates, with buying parts on sale, and building it yourself. No matter which console you buy today, you won't need to spend more than $400 to get ~everything~ you need. Which is about the same amount of money you'd need for a PC monitor alone.

It's really not cost-effective unless you plan on using your PC for other tasks (which most of us do, I think).

@Canary http://gyazo.com/e2d6d80609... and this is just considering that you have to buy EVERYTHING. Most people recycle hardrives, and monitors when building a new PC, but I threw it in there just for people who lack a PC at all, though I do wonder how they are on this site. and That's WAY more powerful than you need to max most games. That's a 6 core, and a 560GTX Ti. Less than 1000 btw, and a beast ass computer.

Edit: I grabbed an Intel mother board on accident, but yea, around the same price or lower for a decent AMD one.

Haha yeah I know, I'm already saving up for a computer but when I buy it I want it to last for a while. So whenever the xbox 720 or whatever comes out, I'll be buying a new computer! Easy as that :)

I doubt it, this is a new engine, it'll take people time to figure out how to import that stuff and have it look right on the new characters. It looks nice on Fallout and oblivion chars since they're on the same engine. This is not, I doubt the character skeletons and meshes are the same or similar to those.

^--It's not a new engine, it's the same engine "modified." Bethesda has stated this several times. They have also states that they're using the same resources (types of mesh/textures/whatever) that the older games have, claiming to be doing so because that's the stuff the modders have so much experience with.

But the long and short of it is that it's not really a new engine in any sense of the word. Trust me: you'll recognize the Gamebryo as soon as you start playing.