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Rik wrote:It was stated that the PC could "outperform" the console version for £119, it would be the case at 720p and a solid 30fps.

Reading the Digital Foundary article, it seems that the target is a solid 24FPS at minimums at 1024x768.

Rik wrote:It was stated that the PC could "outperform" the console version for £119, it would be the case at 720p and a solid 30fps.

Link to this please?

Falsey wrote:To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Joer wrote:EDIT: I'm not sure what my point is there. I think it's a "Why can't we all just get along" post. I'm not too sure.

I don't even think everyone should get along.

I just wish people would stop responding to inane gooseberry fool with more gooseberry fool. It just piles so much shitty gooseberry fool on the gooseberry fool pile that I can't even gooseberry fool without shitting all over some shitting gooseberry fool.

The behaviour today has been embarrassing. Not in equal measure (Rik ), but there's no high ground for anyone in this mess.

Rik wrote:

Falsey wrote:To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Which had no hard drive and so required a memory card, which probably was another £20 on top, and rapidly became unusable as the updates and DLC rolled in.

Didn't the arcade version come without a hard drive or a memory card though? I'm probably wrong and I don't care enough to check if that was the case.

Delusibeta wrote:

Rik wrote:It was stated that the PC could "outperform" the console version for £119, it would be the case at 720p and a solid 30fps.

Reading the Digital Foundary article, it seems that the target is a solid 24FPS at minimums at 1024x768.

Give me the readies, I reckon I can totally do this challenge. I reckon Ive got the skills.

Delusibeta wrote:

Rik wrote:It was stated that the PC could "outperform" the console version for £119, it would be the case at 720p and a solid 30fps.

Reading the Digital Foundary article, it seems that the target is a solid 24FPS at minimums at 1024x768.

Lets see if what we build can do that.

We're all one big happy family.

Delusibeta wrote:

Rik wrote:

Falsey wrote:To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Which had no hard drive and so required a memory card, which probably was another £20 on top, and rapidly became unusable as the updates and DLC rolled in.

Your changing the goalposts now We're now going back to launch prices instead of todays price, the arcade 360 could play Crysis 3 though out of the box, you could use your one months free Gold to save onto Cloud saves

I'm more interesting in finding out the price of the cheapest PC that can play Pong.

jiggles wrote:

Joer wrote:EDIT: I'm not sure what my point is there. I think it's a "Why can't we all just get along" post. I'm not too sure.

I don't even think everyone should get along.

I just wish people would stop responding to inane gooseberry fool with more gooseberry fool. It just piles so much shitty gooseberry fool on the gooseberry fool pile that I can't even gooseberry fool without shitting all over some shitting gooseberry fool.

The behaviour today has been embarrassing. Not in equal measure (Rik ), but there's no high ground for anyone in this mess.

Surely there's a high ground for those with facts against those trolling?

Rik wrote:

Delusibeta wrote:

Rik wrote:

Falsey wrote:To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Which had no hard drive and so required a memory card, which probably was another £20 on top, and rapidly became unusable as the updates and DLC rolled in.

Your changing the goalposts now We're now going back to launch prices instead of todays price, the arcade 360 could play Crysis 3 though out of the box, you could use your one months free Gold to save onto Cloud saves

Now you're really strawberry floating stretching.

(More to the point, can the Arcade update to the latest version of the dashboard? I don't think so, I think that some hard drive space would be required.)

(Plus the saves would require an infinitely long Gold subscription, and suddenly Falsey's build becomes cheaper)

jiggles wrote:

Joer wrote:EDIT: I'm not sure what my point is there. I think it's a "Why can't we all just get along" post. I'm not too sure.

I don't even think everyone should get along.

I just wish people would stop responding to inane gooseberry fool with more gooseberry fool. It just piles so much shitty gooseberry fool on the gooseberry fool pile that I can't even gooseberry fool without shitting all over some shitting gooseberry fool.

The behaviour today has been embarrassing. Not in equal measure (Rik ), but there's no high ground for anyone in this mess.

It's a simple challenge, nothing bad about it. It can either be done or it can't. If it can then it would be worth the investment to me.

So based on that eBay link that Delusi posted, it would be cheaper to to kit yourself out with a PC to play Crysis 3 multiplayer for more than a month by about £25 compared to getting it on 360? That's quite ridiculous how good the value is there.

Joer wrote:So based on that eBay link that Delusi posted, it would be cheaper to to kit yourself out with a PC to play Crysis 3 multiplayer for more than a month by about £25 compared to getting it on 360? That's quite ridiculous how good the value is there.

I won't guarantee it'll run *well* but it'll probably run better than whatever RRoD'd piece of junk Rik has lined up for similar money.

(And yes, you can get PCs for less than a year of Gold. Not terribly good ones, but PCs nonetheless)

Watching people argue with Rik...

Didn't we have this exact thread a few years back, and by the same people? Or can I now dream the future?

Delusibeta wrote:

Rik wrote:

Falsey wrote:To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Which had no hard drive and so required a memory card, which probably was another £20 on top, and rapidly became unusable as the updates and DLC rolled in.

It also lacked a hdmi port.

I think it might be possible at that price by taking a midrange AMD APU, and pairing it with the cheapest possible ram, motherboard, and case/PSU, keyboard/mouse combo's you could find. Why would anyone want to do that though?