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"PC Gaming - Being made cheaper..."

Are you one of those PC-gamers out there who ends-up having to fork-out an initial £1,000+ on a brand-new, top-of-the-range PC, each year, just so you can play the latest versions of Championship Manager, or even The Sims?? And then there's the extra £40-or-so in-between so you can get those 'high-performance' graphics in an on-line game of Counter-Strike, too, right? And I bet you barely use YOUR PC for anything-else, either, do you?

Well, then; you may be interested in this...


The following taken from Sunday's Mirror, on how PC gaming could be made a lot cheaper, thanks to the release of a PC Gaming console:

"Personal Comupter aren't meant to be used for games.
You're expected to hit, shake and swear at them, but not to play serious games with them."

"Nevertheless, since the first days of the PC, owners have ignored the many spreadsheet packages pushed on them in favour of flight-sims and shoot-'em-ups."

"Now, some of the best games out there - Quake, Half-Life, The Sims - are on PC. But if games are all you care about, who wants to pay a grand for a machine to play them on?"

"Which brings us to 'DISCover', the world's first PC Games console. With a Pentium III 2Ghz proccesor and a 40-gig hard drive, it can play every single high-end PC game - on your telly. Basic models will be out by the end of the year for about £200, with higher-spec. consoles likely to sell about £450."


"For more info. see: www.gameconsole.tv "

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Whichever way you look at this, it's got to be a good thing!
Think of the money you could save!!
(And you could probably make a fair-bit, too, selling on your old PCs to people who REALLY need them).

No doubt, you'll be able to play on-line, eventually, and you'll probably be able to run programs like Microsoft World and that on it, somehow, too.


I was thinking of getting an X-Box for Championship Manager, as our chances of getting a new PC seem very-slim... But now, that idea may have to wait!


When your current PC comes to an 'end' which will you buy:
Another £1,200 computer, or the DISCover??

Shame that. I'd like an updatable console, but that's where the PC excels: It can be updated for several years.

Der Nazi wrote:
> and have a decent graphics card.

But as has already been pointed out, will be soon out of date, and is non upgradable.

I know it makes a mockery of the PC, but think about it- It'll probably be internet ready, and have a decent graphics card. and the fact is, it won't crash as much as Microsoft bloody Windows.

This is an amusing joke

I like te look of the controller- very retro.

That thing looks smaller than a GC.

I'll keep my PC- I want to use the internet. And Maxx PCs are made for gaming from what I've heard. And anyway, you can get a decent joypad for around £50 with your PC.

adrian wrote:
> If you want to play PC games then get a PC.

My thoughts exactly.

And what about the picture where it shows that ugly looking gamepad? Hows anyone going to play their first person shooters on that thing? No doubt they'll ship with the gamepad, then later allow a mouse and keyboard combo for 'only an extra £20' or something.

Solskjær wrote:
> I was thinking of getting an X-Box for Championship Manager, as our
> chances of getting a new PC seem very-slim... But now, that idea may
> have to wait!

So if DISCover is going to cost £450, but the Xbox is only £130, it does not make sense.

If PC game makers want to make games appeal to a wider audience they should do console versions.

I would rather just stick to my PC.

You also need it to be internet ready, really. But so few computers are made for gaming, they're mostly for offices; The one I've got is a 2Ghz, which came with not much ram, but I upgraded it to 1 GB ram. But to play most games you'll need at least 512MB ram, 2Ghz processor and a 64 MB graphics card for it all to run smoothly.