Console or PC?
Hello all. I have a bit of a dilemma that could use some more experienced advice.
I bought this laptop of mine a year and a half ago. In my foolishness, I didn't think I'd be playing games anymore. Well, I was wrong. It worked for a while with the Mass Effect series. Then came Geralt. Witcher 1 worked, but Witcher 2, even on minimum settings, ran at such disappointing FPS that I stopped playing during the holy-crap-awesome assault-prologue, to save the experience for a better time.
This series has me so hooked that I'm actually willing to get whatever hardware is necessary to run Witcher 3 properly, and I told myself that I'll wait with playing Witcher 2, until said upgrade. And here's the dilemma: XBox One, or new PC?
The thing that attracts me about the XBox (never owned a console, btw) is that it seems user-friendly for the hardware-illiterate like myself. From the day I buy it, if I understand correctly, I won't need to bother myself anymore with whether or not my system meets the game's requirements. With PC, there'll always be that doubt, and over time, it'll fail to max games properly. A PC's life expectancy seems to be much lower than a console's. Correct me if I'm wrong, since this is just my impression, not some careful observation. Also, while the system requirements of Witcher 3 haven't been announced yet, it's safe to assume that an XBox One would be cheaper than a PC that could max the game's settings, right?
Downside of XBox: to begin with, as far as I know, there hasn't been any announcement on modifying Witcher 2 to work in XBox One, right? If that's the case, I'll be stuck without a way to play Witcher 2, and buying XBox 360 just for one game seems a bit excessive. Secondly, Steam. Console games always seem much more expensive. The idea of having cheaper games, as well as having them available anywhere I go without any need for a CD seems like a big advantage towards the PC.
Advice?
Hello all. I have a bit of a dilemma that could use some more experienced advice.
I bought this laptop of mine a year and a half ago. In my foolishness, I didn't think I'd be playing games anymore. Well, I was wrong. It worked for a while with the Mass Effect series. Then came Geralt. Witcher 1 worked, but Witcher 2, even on minimum settings, ran at such disappointing FPS that I stopped playing during the holy-crap-awesome assault-prologue, to save the experience for a better time.
This series has me so hooked that I'm actually willing to get whatever hardware is necessary to run Witcher 3 properly, and I told myself that I'll wait with playing Witcher 2, until said upgrade. And here's the dilemma: XBox One, or new PC?
The thing that attracts me about the XBox (never owned a console, btw) is that it seems user-friendly for the hardware-illiterate like myself. From the day I buy it, if I understand correctly, I won't need to bother myself anymore with whether or not my system meets the game's requirements. With PC, there'll always be that doubt, and over time, it'll fail to max games properly. A PC's life expectancy seems to be much lower than a console's. Correct me if I'm wrong, since this is just my impression, not some careful observation. Also, while the system requirements of Witcher 3 haven't been announced yet, it's safe to assume that an XBox One would be cheaper than a PC that could max the game's settings, right?
Downside of XBox: to begin with, as far as I know, there hasn't been any announcement on modifying Witcher 2 to work in XBox One, right? If that's the case, I'll be stuck without a way to play Witcher 2, and buying XBox 360 just for one game seems a bit excessive. Secondly, Steam. Console games always seem much more expensive. The idea of having cheaper games, as well as having them available anywhere I go without any need for a CD seems like a big advantage towards the PC.
Advice?