You know Nuggetol these days you are probably right, pc's have more shelf life today. I haven't bought a game machine since about 98 and back then your stuff was obsolete before you got it home. I went through five chipsets from 89 to 98. That last desktop I got in 01 I did upgrade a few times but there is no way I could have played the latest and greatest at the highest res for the 8 years I used it. My point was more you can't upgrade a console therefore you have no desire to upgrade your console and therefore you save hundreds. Yes upgrading is cheaper but it's not 300 bucks a new console costs every five years cheaper. This laptop I bought for 400 bucks will last me 10 years unless they make some new technology I just gotta have (and I'm lucky and it doesn't break). As far as using it right, I know how to build them so that they work right, but that 32 mb nvidia G-card I built into a pc I made in 98 and re-used 01 on a new machine I used until 09 when I got this laptop just ain't going to cut it these days and the best g-card out there right now costs more than an xbox, nevermind the motherboard and all that. PC's have more potential than a console, always will. But I just got sick of thinking about how I can get that higher res, or what I need to be able to check that last box in the G options. It never ends.

thunder350 said: "Guess console fans will have to wait and shell out more cash for a ENTIRE new system once the PS4/Xbox3..." That beats the heck out of buying a new pc at 2000 bucks for one that will play with the res turned up. My 360 was \$300, my laptop was \$400 after rebate (that I did get finally) and if it's a 360 game it plays as good on my 360 as it will on any other 360 in the world and I never have to wonder how much it will cost me to really see it run at it's best. No compatibility issues w/ certain cards either. Besides not being able to play on the couch cause you gotta hunch over that crappy keyboard really stinks. Get with the program, PC as a platform is dead. It's so 20th century. PC is for WOW dorks. Oh, we'll have to buy a new system? Yeah maybe...You'll just need a new G-card, RAM, oh a new M-board for the new better RAM they just invented. How fast is the fastest this month? When I stopped buying PC's to play games on when the first xbox came out PC's went from lasting me 18 months till I just had to have a new one to my first XP pc from 01 finally needing to be replaced in 09, and that was only cause I wanted a laptop. Abandoning the pc as a game platform is the best gaming decision I ever made. I haven't had to open a pc in years and my pc is now what it should be, an appliance. Instead of a never ending shop project and money pit. So who else on the dragon age page was trying to figure out on which system the boobs in the last picture looked better on?