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If you want the most diverse gaming experience for the price, than hands down you have to go with a console. First off any games you play on a console you know will work with your system. The same can't be true for a PC depending on the graphic quality of the game and the amount of hard drive space left on your computer. If your system isn't upgraded with new components every year, the likelihood of the newest most graphically enhanced games working on your PC, the way they are supposed to, is pretty slim. However gaming platforms have already calculated what their systems need to run on every game that appears in their lineup for the console. Which means you don't have to go out and get a new graphic card, or more ram every time they come up with a new game.

Secondly you got to look at the fact that the companies that are popping out those consoles are trying their darndest to make the PC obsolete by melding their platforms into a PC in itself. All the major platforms hold a certain amount of hard drive space and in some they can hold just as much as some computers. The capability to use the Internet for on-line gaming and anything else you need to do on-line is available and in some cases an Internet connection is portable on a console. As you can see the difference between a PC and a console are not that much different anymore and for the gamer the console is becoming a more obvious choice.

As far as certain titles go that are only on the PC, the console companies are already starting to make these companies think twice before they make their titles only for the PC. Its only a matter of time before these companies see more profitability in going with systems that are console/computer hybrids, which seem to be the computers of the future. In fact it seems that multi-functioning doodads is the direction that technology in electronics is going in general, which makes no sense as a gamer to go with the traditional PC unless it complies with the growing trend of an all in one system. Console makers tend to do a better job of setting the pace of when they are going to bring out a new console. They do their research and do a good job of determining when their consumers need a faster more reliable car. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the PC industry, as they throw out the fastest things out there, at what seems like every six months to a year. Even if the fastest is only slightly faster than the last., which often makes the consumer forced to buy other components; on top of the cost of games; to be able to play the latest titles.

So, if gaming is your thing and consumes a lot of your free time, I would say that a console from the big three would probably meet your need for gaming nirvana. Hundreds of titles are available, with a lot that are set up for on-line play and comparable graphics and game play to a lot of PC favorites. With that said, if you don't own a console I would strongly advise you, in closing, to run; not walk; to your local store to pick up your little piece of console heaven and embrace the future of your gaming experience.

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