Re: What's really been killing PC gaming?
- From: Mean_Chlorine <mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:46:04 +0100
Thusly "Kroagnon" <kroagnon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:
>He has a point. A years ago a high end video card cost $300. Now it's $500,
>even $600?
No he hasn't. No it didn't. Check old pricelists, your memory is
playing tricks on you. There's always been some insanely pricy
prestige cards. In 1997, for instance, 3dfx SLI cost almost $600, and
the top Obsidian cards roughly $2500. And yes people like Magnulus
were bitching about how insane it was that these newfangled games
"forced" them to upgrade from their cherished Matrox Millenniums.
>can't justify it. Those price points are totally unrealistic.
So don't pay them. You never, ever, need the bleeding edge.
>That being said, so far (at least in my own experience) I've never
>encounterd a game I couldn't play with settings at max or at worst, turned
>down a bit and I buy a $300 card every year or two.
Aha. And this has suddenly changed? Because I could've sworn that's
what I paid for my 6800Ultra.
>We are definitely not getting much video card for our money any more.
Actually, we're getting one hellovalot more video card for the same
amount of money.
--
"We also found that for university students, total time spent in the recent past
on video games has a potential detrimental effect on grades."
-- Anderson & Dill makes a Discovery, in 'Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts,
Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life'. 2004.
.
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