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On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 3:38:03 PM UTC-7, Werner Punz wrote:
> Am 02.11.16 um 00:30 schrieb PW:
> 
> >
> > Thank you Werner.  I guess I will wait a bit.
> >
> Hi Paul
> 
> the third, El Cheapo option would be simply to buy the console shortly 
> after its lifetime is over.
> 
> Every console has after the end of its lifetime around 10-15 exklusives 
> which never make it to the PC and which are worthwhile playing.
> The good thing doing this is, you can get everything for a minimum 
> amount of money, because most people try to get rid of the old hardware 
> to make room for the new one.
> If you dont buy it in an overpriced shop like Gamestop, you might end up 
> on a bugdet this way.
> 
> You will end up with the console for around 100-150 bucks with some 
> games already thrown in and the rest of the games you want will go 
> likely second hand with 5-10 bucks per game.
> 
> I recently did that with a PS3 slim, and ended up spending around 200 
> bucks for a full collection and the console.
> (everything bought over second hand sources but nothing from Gamestop 
> which I personally think is a ripoff)

I bought an xbox 360 at the beginning of the year for my son that way $100 came with GTA IV & V, Sleeping Dogs, Fallout IV, and a couple others (I have GTA IV & Fallout IV on the PC already so wasn't really  much of a bonus in that respect) Quite a few of the games were more impressive than I would've thought for a console.  

I did the same with a Wii the year before, but have been pretty disappointed with the games on it, there's really only one game my son likes, and neither me or my wife have found any we like.

I would warn though that pretty much all the good games are more expensive than they are on the PC - I've gotten some of the Lego games my son plays on Steam sales for as low as $5, but can't find most of them for less than $20 on the Xbox, some quite a bit more. That adds up quickly if you play may games.  Some of the really good obscure games that aren't on the PC actually go up in price too.  I remember there was a PS2 game I wanted but it was sitting around $100 last I looked.  Of course you can recoup some of that reselling/trading games once done with them.  

It's also a heck of a lot easier/convenient to just buy the electronic version of games on steam etc. (at least if you have broadband.) and nice not to have to constantly change and store disks.  With all the freebies going on easy to pick up plenty of older games, and demos seem to be making a comeback.  

I understand the Xbox is going more toward electronic distribution, but what games I've wanted so far have been mostly unavailable or significantly more expensive that way.

A full good gaming computer will cost around $1000 without going overboard, but will have a much longer life.  the cpu I've got was released 9 years ago, though I am really feeling the need to update mine, I've never had anywhere near that kind of life from a console.  Of course I've updated my gpu 3 times in that period, and that alone costs nearly what a console does.  Computer advances have been slowing though, and a new one will probably last even longer before updating.  

The other advantage of the computer is you can do quite a bit more with it than game.

- Justisaur