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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rudy" data-source="post: 77716" data-attributes="member: 1233">No idea where you've been ordering games from, but new PC games are usually sold between £20-£28 as opposed to console games which will retail about ten pounds more per game, yes there are exceptions to the rule like Call of Duty, but Call of Duty is unreasonably priced no matter what format you get it in. If the next generation reduces the prices of games then fair enough, but given the rising costs of developing games, it's not like developers are going to say it's alright to sell games £10 less than they used to.But the big difference between PC gaming and console gaming is the sales and libraries of games. You know those games you bought back in 2003? yep, you can still play those on PC and will probably be able to play those in 10 years time, whereas you'd need your original console to play most console games given the lack of cross compatibility. What's more, different retailers will sell games with steam keys so it's not even as if Steam holds the monopoly on games, for example I got Hitman Absolution the other month through the Square Enix site for about £5 which came with a steam key. Plus the prices of older games are usually fair (and get fairer still with Steam sales) and don't just stay at £30-50 forever like so many Xbox games on demand.Not getting at you personally, but if you want games then it's probably to invest in a gaming PC instead of waiting for the next generation of games consoles / Steam box. The big reason why I don't think the Steam box will take off either? Well, given that the console will be developed by Valve, unless they spend ridiculous sums of money on getting a Microsoft type OS the platform will run from Linux and you only have to browse the steam store through Linux to realise how few games there actually are for it.</blockquote>

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