• Alienware: “consoles are looking more and more like PCs every day”
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[url]http://www.pcgamesn.com/alienware-consoles-are-looking-more-and-more-pcs-every-day[/url]
well, they are. They're literally PCs built mainly to play video games. The only reason they're cheaper than your average gaming PC is because they use hardware and software that's developed by the company that makes the console (mostly), rather than shelling out a few extra hundred dollars per machine so they won't get their asses sued for using someone else's hardware and OS.
You mean more and more like pc's ever half decade.
I've decided my last computer before college is gonna be an x51, it's pretty much got what I planning to do for my last build, and it's smaller than the Prodigy I was gonna do, auto booting to big picture is kinda like the PS3 and Xbox screens, heck with windows 8 it's almost right there. My opinion of course.
[QUOTE=Cows Rule;41203987]I've decided my last computer before college is gonna be an x51, it's pretty much got what I planning to do for my last build, and it's smaller than the Prodigy I was gonna do, auto booting to big picture is kinda like the PS3 and Xbox screens, heck with windows 8 it's almost right there. My opinion of course.[/QUOTE] The hardware is pretty shitty, a lot of it is laptop parts from what I've seen. The form factor is pretty nice, but a Prodigy build is probably the best way to go.
Yeah but the Prodigy is really just shorter, it's still wide, (wider than my current case actually, I can't fit it in the same space). And the specs are almost exactly the same as what I was gonna do, so I don't completely see the difference in getting the x51 or doing it myself.
Holy hell, what a revelation. Alienware has finally found its purpose in the market: investigative console journalism.
And Alienware computers still look like a bad deal to everyone with common sense.
[QUOTE=Jackald;41203302]Also the Microsoft and Sony sell their consoles at a loss; they don't make any profit on selling the console itself, they make the money from their cut from games that get bought. Whereas alienware and so on get their money from building the pc and selling them for a profit.[/QUOTE] that was when they were designing machines to play games, now however besides the graphic card, most of the components are really cheap, so they are looking at actually selling their devices without loss, or very close to it. The console sells for $599, analysts before the console went on pre-sale added up the price of the components and found that the actual box costs ~270$ to make, [url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/06/04/analyst-puts-a-price-tag-on-xbox-one-and-ps4/[/url] microsoft isn't going to take any loss on this, just glad to see PCs getting what was due, even if it is comming from the guys that make top notch hardware [editline]27th June 2013[/editline] also wouldn't it be funny if valve actually does release a "steam box" and its like not even close to competing against all the unofficial "steam boxes"
[QUOTE=Van-man;41211475]And Alienware computers still look like a bad deal to everyone with common sense.[/QUOTE] If it were common sense they would be out of business.
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