Special report:The huge cost of gaming

(Exclusive) - The price of gaming has defintely increased over the last few years. Gaming has changed a lot. From the early years of using catridges to today's modern powerful computers and the ever-powerful Xbox 360 console, you know it all. Indeed, as technology advances, game graphics got better and sharper and the cost of making a game will no doubt increase too. With that, the prices of games went up and we have to fork out more money for our favorite games. I have to say that the most expensive way of gaming is PC gaming. Every now and then, new PC games come out with more demanding requirements than before. What happens next? Many PC gamers start to upgrade their computers to usher in the new demanding PC games. Costly graphics cards, more memory for the computer, to name a few. If you are looking for a less expensive way of gaming, then I suggest you should convert to console-gaming instead. The price of the consoles is a farcry from the dear PC gaming rigs that PC gamers like to build. This situation is very real, at least with the various PC gaming magazines in the market. Every year, there will be one dream PC. The 'PC of the year' headlines seem too common for me now as the the magazine staff seem to be building gaming rigs all the time. Looking at the price tag of the gaming rigs that the magazine staff built, I know that I will never be able to afford such an expensive computer. Okay, back to console gaming. Yes, the console is cheaper than upgrading your PC yearly for gaming. But, I urge you to consider this: Do you ever realise that the price of the console games are always so much higher than that of PC games? This makes the price of gaming on PC and on console awfully balanced. You save on the console, but you need to splurge on the games. You splurge on the PC upgrades, but you save on the games. Get the equation? Of course, there is always an easier way to game. The video games machines that are available to public, but those may not cater to your thirst for gaming. Then, there are the places where you meet up with your friends for LAN gaming. However, I have to say that if you go there too often, then the cost of gaming will still be the same. What I was trying to drive at writing this entire article is that the cost of gaming has gone up to a high since the early years. You can bet that gaming cost will continue to rise in the future. With the impending release of PlayStation 3 next year, my guess that gaming cost will still continue to increase will likely be right.

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