With Quantum Break going PC who is ditching the X1 in favor of a new rig?
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Hibiki Kurosawa
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I'm potentially ditching my Xbox One for my current rig. I just have to upgrade my ram.
LordBaztion
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I don't need a better PC to play Age 2, 3 or Civ V. I'm fine playing my demanding games on X1.
suddenlyissoon
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As someone who has an awesome "rig" and an Xbox One...this is a dumb thing to do. PC's are great and I much prefer to play on them but ditching your xbox (for what, $250 or less) is not going to amount to a hill of beans in a new pc. That might cover 3/4th's of the processor. Getting a nice video card now (or when Pascal comes out) will be much, much more.
Just keep your Xbox.
Just keep your Xbox.
Dude, nobody upgrades ram any more, they download it.
TVexperto
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Sounds great, since I have been thinking about buying a gaming pc for the first time. I have been a console player since I was a little child so can I get get a good gaming pc for quantum break for a thousand bucks? Will the graphics look better than on xbox one or should I just stay on consoles?
Diprosalic
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not for QB
bring Scalebound to PC and then we're talkin'
bring Scalebound to PC and then we're talkin'
Just doesn't make much sense to me, that's all. Who knows what the game's performance will be like but I'd imagine that a PC will run it better than an Xbox One.
And getting a good gaming PC for the price of a console is such an impossible thing to do... what is even the point? That the mainstream won't build a PC just because QB gets a port? That goes without saying I think.
shadowsdarknes
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I already have a nice rig minus the GPU. At this point it probably makes more sense to buy a GPU to play Gears of War 4.
Dreamgazer
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That is the whole point of this thread. People who already have a PC or prefer to have the PC version.
Why does something being console exclusive even matter?
Oh...Scalebound isn't confirmed yet?
*calms down*
Salty Hippo
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Already have a gaming PC and MS just managed to sell me all their compelling games at full price. Without this I'd only buy the system at the end of the generation with the exclusive games costing peanuts.
Sunset Samurai
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My pc can't run it so I'll stick with the x1
If you play a lot of multi format games you always have to a had a beefy rig, but a recommend PC spec cost would you at least £1000 in the UK.
I don't mind spending that much money, but you have to be prepared to upgrade at least your graphics card every 2-3 years, unless you bought a top end model, as developers optimize games better for consoles, but once you have tasted 60FPS and high resolutions it's hard to downgrade. At the end of the day exclusives are generally very shallow games, with no originality, But fancy graphics.
My main outlay this year is my trip to the States, so my PC upgrade will have to wait a bit longer
I don't mind spending that much money, but you have to be prepared to upgrade at least your graphics card every 2-3 years, unless you bought a top end model, as developers optimize games better for consoles, but once you have tasted 60FPS and high resolutions it's hard to downgrade. At the end of the day exclusives are generally very shallow games, with no originality, But fancy graphics.
My main outlay this year is my trip to the States, so my PC upgrade will have to wait a bit longer
BrokenIcarus
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I was thinking of getting an Xbone once I start my new job in a couple of weeks, but now I really don't see a reason to. Might be time to upgrade my 570 instead.
It's definitely adding value to my pre-existing plan to make a new PC in the medium-term. It's the same thing that happened during my last build in 2008: the amount of software I couldn't play on PlayStation platforms started to build up, even as that remained steady. Certainly Quantum Break combined with a potential Scalebound release goes a long way to making me enthused, even as I'm content without a PC for the time being.
Cmon man. If your PC runs W3 well it'll run this really well, too. Certainly better than an Xbox.
I wish we could just do away with recommended specs. That or find a way to standardize what they mean. It's insane as it is.
Why does it matter? Because many of us DON'T have a gaming PC and prefer consoles. Furthermore, the thread is asking if you will ditch your Xbox One in order to build a rig. I simply do not see the point in doing that, as the games that you bought your Xbox One for are still console exclusive just as they were. But if you already have a good rig and would rather play here, then great. Now you can.
Branniganz Love
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Have no interest in spending the time or money to upgrade my PC. I'm just fine sticking with my consoles.
That's what I would do too. Plus the recommended specs being utterly delusional... It should run just fine on XBO. I'm not entirely convinced those specs are quite right and I'm playing on an HD Ready TV, so my GTX 770 should play it fine. Unless this is the new Crysis which would also be pretty fun.
You're assuming that Quantum Break is going to be the only worthwhile XB1 game for the duration of the generation. Do what works best for you though. I'm surprised you bought an XB1 in the first place. Didn't seem like a good investment for you considering you seemed disappointed with 99% of what Microsoft was doing before and after your purchase. With that in mind, I'd just sell it.
amdb00mer
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No. I will however play these games on both. Especially since my X1 purchase will net me the Win 10 version free. I actually hope they share cloud saves. With my X1 I know the game will work without the need to tweak settings, but it would be cool to try and run some of them at 4k on my rig. The reason consoles will always exist for games is the ease of putting the disc in the drive and play, well after it installs the assets to the HDD.
EvilAlPacino
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I'm happy with the console version.
Really surprised that, even on GAF, people believe they're getting their console at a bargain hardware-wise compared to a similarly priced PC.
You do understand that you're paying for what you get right, no more, and often time with console and their life cycle being longer than PC hardware, actually less.
You can build a computer (a tower) for the price of an Xbox One, which will out-perform it by a large margin. If you guys are curious, I can find a few links from some months ago, when someone did this for Battlefield Hardline.
You do understand that you're paying for what you get right, no more, and often time with console and their life cycle being longer than PC hardware, actually less.
You can build a computer (a tower) for the price of an Xbox One, which will out-perform it by a large margin. If you guys are curious, I can find a few links from some months ago, when someone did this for Battlefield Hardline.
If you get digital Bone version you get PC version with it.
CassidyIzABeast
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Not gonna sell my XB1. I'm just not going to buy a NextBox.
Already have an i7/980Ti Classified setup.
Keeping my Xbox One....so not me.
I'm also not getting rid of my 360, despite backwards compatibility that gives me some games across two systems.
Also keeping my PS1, Atari 2600, my other two gaming PCs, my gaming Laptop, our Wii U, my Vita, Dreamcast, Genesis, 32x, DS, etc....
...any other systems you think I might want to drop?
Keeping my Xbox One....so not me.
I'm also not getting rid of my 360, despite backwards compatibility that gives me some games across two systems.
Also keeping my PS1, Atari 2600, my other two gaming PCs, my gaming Laptop, our Wii U, my Vita, Dreamcast, Genesis, 32x, DS, etc....
...any other systems you think I might want to drop?
styl3s
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I just fully upgraded my rig like 6 months ago and although now that the only exclusive i really wanted (MS, why u no continue Phantom Dust?) is coming say day (we all knew it would come some day at least) it's tempting to just go sell it i am holding off till E3 because i make that plunge.
Besides, i would only get $200-230 since all my games are digital and it's not worth the hassle of having to turn around and buy another one when another exclusive comes out. I would rather just clean it off every once and awhile to play the newest exclusive.
Besides, i would only get $200-230 since all my games are digital and it's not worth the hassle of having to turn around and buy another one when another exclusive comes out. I would rather just clean it off every once and awhile to play the newest exclusive.
GinoFelino
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Well, I'm not exactly ditching the X1, but I had always planned on getting one eventually.
With Crackdown and Scalebound on the way and the console price going lower and lower, the time would come when there's too many good games on it for me to pass up.
Now, with GOW4, Scalebound and QB going to PC, I'm much more likely to forego getting an Xbone and just play those games on PC. I was planning to build a PC this year anyway.
I think the long-term effects of this decision are much greater than some people here are saying. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that had planned on getting one eventually but is dissuaded by this move.
There's very few reasons left to get an X1 now.
With Crackdown and Scalebound on the way and the console price going lower and lower, the time would come when there's too many good games on it for me to pass up.
Now, with GOW4, Scalebound and QB going to PC, I'm much more likely to forego getting an Xbone and just play those games on PC. I was planning to build a PC this year anyway.
I think the long-term effects of this decision are much greater than some people here are saying. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that had planned on getting one eventually but is dissuaded by this move.
There's very few reasons left to get an X1 now.
Bitch Pudding
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You don't need "recommended" specs to run QB with XBOX One quality.
petethepanda
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Thinking about selling my Bone to go towards a new mobo+cpu (my 970 is doing okay - not as well as I'd like - but my i5 3570k seems to hold me back more and more). It's the right move for MS to put games on both Xbox and PC as the majority of gamers don't have both and it only means more sales, but as someone who does have both, I have practically no reason to actually use my Xbox anymore. It's been a dedicated Sunset Overdrive & Rare Replay box.
QB was hilariously the most influential part of me picking up the console last year, even figuring it'd come to PC someday I wanted to play it day one (same thing I did for Alan Wake on 360; <3 Remedy 4-eva xoxoxo), but now that I do get to play it up front on PC, I'm kind of kicking myself, lol.
QB was hilariously the most influential part of me picking up the console last year, even figuring it'd come to PC someday I wanted to play it day one (same thing I did for Alan Wake on 360; <3 Remedy 4-eva xoxoxo), but now that I do get to play it up front on PC, I'm kind of kicking myself, lol.
LostDonkey
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Nope. I will be keeping mine as I'll probably double dip and there's still games I can't play on PC that are on Xbox. Plus most of my online buds are on Xbox, my PC is more of a single player wow look at the graphics on that shit, experience.
SEGAvangelist
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For just one game? Not likely. I play too much Halo 5 to ever thinking about ditching my XB1.
I'm curious. Xbox one BUNDLES with multiple games are currently $300. Make a PC with an xbox one controller for that much.