For around 40 years console games have dominated the video game market. But in the last 20 or so years, a new contender has been gaining an ever increasing share of the the market. That contender is the PC. At first PC games couldn't really compete with consoles. In the mid 90's home computers capable of competing with the consoles were available, but were still fare more expensive then consoles. When the last generation of consoles were launched, PC's and consoles were equally matched. Now five or six years later, the scales have tipped in the PC's favor in terms of price and performance. With the price staying the same, and the performance going up. Consoles however, are doing the exact opposite. Their prices are slowly going down, and their performance is staying the same (for now at least, there will of course be a short spike when the next generation of consoles launch). So, I ask you dear reader, why do we keep shelling out our hard earned dollars on consoles, and console games, when great games, and cheap hardware exist for the PC?
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