I understand what your talking about but to save on confusing others and time. I research everything before hand. Overclocking is your friend. Yes, pc can be a lot more but what you don't hear is how much it really cost Microsoft to make the Xbox 360 and even the Xbox One. same with the Ps3 and Ps4. These companies are not making money on systems at launch. Microsoft lost a lot of money on the Xbox gambe and also with the xbox 360. They sell these units cheap so that way eveyone buys them. The real money made comes from the games and the dlc. When a motherboard is made and available they include several models. Its worth researching this and seeing what each one has. It is not always the best decision to get the cheapest motherboard. I usually buy the middle of the pack and look at what it offers and see if that motherboard can be upgraded. This will save you money in the end. Pc hardware prices change about every 3 months. Keep this in mind and with the release of new hardware. RAM in general may seem expensive but most games dont even use that much. You dont need anything more than 8GB of ddr and even then that is a lot. The different speeds drive up the cost. Same thing with processors. You see six core and even eight core but in reality most games don't even use more than 4 cores at most with a full load. You really only need the most extreme pc processing if your doing 3d renderring. Graphics cards and it goes for all pc components. Just look at the big picture. My pc I built 6 years ago still outperforms the 360 and only paid $400 for it not including monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even then what made that pc last was overclocking it. This new pc build was even greater but its so much power its not neccesary but Im crazy like that. I can ultra every game out there. I built my pc for a 3 screen setup and just waiting on another gtx 680 4gb. Also the game that your playing on xbox and even ps3 is not even running at its actual screen resolution. Its a trick the companies like that use. At best your actually getting 1152x640 or sometimes higher. The so called 1920x1080 your getting is just an upscaling. Also the lack of anti-alising and several other things. You can test this by running a the same game on pc and ps3 or xbox 360. Why is that the pc version is better because it uses the correct format and gpu is better. I am not hating on console games. Shit I probably own more console games than anyone I know. Currently over 60 360 games. If you dont care about graphics and smooth gameplay and dont want to configure a pc or learn then by all means get the console. Thats why I like consoles because they are simple. The lack of not being able to upgrade them is stupid. I would love to put more RAM in my 360. The slowdowns are horrible and most 360 games are under 30fps. While on the pc I can always get a solid 60fps. Well either way both are great options depending on the person. I just notice that stuff so that why I switched over to the pc world. It also depends on the game developer if they actually know how utilize the 360 and ps3 potential. lol. ok end. I could go on for a long time but Im sure you don't want to hear me.