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Monday, January 30, 2012

The Skyrocketing Cost Of Playing Computer Games

By Juan Sanchez


If you haven't looked at the cost of new computer or video console games and game systems as a whole latterly, you may be in for a shock. Today's games and games systems can run from a meager $30 all of the way to a gigantic four hundred bucks or even more. To a loving mother of a game obsessed teen, the costs can be astronomical and nothing short of terrifying. Fortuitously the price of buying quality computer or computer console games (including the systems that they run on) can be significantly reduced once you know what to do and where to look. If you read my Xbox Kinect Review you'll see this system is pretty inexpensive.

One alternate choice to funding a gaming pursuit with a 2nd mortgage is to "go old." By "going old," we mean purchasing last month's or year's games and game systems. If you might admit the one truth that everyone knows, but never readily face, you might literally save hundreds of dollars in an instant.

This truth is that unless you're a millionaire, not one of us can afford to buy the most recent toy on the market. The repugnant fact behind that truth is that inside a relatively short quantity of time (say, 60-90 days?), that latest toy will get replaced with a latest and greatest system, which subsequently, grants access to what was wanted in the 1st place - at half the price! So go old and have a small amount of patience. Inside about 3 to four months, you will have made an amazing saving.

When it comes to computer gaming, you may also come out better by upgrading games rather then a whole computer. It can take anywhere from a year or more for a gaming company to release a new version and possibilities are, the upgrade does not need new hardware - it just requires a new payment. Remember, the gaming industry can't actually stay abreast of the PC industry either (no one can), so there is no reason to panic or worry. Concentrate on keeping your game current rather than your system.

Only in rare instances, for example if your computer is primitive to start with, will you need to upgrade your hardware. Shop sensibly and you can catch a new soundcard, joystick, or graphics card on sale. But if you've got a high gigahertz processor and Direct X 9 installed, you'll do great for quite a while.

Here's a whopper of a concept and one that probably will not take as much of an attempt to convince younglings to do as you may think. But to curb the costs of gaming, perhaps a bunch of families could pitch in and share the finances together. Depending on the number in a group, the price of a new games system - and 5 or 6 of the most well liked games - could reduce to 20% or more of their original costs.

And since gaming consoles are getting smaller and smaller, there's no reason why a group of families could not band together and trade gaming space within their homes every week or 2. This way the kids in the area can enjoy 1 or 2 of the new systems on the market that they could never otherwise afford, and they can enjoy them without their mother and father having to shoulder the weight of funding them alone.

Seeing that children typically play games together anyhow, a group effort of this sort satisfies game cravings at a noticeably reduced cost and it keeps everybody happy.




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