[Lenny]

But how much does it cost to upgrade, Ven? With consoles, you spend £300 every five years, say. You can end up spending £300 every six months with a PC - new graphics card and more RAM alone can cost that much. Then you go for a new processor, which means you need to upgrade your mobo at the same time.

I paid about £850 for the components for my computer about a year and a half ago, and they were all old components (about six months old - the technology, not the physical objects). By March '07 (I built the PC in Sept '06), I'd spent another £300 on a new keyboard, mouse and graphics card, and in Sept '07 it was £100 for more RAM. This September I'm looking to build a whole new computer for about £3,000, simply because this one is getting so outdated.

I won't need to fork out a measly £500 for the PS4 (we'll be kidding ourselves if we think it'll be cheaper) until 2016. And until that point, I can buy game after game for the PS3, and they'll all work.