We all know you can game on a $450 at higher FPS and graphics than a curent gen Console.
But that's comparing Hardware that costs $450 right now to Hardware that costs $400 when it was new. (20GB Premium) But how much would a Gaming PC cost in 2006 to tlay GTA IV?
The X1900 XT did cost $279 back in 2006 and the Core 2 Duo T5600 was $241 (and that was cheaper than the AMD CPU requirement) and even with that hardware, the game still looked like crap and that doesn't even count the cost of a hard drive, the price of RAM was more expensive back then and Vista. I remember it cost me $75 to upgrade my computer from 512MB to 3GB in 2008 and that was DDR1.
I know if I spend $500 worth of Parts, it will be better than the most expensive Xbox360 Bundle, but let's pretend the Xbox720 comes out in 2015, how much will a Gaming PC cost in 2015 in order to play any Xbox720 Game that's ported to PC? (There's no answer for that untill it's out in the market, but if the same thing happens, it can be a $1,000 Gaming PC)