Games on Xbox&PSN cost around 40Gbp

On Steam sale you could get around 5-10 great games for the price of one decent xbox/psn game. And there are plenty of great free games.

When a new console comes out lets say the xbox one the price is around 400GBP +
Give it a few years a new console comes out and the current console is around 150 to buy.

When it comes to PC you upgrade around 2 parts of your PC probably come to around 250 after selling your other parts, and your PC will beat the new console in performance. So in the end PC does work out cheaper, and said above you have a lot more flexibility. PC's can be used for a lot more things then consoles. If you wanted to record you wouldn't really need any equipment except for a mic as you can find free software on PC.

But also as said above your friends can play a big part on what to go with, but you will find in the pc community(Not Gmod community) People are a lot more mature and you will make friends instead of being told to f u k off by a bunch of 5 year olds on COD.

I Can't play Xbox for long any more as i have my pc and I'd much rather play that then fifa or cod or gta etc..

But take everyone's points into consideration and make your mind up, but PC has my vote.

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