{"id":509,"date":"2014-04-23T03:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-04-23T05:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T05:00:51","slug":"a-value-comparison-gaming-pc-vs-playstation-4-vs-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/a-value-comparison-gaming-pc-vs-playstation-4-vs-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Value Comparison : Gaming PC vs Playstation 4 vs XBOX One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We hear a lot of console gamers complain about how much a gaming PC costs, but lets break it down a little and see what the real cost actually is. Now the following is only meant as an example, you can always manipulate data to skew the results any way you like, but we tried to approach this as fairly as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The price of PC includes assembly, setup, a mouse and keyboard and everything you need to just plug in and play, just as you would with a console. No need to assemble it yourself, no need to bargain hunt, buy second hand, source parts from multiple different stores, pirate any software, everything you need is included.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All pricing information is referenced below, we tried to take it all from the most official sources possible, (XBox Live Market Place \/ Sony Store \/ EB Games \/ Steam) and of course the PC its self is sourced from Evatech.com.au.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/a364.https.cdn.softlayer.net\/80A364\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-510 aligncenter\" alt=\"Gaming PC VS Playstation 4 VS Xbox One\" src=\"https:\/\/a364.https.cdn.softlayer.net\/80A364\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles.png\" width=\"920\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles.png 920w, https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles-300x375.png 300w, https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles-750x937.png 750w, https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PCvs-Consoles-624x780.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The PC we used in our comparison is available to customize or purchase here. (<a href=\"http:\/\/evatech.com.au\/pcsummary.php?sysid=5412\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe mouse and keyboard used with our PC was the Logitech G100S available here (<a href=\"http:\/\/evatech.com.au\/package\/3163-logitech-g100s-gaming-combo.html\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Special thanks to reddit user\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/jbg1194\" rel=\"nofollow\">jbg1194<\/a>\u00a0for great idea to break the cost down over time, it really points out just how much better value a gaming PC actually is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear a lot of console gamers complain about how much a gaming PC costs, but lets break it down a little and see what the real cost actually is. Now the following is only meant as an example, you can always manipulate data to skew the results any way you like, but we tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evatech.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}