Solo4114
Master Member
I'm in a somewhat similar position, Neil.
I have a 360 that I basically don't game on anymore. I still have a few games for it that I think I "ought" to play through (e.g., the Assassins Creed Ezio trilogy -- finished AC2, started AC: Brotherhood, and have AC: Revelations). Mostly I use the 360 as my Netflix/Amazon Prime Video streaming machine, and that's because the 360 is more responsive than my TV or Blu Ray player, both of which can do the same thing.
When I first got it, the 360 served as the thing that kept me from needing to upgrade my PC. I basically transitioned my gaming from a 2001-era PC to the 360, and it lasted me a good long while. I upgraded my PC in 2010 to something that was not bleeding edge, but high-end current generation. I haven't looked at upgrading either since then. After my PC upgrade, I basically went back to playing games on the PC. If a game is multiplatform, I almost always buy it on PC (albeit, at a discount like during a Steam sale).
My 360 runs fine currently. My PC runs fine, too. But I'm also starting to see that newer games...don't run wonderfully on my PC anymore, and they aren't coming out for 360. For example, I picked up Watch_Dogs in a Steam sale for dirt cheap. Now, it's a poorly optimized port for the PC, but still, I have to seriously drop settings to get it to run comfortably. I like it, of course, but it's not as pretty as it "should" be. I can't max the settings, basically. Had I not been able to find it on deep discount, I wouldn't have been able to justify buying Mad Max (which I just installed but haven't played). My system didn't meet the minimum specs. I won't be able to run Fallout 4, and I haven't bothered with The Witcher 3. Battlefront is right out, too, I have no doubt.
So, basically, I'm finding that it's upgrade time. Personally, I lean towards upgrading the PC, but an XB1 is significantly cheaper than a new PC (even without a new monitor)! So, I'm vacillating. I resolved, however, not to buy anything until Christmas or after New Years when the end-of-fiscal-year sales will go into overdrive. I'm also not upgrading a PC until at least that time, because whatever I get will likely come with Win10, and I want to see the bugs shake out on that platform, too.
I think, honestly, at this point you're better waiting. I definitely wouldn't buy a system JUST for one game. Battlefront will be fun, but it won't be revolutionary. And it may well suck. Give it a few months after it comes out to see what people think after the shine is off and DICE has let some bug drag on for, like, 4 months with the forums complaining about it. Wait and see how unbalanced the [blahblahblah] class/weapon/whatever is, or how XYZ map sucks for defenders or whatever.
I have a 360 that I basically don't game on anymore. I still have a few games for it that I think I "ought" to play through (e.g., the Assassins Creed Ezio trilogy -- finished AC2, started AC: Brotherhood, and have AC: Revelations). Mostly I use the 360 as my Netflix/Amazon Prime Video streaming machine, and that's because the 360 is more responsive than my TV or Blu Ray player, both of which can do the same thing.
When I first got it, the 360 served as the thing that kept me from needing to upgrade my PC. I basically transitioned my gaming from a 2001-era PC to the 360, and it lasted me a good long while. I upgraded my PC in 2010 to something that was not bleeding edge, but high-end current generation. I haven't looked at upgrading either since then. After my PC upgrade, I basically went back to playing games on the PC. If a game is multiplatform, I almost always buy it on PC (albeit, at a discount like during a Steam sale).
My 360 runs fine currently. My PC runs fine, too. But I'm also starting to see that newer games...don't run wonderfully on my PC anymore, and they aren't coming out for 360. For example, I picked up Watch_Dogs in a Steam sale for dirt cheap. Now, it's a poorly optimized port for the PC, but still, I have to seriously drop settings to get it to run comfortably. I like it, of course, but it's not as pretty as it "should" be. I can't max the settings, basically. Had I not been able to find it on deep discount, I wouldn't have been able to justify buying Mad Max (which I just installed but haven't played). My system didn't meet the minimum specs. I won't be able to run Fallout 4, and I haven't bothered with The Witcher 3. Battlefront is right out, too, I have no doubt.
So, basically, I'm finding that it's upgrade time. Personally, I lean towards upgrading the PC, but an XB1 is significantly cheaper than a new PC (even without a new monitor)! So, I'm vacillating. I resolved, however, not to buy anything until Christmas or after New Years when the end-of-fiscal-year sales will go into overdrive. I'm also not upgrading a PC until at least that time, because whatever I get will likely come with Win10, and I want to see the bugs shake out on that platform, too.
I think, honestly, at this point you're better waiting. I definitely wouldn't buy a system JUST for one game. Battlefront will be fun, but it won't be revolutionary. And it may well suck. Give it a few months after it comes out to see what people think after the shine is off and DICE has let some bug drag on for, like, 4 months with the forums complaining about it. Wait and see how unbalanced the [blahblahblah] class/weapon/whatever is, or how XYZ map sucks for defenders or whatever.