Thursday, December 1, 2011

Are You Addicted to Gaming? A Few Tips To Help You Not Going Broke

By Juan Sanchez


If you have not looked at the price of new PC or computer games and game systems as a whole lately, you may be in for a shock. Today's games and gaming systems can run from a meager $30 all of the way to a gigantic 400 greenbacks or more. If you buy kinect for Xbox you'll see it is not inexpensive. To a loving mum of a game obsessed teen, the expenses can be astronomic and just horrifying. Fortuitously the cost of purchasing quality computer or computer games (including the systems that they run on) can be significantly reduced once you know what to do and where to look.

One alternative to funding a gaming pursuit with a 2nd home loan is to "go old." By "going old," we mean buying last month's or year's games and game machines. If you could admit the one truth that everyone knows, but never readily face, you could literally save loads of dollars in an instant. This truth is that unless you're a millionaire, none of us can afford to buy the latest toy on the market. The repulsive a reliable fact behind that truth is that within a relatively short period of time (say, 60-90 days?), that latest toy will be replaced with a new and better system, which consequently, grants access to what was wanted in the 1st place - at half of the price! So go old and have a small amount of patience. Inside about three to 4 months, you will have made an incredible saving.

When it comes to computer gaming, you might also come out better by upgrading games rather then a whole PC. It can take anywhere from a year or longer for a gaming company to release a new version and probabilities are, the upgrade does not require new hardware - it just needs a new payment. Remember, the gaming industry can't truly keep up with the PC industry either (nobody can), so there's no reason to panic or worry. Concentrate on keeping your game current instead of your system. Only in rare instances, eg if your computer is primitive to begin with, do you need to upgrade your hardware. Shop smartly and you can catch a new soundcard, joystick, or graphics card on sale. But if you have a high gigahertz processor and Direct X 9 installed, you'll do fine for quite a while.

Here's a whopper of a concept and one that probably will not take as much of an effort to convince younglings to do as you could think. But to curb the expenses of gaming, maybe a bunch of families could pitch in and share the finances together. Depending on the number in a group, the price of a new gaming system - and 5 or 6 of the hottest games - could reduce to 20% or more of their original costs.

And since gaming consoles are getting smaller and smaller, there isn't any reason why a bunch of families could not band together and trade gaming space within their homes each week or 2. This way the youngsters in the area can enjoy one or two of the new systems on the market that they could never otherwise afford, and they can enjoy them without their mother and father having to shoulder the weight of funding them alone.

Seeing that youngsters often play games together anyway, a group effort of this sort satisfies game longings at a significantly reduced cost and it keeps everybody happy.




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