Prices to upgrade nearly any post-1997 PC:
$65 Core2Duo ("old" style)
$50 2gb ram
$75 decent mobo
$125 HD4850
$15 adapters for sata-pata drives if you're stuck in 1992
That's under $350, around the price of a console with all the extras, will play on your ginormascreen if you get an hdmi cable for it, and will play all pc->console ports far better. Except MW2, since it's a console game ported to PC...even has the Xbox360 error codes left in
It can also do one more thing most consoles can't do -
display porn on your bigscreen.
actuallyyyy...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Modern-Warfare-2-Gets-Dedicated-Servers-Workaround-127188.shtml
The developers mentioned something about adding mod/server support a little while back also.
THey also hinted that EVERYONE would love their radical changes. The only words I hear come from the developer's mouths now are "fuck your fun, we want your money". I can't wait until they release their map pack for PC - and you bitches have to pay $25 for shit that I get for free in MW1 and WaW.
In MW1 and WaW I get into games instantly, there's already MW2 maps converted to MW1, mods where they totally change the weapons (my fav was 3 attachments per weap), and I wait all of 2 seconds to start a match. Some servers have it set to just seconds between matches, so I'm playing just shortly after loading.
Fuck MW2. Only way I'll play it is on a softmodded Wii for FREE.