5. The PC Master Race
Technology advances exponentially every year, and in the time console life cycles have rolled around, the Master Race (as they are continually being referred to, by themselves anyway) have managed to overtake the specifications of the next offerings before theyre even out. With more and more people taking their PCs and Macs into the living room to connect to increasingly-easier to set up home cinema systems, it compounds the previous money-saving point by offering the idea that a PC or Mac could be your main system of choice instead. New console games look to be at least £20/$20 more than their current generation brethren, yet with evermore PC and Mac users getting involved on ever-increasingly powerful machines, their retail costs go down whilst ours spike wildly through the inevitable launch-rush.