hahaha same here. I was like... Well... he will either find this hilarious or think it is the dumbest thing he has ever seen lol I lucked out by buying my friends brothers old 1800 dollar rig for 200 bucks :) but if you think about how many different things you can use a computer for it isn't hard to justify spending a bit more than $200 for something that... 1. outperforms current gen 2. has controller support also 3. has crazy ass steam sales (I'm talking $5 for skyrim and $7.50 for BL1 and all four DLCs which would have cost me 60 on xbox live) and 4. play online without a subscription fee 5. can be used for whatever you want. My main gaming platform now also lets me record and produce music, manage my collection, surf the internet, skype and talk on the phone without having a phone, type up papers etc. Plus there is a ton of info on the internet about cost effective options when building a PC