kiaghi7

July 17, 2010 at 8:51am

Let's face it...

 

First off, games are made on PC's... The Alpha and Omega, the Genesis of all that is videogame springs forth from PC's, without PC's five year old hand-me-downs, none of the consoles would even exist as either hardware or software equations go.

 

Second, the highest end capability is -ALWAYS- on PC's, even the PS3 which was being vaunted as the ultimate in such capability was entirely eclipsed in capability before it ever saw the light of day by the GeForce 8800... Which is considered archanic by today's standard, and thus the PS3 is as well by that much more disparity.

 

Third, consoles, ALL OF THEM, are nothing but lobotomized PC's. You are handicapped by what you can actually do with them, and they are only capable of what TV's call "high definition", for pete's sake PC's have been calling 1920x1080 -LOW RESOLUTION- for a decade now. I've got an old backup monitor that'll readily put out 2560 x 1600, let's see the Xbox360 or PS3 do that. It's really quite simple, if any of the consoles tried to run a game like Crysis (which even now isn't a real proper benchmark of a truly powerful computer) it would choke, sputter, and die under the strain.

If you don't like that the PC can do anything your console can, only far far better, then perhaps you need to come to terms with the fact that you're playing with a "child sized PC". Growing up, I loved my NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, Playstation, and so on down the line, but as I matured it necessitated a more capable tool, and that is a PC.

 

What's best of all, is that in a generation or two, when the makers of the current gen consoles have moved onto other projects and aren't as concerned (read as: litigious) on what is now considered current gen technology, PC's can readily go on to emulate the consoles. At the end of the day, your console aspires to be a real PC, but the PC has to lower itself, lose a profound amount of its capability, and generally be weakened to become what a console is.