Awesome new console coming soon!

[A Black Falcon]

My computer is two years and four months old and it runs stuff competently... I did upgrade RAM threefold (128 to 384) after a year and a half, but other than that I've only added a harddrive. And it's only now that games that really push it are out... now sure if you're playing top FPSes you would have hit a celing with my comp a while back, but I don't.

I'd say that for PCs if you want to be able to run everything, no problems (with maybe some cutting down of some options late in the cycle but not much) with the top games, you've got to have a two year replacement cycle. If you do the 'wait until it barely runs current games' thing, then you can go three or four...

You just answered most of it yourself. Less maintenance, much lower price, etc. But the one thing that you still fail to grasp is ease-of-use and practicality. How many people have their PCs right next to their tvs? How many people have their PCs and TVs set up in a way in which they can play their PCs on their TVs like they would a console? Probably none, I'm guessing. Do I need to crack out the sign language again?

True, PCs are usually in a place where you use them by yourself while consoles go by TVs in a social area... that is true. And yes, those areas are often far apart... but you could get a long cable... hey, I'm talking about people who do know what they are doing here and that probably wouldn't be a big obstacle.

And as for people who don't know PCs, as I said, I don't care about them.

True, if they make it easy for people to write or obtain their own scripts then it can still be a great console for amateur game designers.

We'll see how open they make it. But yes, I hope they make it easy... I don't know if they want to do some quality control thing or something like the console companies do...