I disagree. Most games can be played across multiple platforms and hardware has everything to do with gameplay. If you look at the graphical difference between systems, XBox has superior visuals. As for game manipulation (hand controller), the Wii has a unique and very 'active' take on gameplay. A 'hardcore' gamer will take all things into account before buying a system. And only after careful consideration will they buy all of the consoles because they are a hardcore gamer and that's what they do.
Run a search on "Call of Duty 3 - Xbox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii Comparison" and you'll see the difference between hardware. If hardware doesn't matter, save on your budget and stick to your 8-bit games. I rest my case.
Users are absolutely responsible for what they do on their computer. To say its a distributer's responsability is to say I'm driving a car and if it crashes, its the distributer's responsability that nothing gets damaged and nobody gets hurt. It just doesn't make sense. But as for privacy and freedom of information, you should be able to download anything.. its information and a lot of times you don't know the legitimacy of a file. If you found a file called, "fglalis.avi" you wouldn't know if it was legal or not. The host of that file would know this, and they are responsible for that. Now if someone downloaded that file and it was illegal, and then hosted that file for other people... that would hold the original downloader responsible. A lot of times people don't know that what they download gets marked as 'shared' for other people. But its every user's responsability to know what their computer is doing.
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I disagree. Most games can be played across multiple platforms and hardware has everything to do with gameplay. If you look at the graphical difference between systems, XBox has superior visuals. As for game manipulation (hand controller), the Wii has a unique and very 'active' take on gameplay. A 'hardcore' gamer will take all things into account before buying a system. And only after careful consideration will they buy all of the consoles because they are a hardcore gamer and that's what they do. Run a search on "Call of Duty 3 - Xbox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii Comparison" and you'll see the difference between hardware. If hardware doesn't matter, save on your budget and stick to your 8-bit games. I rest my case.
Users are absolutely responsible for what they do on their computer. To say its a distributer's responsability is to say I'm driving a car and if it crashes, its the distributer's responsability that nothing gets damaged and nobody gets hurt. It just doesn't make sense. But as for privacy and freedom of information, you should be able to download anything.. its information and a lot of times you don't know the legitimacy of a file. If you found a file called, "fglalis.avi" you wouldn't know if it was legal or not. The host of that file would know this, and they are responsible for that. Now if someone downloaded that file and it was illegal, and then hosted that file for other people... that would hold the original downloader responsible.
A lot of times people don't know that what they download gets marked as 'shared' for other people. But its every user's responsability to know what their computer is doing.