It's not like you don't have updates for consoles. The ps3 has frequent updates that can take quite some time to download and install, and these are the first of many more ultra-advanced consoles to come. The fact is that consoles are becoming more like PC's, and PC's are adapting towards more user friendly interfaces (i.e. Games for Windows). In my opinion, the future for PC's and consoles will be more of a merge than a clear victory for one.
Besides, we're always going to need PC's. People have work to do, people to IM, and pr0n to watch. The only way for a console to compete with the PC is if it were to offer similar capabilities, but then it would just become yet another PC. I think the reason PC's and consoles used to be separate was because PC's didn't have enough graphical capability to play games, and it was difficult to plug your PC into a normal TV. But now that graphics cards are starting to come out with HDMI and TV Out ports, there really isn't anything left for consoles other than their simple user-interfaces. But if we look at the jump from XP to Vista and the increasing popularity of Mac OS's, we can already see a shift towards more simple to use, yet powerful, operating systems.
I guess my main point here is that we better pray that the porn industry doesn't make a console.
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Now if we just replace the argon with trilithium isotopes and turn that magnetic "puck" into some form of rail-gun, we'll have plasma torpedoes!
It's not like you don't have updates for consoles. The ps3 has frequent updates that can take quite some time to download and install, and these are the first of many more ultra-advanced consoles to come. The fact is that consoles are becoming more like PC's, and PC's are adapting towards more user friendly interfaces (i.e. Games for Windows). In my opinion, the future for PC's and consoles will be more of a merge than a clear victory for one.
Besides, we're always going to need PC's. People have work to do, people to IM, and pr0n to watch. The only way for a console to compete with the PC is if it were to offer similar capabilities, but then it would just become yet another PC. I think the reason PC's and consoles used to be separate was because PC's didn't have enough graphical capability to play games, and it was difficult to plug your PC into a normal TV. But now that graphics cards are starting to come out with HDMI and TV Out ports, there really isn't anything left for consoles other than their simple user-interfaces. But if we look at the jump from XP to Vista and the increasing popularity of Mac OS's, we can already see a shift towards more simple to use, yet powerful, operating systems.
I guess my main point here is that we better pray that the porn industry doesn't make a console.