The "advantage" if you want to call it that, I have found with games mostly being made to run on consoles is that it means my PC hardware gets good usage.
I built my PC when the 360 had been out for about a year and a half (Decemberish 2007), just as it's hardware was beginning to be used to its potential. I built it to play the games that were out at the time, and it consisted of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.00GHz, an nVidia 8800GT 512MB and 2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz. Including case (already had a monitor and hard drives, speakers etc.) it cost about $1000 AUD. Since the complexity of games in general (I say this excluding cases such as Empire Total War, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Crysis) has no increased due to the static nature of console hardware, my PC, though worth far less now, still plays just about anything I can throw at it. For that I thank the Xbox 360, it means I didn't waste as much on my PC. It is worth noting though, that this situation playing out so well was extremely dependent on timing of my purchases.
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...Ubisoft when they released a "fix" for the Direct2Drive version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/07/did_ubisoft_fix_direct2drive_rainbow_six_vegas_2_using_a_crack/ Turns out it was a RELOADED crack. Their reason? The latest patch didn't work with the Direct2Drive version of the game.
The "advantage" if you want to call it that, I have found with games mostly being made to run on consoles is that it means my PC hardware gets good usage. I built my PC when the 360 had been out for about a year and a half (Decemberish 2007), just as it's hardware was beginning to be used to its potential. I built it to play the games that were out at the time, and it consisted of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.00GHz, an nVidia 8800GT 512MB and 2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz. Including case (already had a monitor and hard drives, speakers etc.) it cost about $1000 AUD. Since the complexity of games in general (I say this excluding cases such as Empire Total War, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Crysis) has no increased due to the static nature of console hardware, my PC, though worth far less now, still plays just about anything I can throw at it. For that I thank the Xbox 360, it means I didn't waste as much on my PC. It is worth noting though, that this situation playing out so well was extremely dependent on timing of my purchases.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/40241/Ubisoft-Allegedly-Releases-Crack-As-Official-Fix