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"PC Vs Consoles"

I greet You all with this message;

What do you think will suffer in the future of gaming?
Will the PC totally over-rule the console industry, or will every one in the future own a super-powered P4 console-type 'Xbox' thing, that handles every thing from 'Word' to 'Quake 3' online???

Meka, stop slacking with these intellectual topics and go read the story. We're low on writers, it's getting dark outside, and I'm not sure if we'll... ARGHHHH!!

Forgiven.

Sorry.

I had a momentary lapse of reason there.

But all is well.

Plus, my fingers got too fat to type so I mashed the keys with my face.

It shall never happen again.

I think you should insert the word 'make' somewhere.

Meka_Dragon wrote:
> Goatboy wrote:
> So what does that my LCD Flagman watch?

Has
> Cheatguru logged on as you?

I can make no sense of that initial
> sentence.

I can't make any sense of it either.

Goatboy wrote:
> So what does that my LCD Flagman watch?

Has Cheatguru logged on as you?

I can make no sense of that initial sentence.

So what does that my LCD Flagman watch?

Eh? Eh?

You see how your theory falls down!

lol@Meka

Good show man...

:)

Meka_Dragon wrote:
> Consoles are for playing games.

PC's can be used for playing
> games, but they're for multi-tasking. Number-crunching, word
> processing, databases. Stuff like that.

If I want to play games,
> more often than not I'll use a console. It's what it's built for.
> Certain games, however, suit the PC more.

Why is this, you may
> ask, and I'll tell you.

Keyboard and mouse.

Sometimes there
> just aren't enough buttons on a joystick, and the mouse is handy for
> moving cursors.

So give consoles a keyboard and a mouse, and you
> don't need a PC to play games anymore.

These things don't make
> your console a PC, far from it, they're just accessories for
> gaming.

What else that the PC has could improve gaming?

Online
> capabilities. So yuo can play Mortal Kombat with a friend in
> Vietnam, as Jim Carrey put it in The Cable Guy.

So stick a modem
> on a console, so you can play people the world around. Still doesn't
> make it a PC though, it's a console with online
> capabilities.

What else might the console owner want? Rather than
> shelling out on dozens on memory cardsand the like, how about a hard
> drive to which you can save data?

Good idea, we'll have one of
> those too.

So now our console has all of these extras, and guess
> what? It's still a console! It's purpose is still only to play
> games. It hasn't become a PC, merely taken some of the features that
> make PC gaming special, and given them to the machines that you
> should be playing games on.

Well Said. This basically sums it all up nicely.

Well said, that Dragon!