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The future of consoles is a doomed one. The PC will rule.............
This is because of the constant upgradability of the PC. Each month a new chip or processor is released, and our PC’s can adapt to them. Nothing like this happens for consoles. We only get a new console every 5 or so years.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE CONSOLE:
The console is convinient, linking up to the TV. It also plays multiplayer games, the PC dosen’t (i’m talking about 4 people in one house, not internet). So, it’s also convnient, cause you can watch TV on it. But what else? Not much.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE PC:
It has constant upgradability, better graphics and is faster, can run other software etc. Okay, it’s not much. But PC’s can now have TV on them. Multiplayer games(in one house) are a possibility, with more controller ports. So it completely outweighs the console. The only thing is the PC does not yet have the quality and quantity of good console games. But this could change. You may not agree. But this is my opinion.
This is because of the constant upgradability of the PC. Each month a new chip or processor is released, and our PC’s can adapt to them. Nothing like this happens for consoles. We only get a new console every 5 or so years.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE CONSOLE:
The console is convinient, linking up to the TV. It also plays multiplayer games, the PC dosen’t (i’m talking about 4 people in one house, not internet). So, it’s also convnient, cause you can watch TV on it. But what else? Not much.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE PC:
It has constant upgradability, better graphics and is faster, can run other software etc. Okay, it’s not much. But PC’s can now have TV on them. Multiplayer games(in one house) are a possibility, with more controller ports. So it completely outweighs the console. The only thing is the PC does not yet have the quality and quantity of good console games. But this could change. You may not agree. But this is my opinion.
The future of consoles is a doomed one. The PC will rule.............
This is because of the constant upgradability of the PC. Each month a new chip or processor is released, and our PC’s can adapt to them. Nothing like this happens for consoles. We only get a new console every 5 or so years.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE CONSOLE:
The console is convinient, linking up to the TV. It also plays multiplayer games, the PC dosen’t (i’m talking about 4 people in one house, not internet). So, it’s also convnient, cause you can watch TV on it. But what else? Not much.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE PC:
It has constant upgradability, better graphics and is faster, can run other software etc. Okay, it’s not much. But PC’s can now have TV on them. Multiplayer games(in one house) are a possibility, with more controller ports. So it completely outweighs the console. The only thing is the PC does not yet have the quality and quantity of good console games. But this could change. You may not agree. But this is my opinion.
This is because of the constant upgradability of the PC. Each month a new chip or processor is released, and our PC’s can adapt to them. Nothing like this happens for consoles. We only get a new console every 5 or so years.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE CONSOLE:
The console is convinient, linking up to the TV. It also plays multiplayer games, the PC dosen’t (i’m talking about 4 people in one house, not internet). So, it’s also convnient, cause you can watch TV on it. But what else? Not much.
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE PC:
It has constant upgradability, better graphics and is faster, can run other software etc. Okay, it’s not much. But PC’s can now have TV on them. Multiplayer games(in one house) are a possibility, with more controller ports. So it completely outweighs the console. The only thing is the PC does not yet have the quality and quantity of good console games. But this could change. You may not agree. But this is my opinion.
This could go on for a long, long time........
Consoles: previously dedicated to games, are becoming more diversified in lieu of current competition in the market place, but they still specialise in the one thing they were designed for: games.
Manufactured by Sony, Sega and Nintendo, the latter two specialising in nothing else, these 3 huge global companies are unlikely to die out for a long time. With the advent of backwards compatibility, Sony's games will now have lasting audiences across two platforms, seeing the likes of Driver being played just after The Bouncer or Metal Gear Solid 2 in the same afternoon. This is a new era for consoles.
PC's: Never specialised, but mainly used for administrative tasks like number crunching, word processing, multi-tasking and so on. Very complicated operating systems and the need to link various components result in crashes, especially whilst playing games or surfing the internet. Games developed this year for PC will look dated in a year when games for the P4 architecture chips start to come on the market. Console games usually look dated after 24 months, not 12. PC's will always be more for admin tasks than specialising in games, although there are now on the market some PC's geared towards gaming, they still have those annoying applications that get in the way of a good continuous gaming session, like taskbars, applications, toolbars, system trays etc., none of which are necessary to get into a game. They can also take a long time to boot up, need a lot of maintenance, and generally are just too unwieldy to play games on properly.
Your turn.....
Consoles: previously dedicated to games, are becoming more diversified in lieu of current competition in the market place, but they still specialise in the one thing they were designed for: games.
Manufactured by Sony, Sega and Nintendo, the latter two specialising in nothing else, these 3 huge global companies are unlikely to die out for a long time. With the advent of backwards compatibility, Sony's games will now have lasting audiences across two platforms, seeing the likes of Driver being played just after The Bouncer or Metal Gear Solid 2 in the same afternoon. This is a new era for consoles.
PC's: Never specialised, but mainly used for administrative tasks like number crunching, word processing, multi-tasking and so on. Very complicated operating systems and the need to link various components result in crashes, especially whilst playing games or surfing the internet. Games developed this year for PC will look dated in a year when games for the P4 architecture chips start to come on the market. Console games usually look dated after 24 months, not 12. PC's will always be more for admin tasks than specialising in games, although there are now on the market some PC's geared towards gaming, they still have those annoying applications that get in the way of a good continuous gaming session, like taskbars, applications, toolbars, system trays etc., none of which are necessary to get into a game. They can also take a long time to boot up, need a lot of maintenance, and generally are just too unwieldy to play games on properly.
Your turn.....
I expect the Xbox is Microsoft's answer. The PC is at risk from the super consoles, which can easily muster enough power to do the tasks of most home PC's.
Very likely too that Sony felt it necessary to dominate the console market in the full knowledge that one day the consoles would be at the core of home entertainment systems.
So which way will it go. Will you be using your consoles to play films and music or will we be using them to do your homework on.
Both are a distinct possibility, but the PC has a strong advantage in the screen resolution since it is not restricted to TV's. How long before you can plug a high-res monitor into a console?
Sega missed out here I feel. They could easily have made the Dreamcast capable of displaying a full resolution internet browser via a monitor but they did not want to cause consumer confusion, so they stuck with TV res only. So you cannot browse the internet properly, so why bother to include a modem?
I don't see where Sega fits in the picture once Microsoft gets on the scene so I expect they will be snapped up by one of the big three. Sega own lots of patents, some of which they bought from Atari, and they have a lot of copyright over big name games.
Watch out for hard-drive based consumer product too. There is a digital video recorder out already which I assume uses a hard drive. This is the turning point. You might as well use your PC to record videos and then play them back through your TV.
It's all gonna get very mixed up.
Very likely too that Sony felt it necessary to dominate the console market in the full knowledge that one day the consoles would be at the core of home entertainment systems.
So which way will it go. Will you be using your consoles to play films and music or will we be using them to do your homework on.
Both are a distinct possibility, but the PC has a strong advantage in the screen resolution since it is not restricted to TV's. How long before you can plug a high-res monitor into a console?
Sega missed out here I feel. They could easily have made the Dreamcast capable of displaying a full resolution internet browser via a monitor but they did not want to cause consumer confusion, so they stuck with TV res only. So you cannot browse the internet properly, so why bother to include a modem?
I don't see where Sega fits in the picture once Microsoft gets on the scene so I expect they will be snapped up by one of the big three. Sega own lots of patents, some of which they bought from Atari, and they have a lot of copyright over big name games.
Watch out for hard-drive based consumer product too. There is a digital video recorder out already which I assume uses a hard drive. This is the turning point. You might as well use your PC to record videos and then play them back through your TV.
It's all gonna get very mixed up.