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Originally Posted by Kostamojen
I concure. I have no interest in consoles, exept perhaps for GT4.
The one thing you really dont get with consoles are all the modified games. Not to mention, a severe lackage in controls (religated to a gamepad) like atomic mentioned.
Plus, unless you have alot of people in/who come to your house and play games, multiplayer console options are rather useless... (yes, there are the online packs, etc., but so far the games are still very limited)
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You guys are touching on the biggest things that have changed about consoles in the last year. Because MS has pushed for XBox Live support, there are now actually very few games that aren't, at least in some way, online enabled. You basically can't sell a racing game w/o online support these days. Consoles are becoming less of a "video game machine" and more of an "online gaming appliance".
The whole "modified game" thing has *always* irked me. I hate having to basically be a Unix Administrator in order to play my favorite racing game. Christ, it takes like 40 patches and 500MB of downloads just to get a basic install of GTR for F1-2002 up and running, and don't even get me started on getting my wheel, pedals, and shifter to work.
Which brings up the deal w/ console controllers. The Logitech wheel for my PS2, while not as high-quality, is actually more reliable and consistant than my logitech wheel for my PC. And I think it's only licensing limitations for PS2 that keeps Logitech from releasing their dope PC wheel on XBox. Hell, the next generation wheel that's already out now for GT4 has 900deg of rotation and force-feedback! And of course, if you don't mind going the mod-chip route, there are keyboards and mice for the consoles.
I'll agree that the consoles aren't as good for the 1st person shooter and stragegy games, simply due to input limitations, but that's just a personal preference because I'm used to playing those games w/ a mouse. Millions of people played Halo w/ a gamepad and didn't seem to have any major issues.
So, while a console can't yet do everything a PC can do, the stuff it does do it does so well, I don't really miss PC gaming. I'll never long for the days of network troubleshooting, screwing up a game patch and having to reinstall, harware conflicts, crappy performance, and $1000 upgrades just to play the "latest" game that plays just like theold one but with slightly better graphics. Consoles will end up replacing PCs for gaming, now that they're on the internet.