Now this is ironic.malestrithe said:
Yet by standard principles, especially now I would not call the Xbox 360 or PS3 'cutting edge.' Its like calling the radio, today, a cutting edge piece of technology that will totally change how we listen to music. How do these two relate is the most likely question? You see, similar to the radio, consoles are quite old when it comes to the technological curve. A radio, while a major milestone for broadcasting or music-listening is not the most cutting edge thing in both fields. There have been other examples of better 'radios' so-to-speak which involves things like Twitch TV, Podcasting software along with more, less notable ones.
A console, on the basis that it can not be upgraded until a generation ends ensures that, on day of release it is already falling behind on the technological-curve. You can't pull out the video card from the console and install a new one like you can a PC. You can't just take a part from a console and then insert it into its slot and expect it to still function properly. However, on a PC I can customize, switch and swap-it to my heart's content and it will run fine as long as I didn't forget to install it or didn't plug-it-in properly.
I also love this here as well.
I never said that we needed the guarantee to play everything. Your throwing a hissy-fit over nothing here. But I'll elaborate on this point like I did your last one.
The accusation that I am greedy for simply being able to play games that are so old now that they can't run on modern anything is like saying people who play music through MP3 files are greedy bastards for not using exclusively Records for their music pleasure.
Money is a main problem when it comes to retro gaming, the older the more daring and dodgy the things your buying become and the harder it is to get the system you just spent thousands on for the games and the hardware to work. I don't know about you, but I don't have thousands to spend on something that may or may not work.
On the aspect though, how else are you going to play the Dos now in days aside from the Dos itself or Dos-Box? No modern PC can run Dos anymore, the program is to old to work.
While here, covering the same topic again, consoles are behind the times because you can't just swap out the standard Xbox Video Card for the newest Nvidia Video-Card and expect it to work. On PC you could, but not on the Xbox.
At the risk of sounding Elitist like its a bad thing, yes PC is better. PC has been better for the past few years. We lack having to enter several codes to play our games. We lack discs for which can break. We lack having to leave the house to buy our games. I can buy that shit through my damn phone, tell it to download and play it once I get home from work. We lack stores that cause publishers to gain less money for their game. We lack a used-games section, which is actually bad unlike the rest. We lack the space needed to house game boxes. We do not lack a thriving independent scene. We do not lack the customization of our platform and we are not behind the times by 5 or so years. We don't lack strict-publishers, shutting down game makers if they don't reach a certain mystic score or make a certain amount of money.
PC has been better for the past few years because of the rising of Steam and the fact that publishers are fully cut out of the picture on the PC. No game idea can be told no to being sold because it may affect their bottom line. Games like Legend of Grimrock would never damn see a shelf-life because of things like publishers. What has the indie scene for consoles been like? What very-small-indie-games got a shelf life on consoles as of late? What new software has Xbox upgraded to over the 360s life span?
To end it, PC is better on the basis that it lacks many of consoles problems. I could care less that I sound elitist but what giant-benefits are coming to console in the next generation? The ability for ads to just pop-in and say "YO, BUY DIS DRINK DOG F8 DAT GAMER DAT IS YO!" while your in the middle of something. For ads to be interactive. To have to pay more for playing online, despite you already having a connection to the internet?
OH WOOPS, FORGOT THE "MY OPINION" PART OF THIS! I tried to ground most of this in fact, but that doesn't mean that I'm not colored into liking PC's more, this is just a disclaimer so that your aware that this is not 100% unbiased truth, because it is biased.
I answered the OP's question earlier, I'll do it agian here. Unlike most PC players who never gain or essentially lose space unless they get a gaming laptop, console gamers will more then likely have to keep their consoles to play their old games with their current saves or just able to play their games at-all if there is no backwards capability, and if there is capability backwards they'll sell their console and keep the newer one.
, there are a lot of awesome older games.
