There's certainly something to be said for value of money for the xbox over PC, despite it's ageing technology. I look at my sons gaming experience over mine and what he plays and who he plays with.. at a snip of the price I pay for my PC.. We both have Mw2 yet can't play each other.. Eghhh
True, that's why you don't buy a £1500 pound computer to 'max out' Crysis, or BC2. To be honest, if one's even considering investing that much money into a pure 'gaming rig' then money's probably not much of an issue here. What makes PCs special is multitasking and their ability to perform an extraordinary number of tasks. That's where the value for money comes in. I'm sure you yourself can give numerous examples of this.
The quality of some PC games certainly outshine their siblings but then is that really important? Once you're in game, do really notice the finer details that's cost £600 more to play than the xbox equivalent? Let's be realistic about this.. it's the same game.
That's for people to decide themselves, some people are just keen on the idea of seeing every pixel's worth of quality on their 1920x1200 monitor. Not me I have a very modest rig, with a modest resolution monitor, but as mentioned above, some people just have the money to throw at it..
More importantly. it's also worth taking into account technologies such as eyefinity which certainly set the PC apart as it's totally unviable (to my knowledge) on 'modern' console hardware. Also if i'm not mistaken, the xbox can't pull near enough to 120fps on modern games to make 3D vision viable.
Furthermore, xbox games are pretty consistent in terms of reliability and content. For example, how many PC games have you got working first time recently
Most of the games I own..
Although i understand that people do have problems sometimes, more often than not either a developer's been extraordinarily lazy/stupid, there's conflicting software on the system or it's a problem between the keyboard and chair.
how PC games have or do not have achievements..
Going to just ignore this
I say the PC gaming industry really needs to catchup very quickly, tackle piracy (which looking at the MW2 statistics is pretty appauling) and provide a more consistent dashboard to play other players..and accross other platforms otherwise when the next generations are realised, we could be seeing bye-bye to PC games as we know it.
Yea this is true
. Although I imagine the main reason for separation is control interface. Keyboard+Mouse vs 360 controller on an FPS? Yea we all know how that's going to turn out
it just wouldnt be fair.
Unless they want to risk homogenisation of control interface to keyboard and mouse, then it's best to keep the multiplayers seperate.. Controllers are what make consoles special after all!
