Consoles Explained

[dr. sarf]

I know nothing about consoles really. I'm mainly talking about the 360 and PS3 but what I'm interested to know is how they compare to typical gaming Desktop Computers regards outright power and performance?

I've googled the consoles specifications but it doesn't seem as straight forward as a PC regards understanding it. PS3 has a 7SPE CPU at 3.2Ghz?

For instance, the 360 has been out a while but all the new titles that come out play on it without a second thought - thats what consoles do, but when the same titles come out on PC, we all scurry off to check our system is up to the job, even if it's only a month old - Crysis springs to mind! Is that planned to come out for the 360??

 

[dr. sarf]

I thought it might be. But makes you wonder if say, you spend £800 on a gaming system that will run Crysis on High, then it comes out on the Xbox which you can buy for a couple hundred quid and plug in a mouse and keyboard, why don't we just all game on a console?

I say this cos I saw Bioshock on my mates 360 and I didnt really notice any difference between that and the PC version. Maybe they need to be run side by side at the same time to differentiate.
He also had it connected to a massive 42" HD display, which you can't easily do on a PC without some sort of perfomance loss due to the higher resolution.