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Posted by: Fake
The difference between PC and console imo. Todays PC's are far more powerful than both the xbox 360 and ps3. An xbox 360/ps3 is only equivilent to a decent system with a nvidia 7900GT. Anyone who has got a better system has got more power than what both the xbox 360 and ps3 can provide.
A lot of people say that PC games are -blam!- because they freeze and stutter where as consoles do not. I can tell you that i have played a few console games that have frozen and/or stuttered. Yes these downers might make the PC gaming experience a little less enjoyable, but on average you get a lot higher frame-rates and smoother game-play. I would love to see any console achieve better frame-rates and smoother game-play while running 50 programs in the background.
Games on PC are generally graphically superior, having the ability to change graphics details at will is awesome and an advantage. With consoles they are simply not powerful enough to cope with some of todays games thus they have reduced graphic details. Not to mention you can have far higher resolution, AA and AF on PC making the games visual looks a lot better than any console.
Like i stated in my second paragraph about stuttering etc. When game developers make games for a console, they only have to work on 1 console as every console is the same. One xbox is the same to another xbox, one ps3 is the same as another ps3. So they can better optimize the game to suit that particular console. EVERY computer is different, no matter how much the specs look alike. This is a problem for game developers because they have to work on multiple computer with different specs, but can never optimize the game to suit all computers (with the exception of UT2K4). Thats why they are always constantly bringing out updates and patches for games, graphics cards, sound cards etc.
A lot of people also say, "well why spend so much money on a computer when you can get a console cheaper". Thats quite simple to answer. Because computers are not just for gaming, people like to use multimedia software that requires powerful systems, encoding movies, benchmarking and many more. Consoles are cheaper, but can you browse the web, use Microsoft office programs, use paint programs like photoshop, 3d programs like maya/3dsmax, cinema4d etc, and much, much more, and do a lot of that stuff at the same time.
PC's will ALWAYS be superior to consoles, its practically impossible for a console to be better than a PC as once console manage to do all the stuff a PC can do, its no longer a console, but a PC. Consoles are for gaming, nothing else.Agreed, and PCs aren't even that expensive if you shop smart.
Posted by: TheLastCrusader7
pcs are dumb console gaming all the wayEpic fail.
Seriously, what the hell is this? You ask us what's the difference and you don't even care, you just say console gaming is better.
Actually, I'm not sure if I can say that we haven't been doing the same with PCs.
PCs > consoles btw.
Posted by: Shdwsnipa
Console GPUs aren't even that great. PS3's GPU is just a modded G70 chip, and the 360's GPU is based off the R520. The Wii's is some other random chip from ATI. Basically, GeForce 8 (possibly the higher end of GeForce 7) owns them all.Actually, the Xbox 360 uses a prototype R600.
[Edited on 05.13.2007 5:43 PM PDT]