Kalah wrote:You have never lived with a woman, have you...?
Ahkay, quick explanation of what I mean: I'm talking about
aesthetics. A console is small and can be slid in and stored along with the rest of the stereo, and it's quite often designed to look nice. A PC is a large, square box. You can't "pack it away", it
doesn't look nice, and to the girl in the house, it would be a real eye-sore. She would say a PC doesn't belong in the living room, and to get it the hell back into the office underneath the desk before the dinner guests arrive.
Huh? I mean, I get what you mean, but you are aware there are many types of "configurations" you can do, if you want something stylish and/or small instead? There are even 'home theater' pre-packaged systems (although I personally prefer to package them myself). (for example, cases designed for microATX motherboards, not full ATX, etc...)
Or get a laptop and hook that up. Can't get slimmer than that
And PCs aren't just "more practical", they are the embodiment of information processing and software -- that is, software is DESIGNED to be open, not "hard-coded" or "hard-wired". After all, the PC has the same 'types' of components (processor, graphics card, motherboard, even if different Intel vs IBM instruction sets) as a console. The difference is that PCs use their capacities to full (a processor can do ANY information processing, not just games/movies, including programming), instead of being limited as in the console.
My point stands: most people who play games need PCs. People who have PCs don't need consoles, unless the damn games were made for PCs (think: emulators work fine, so it IS possible, even if slow as hell). If only those devs had less of this obsolete idea of "hard-wired specialized and 'locked' closed system" like a console is.
Another example of a locked closed system is anything that has PC components but doesn't act as a PC (i.e is very limited). The processor inside CAN DO as much as a PC but is obviously limited in it's power because of the design -- which is why I consider it obsolete (the design I mean).
Ok enough rant from me regarding this subject, maybe I should make a thread "Why consoles suck" if I had the time
(of course, I'll detail it's only my opinion)
All humans do is to go to a place, bountiful of nature, and live there. Then the human multiplies and sucks all the wonders there. They move to the next. There is one thing that works the same way as that: a virus.