43n1m4: Though piracy is indeed a negative factor in PC game sales, even if the piracy effect were totally nullified, PC games still wouldn't sell more than their console counterparts. Simply put: Gaming PCs often cost an arm and a leg (assuming \$1000 would qualify), and as a result aren't nearly as widespread as the relatively cheap console (\$200-\$400). Case in point: there aren't really a whole lot of people capable of playing Fallout 3 in its entirety on the PC, as the average PC is often a budget PC with integrated graphics (over 75% of all consumer PCs have them), and those that can have already shelled out the hundreds of dollars for a powerful discrete graphics board and the required upgrades that come with them (power supply, heatsink, maybe even a new motherboard, etc.). Ultimately, in order to sell effectively well in the PC market, you need to have the ability to play well on mainstream computers. Fallout 3 doesn't have this ability. Therefore, the less expensive console route has been the more profitable one.
I don't think this article is totally useless; I can easily see this assisting a person who's just recently bought a gaming PC with some guidelines on how to get started. But yeah, there's nothing for long-time power users, which makes sense, as long-time power users have already implemented these basic steps and done other things to keep their PC up to speed, and this article specifically states it's for people who've just bought one.
It doesn't look like a bad system, but a lot of people already have camera phones that can play movies, record video clips, have GPS, do the dishes, provide you with a personal jetpack, etc... I commend Ninty for trying, but still, people already have stuff that has the DSi's additional features, only more improved and for around the same price. It would be awesome if we could store a mass of GBA games onto one 32GB SDHC card to compensate for the lack of a GBA slot. Wonder if Vicarious Visions will build a GBA-to-SD adapter for the DSi.
Interesting that I can get almost 60FPS on my now-outdated 8800GT on high settings with my monitor's native resolution. Sounds like they optimized it very well.
I'm comfortable with my 8800GT. If I ever wanted to max out Crysis, I'd get this card. But I don't care about Crysis, so I'll just leave it be at the moment.
ReaperXxxx is quite true. Sure, you have a ton of map editing tools on the PC, but a console game rarely has editing tools. Halo 3 is a good start for editing on a console.
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