All have their place
From personal experience over the years, I've found that strategy games have always been the PCs strong point. Consoles have never really gained a strong hold on strategy games, this is not because of the lack of resources, It has been simply down to lack of a mouse! (Halo wars was a good example of this, if the theme had been something else other than Halo it would probably not have been popular)
Yes Xbox hardware is a good bit behind a carefully constructed PC gamer's system but the Xbox only has to run a simple O/S designed for only a handful of tasks versus a PC windows O/S that has to be flexible enough to do almost anything with the right software a bolt-ons.
The major pitfall of the games console is the inability to CHOOSE what you prefer. With the PC you can use WASD and mouse aiming, a control pad or joystick. The PC also provides modding which consoles can't do. Just look at the GTA san andreas PC community, very few just put the disc in a PLAY they are in the system files tweaking or designing new graphics, it's the same with the fallout franchise.
While I'm on this topic Xbox is a microsoft product, it SHOULD have the "flexibility" allowed by the PC........ yet....... I can't upgrade my 360???? Can't put larger than a 320GB HDD in???????? What do you mean it HAS to be a Western Digital drive?????? If I WANT to put a Hitachi 2TB in my Xbox I should be ABLE to!!!!
At least you can plug a keyboard in, that's something at least.
From what I can gather in the markets is that all hardware powered by windows is gradually heading toward standardisation, Windows 8, Xbox O/S, windows mobile have started to look similar. Does this mean that products will be cross compatible? I think so, it has already started with Xbox "achievements" already be awarded to PC gamers and windows mobile users for certain titles.
If Xbox would like to be top dog (no contest next time) or PS3 (I'm not saying the console is better but I do prefer the 360 personally) users need to be able to personalise things better. The modders spirit (as it were) needs to move to console. Yes it's easier to just put the disc in and "it works" with a console but I think some nice simple upgrades would be nice. Upgrade the disc size with out HDD cracking would be nice >:-(, maybe it would be nice to add a blu ray disc! (had xbox used a laptop drive and then released a driver through xbox live update it would have been far simpler) Perhaps standard laptop CPUs could have been used to give it upgrade potential.
Why consoles are mod-free areas is a head-scratcher for me. Regardless of this I still cannot do without a console AND a PC (I'm resisting having an iMac because of it's inflexibility but we do hardware repairs on them so it would be nice to have a play) Forza 4 is holding my attention on the Xbox and Simcity 4 is STILL what I use the PC for mostly. I have been a part of the Simcity devotion forum for a couple of years now. I'm awaiting Simcity 5 next year, the glassbox engine looks very impressive but doubt a console could cut the grade for a game like that.
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