"Only point of buying a console then would be to play the 2-3 exclusives it does get worth playing in a year."

ding. It's games like Read Dead I bought it for. The only reason I bought a ps3 was for ff13 and Twisted Metal...

Lack of Twisted Metal this gen has my ps3 in about 5 layers of dust.

DX11 features are confirmed, they will announce them after 'summer'....which I assume means in the U.S, there was a post on incrysis.com about it

Seriously console and pc gaming has co-existed for decades now. pc games have always progressed at their own pace irrespective of the consoles and now and all of a sudden consoles are holding pc games back? Why is it that pc games have stagnated technically for a few years now?

It couldn't possibly be due to ever increasing game development costs. I'm sure piracy does not have a role to play at all. Or even more ridiculous, it can't have anything to do with the fact that the vast majority of computer's install base is composed of low-end to mid range systems.

It pays to use some logic before shouting out random crap.

you miss out on some great games. I ment to say best settings possible *on consoles* no doubt the PC versions look better (take ME2) they look phenominal. But i just prefer to game in my living room as oposed to being infront of my comp (even though this chair is mighty comfy haha) with my souround set and all.
IDK when i changed i just did, i once gamed only on PC, Civ3, warcraft, starcraft, KOTOR plus heaps more where my obcessions, but i just changed i guess.

And my gaming preferences have changed completly, not that i dont game on PC, i will be getting Crysis 2 on both PC and PS3, just so i can experience the best of both worlds.

But in the end it is preference, yes PC has better graphics, but all my friends game on consoles and it is all on a person to person base i guess. Whatever floats your boat!

that is not what i was meaning thanks for misinterpreting such a simle conept in my post

you guys bring up resolutions as if it showcased the processing power you basically are saying a game running at higher reolution than 1280x720 in the 90s to a game running at 1280x720 today and trying to say hey look my pc was doing that in the 90s over looking the fact that the game looked like crap and that you werent playing a game matching modern warfare in the 90s let alone killzone 2

not to mention that you say that i will have to upgrade my console when the next one comes out guess what i dont have to get it immediately while you might have a graphics card that could possibly work with every game when the next game comes out youre not exactly going to be playing it on max settings just continually lowering settings still it works at a good fps

team already stated the ps3 version is way ahead of the 360 version and remeber cage metioned if you saw on n4g 360 could not do heavy rain until they have games that surpassed god of war 3 uncharted 1 and 2 killzone2 hheavy rain then they can speak up ends of statement

I'm not saying "PC > console !!!!"

I was also a console and PC gamer,

I have owned ( i'll include handhelds )
Gameboy
SNES
Gameboy Colour
N64
Gamecube
PS2
XBOX
NDS
NDSi
Wii

and all the while i've been a PC gamer, and the ONLY generation of console's that doesn't appeal to me is this gen.

Even on day 1 of the 360...before the wii or PS3 were out, I was absolutely underwhelmed. It looked barely different than the previous gen and in my opinion, not any better than Doom 3 had looked several years before...speaking of doom 3...that was the first time I really saw how underpowered console's were compared to PC, I had to crappest computer known to man with a second hand $40 video card I got on the cheap... and I was running doom 3 maxed settings with aa @ 1280x1024, then it came to xbox, it was running at 640x480 and looked like doom3 on low and had an even lower FOV...

Until then I held console's in high regard like many PS3 owners do, I thought console's were more powerful, because the type of games I was playing on PC simply weren't that great looking, that was due to no fault of the platform, but because I was into RTS and diablo 2 etc...

After that I sold my XBOX, and I only used my ps2 as a cd player ( and still do )

Then the PS3 and 360 launched at ridiculous prices, and sadly the only console maker that appealed to me was nintendo...and even they let me down. My brother amongst others kept telling me about crysis and I disregarded it thinking it sounded stupid...but I started getting into PC again..long story short, I bought a new PC for around the same price I would have bought a console for using my old case etc...and now there is no way I can justify buying a console when not only are the console's overpriced, but every game costs $10-20U.S more

If I were to buy a console it would be a massive downgrade, and every game I buy on it would be like throwing money away, not only because they cost more but because there is no guarantee of backwards compatibility. Every PC I buy I keep for not just this gen, but every after it, and each year the games get better, unlike console games that sit in a pile with all the old console's I will never again use.
You say that your PS3 won't break when the next gen comes out, of course it won't, but wouldn't you like to be able to put your PS3 games in a PS4 and double the frame rates and res and draw distances?, that's how it is with every PC game.

Console's are a closed off platform in so many ways and it is a dead end money wise. You might think there a lot of console exclusives worth buying but you might also think uncharted 2 and killzone 2 are graphically impressive...I do not, there is probably less than 5 console games I would buy, so it's not for me anymore. PC is cheaper and better in longevity and customisability, I can postpone upgrading for as long or as little as I like.

I'm not dissing you in any way, I'm just saying that's my rationale, cheaper games, just as cheap hardware( which is better ), multiplats are better, PC still gets it's share of exclusives, and over all I save money and get more out of it. The "PC's cost $2000" thing is a myth, take any PC, add a $100 GPU and your good for another generation

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Really because I used to play crysis @1080p on high at 30 frames on my old 8800gt....they can be had for about $50 now...