On 5 June 2012 21:47, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012, at 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: >> I'm not much >> of a gamer, so I don't know if game consoles will obsolete the home PC >> gamer market > > What happens there is new console hardware is released which is at or > around the capability (graphically) of current mid to high end gaming > PCs. People spend a couple of years announcing the death of the PC as a > gaming platform, until about 6 or 7 years later when the consoles really > show their age, and the PC is blowing them away again. The cycle then > repeats.
The advantage of consoles is that every one is the same, and has the same gfx/cpu capabilities. Talking of Valve (the Steam owners) they recently hired a bunch of brilliant hardware engineers (such as Jeri Ellsworth). They're up to something, possibly a new console. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0+LRXk3R+Sjf6kO-+D5+c8bQcxhFVht+k7t7=of295p...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
