Which gaming platform is the best?

Syncroneyes · June 10th, 2008, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

PC gaming isn't centralized around any one company like on consoles, where teams of public relations folk shape and fine-tune company messages for Nintendo's Wii or Microsoft's Xbox 360. The PC platform is an open one, available for anyone to utilize as they see fit. It's a quality that makes it the most dynamic

Yes, thats why we all love it so much, but if Microsoft have their wicked way and "Windows-ize" everything e.g with Games for Windows (and the inevitable costs that they will bring to bear a-la Xbox live) they will in effect be closing this "open platform"...

... that's why Games for Windows cannot be allowed to succeed. Otherwise there's a good chance the freedom we PC Gamers enjoy so much will disappear.

What's next after "Games for Windows Live!"? - "Games for Windows certified GPU's and CPU's ??" You know what i'm saying, thats the reality, and the future if we don't do something about it.

DeadSpace · September 9th, 2008, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Unixlord

A console can't ever be better than a PC unless it becomes a PC itself. To those who voted for consoles, you have my sincere condolences, live long and prosper

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^ unix said it all.

IModIntel · September 9th, 2008, 07:41 PM

Then again, PCs aren't the so much open platform as most of you people think. With all the d**k-sucking that's being done my component manufacturers, like Nvidia who has games optimized for their parts, that destroys the whole open-platform concept in my opinion.