Really takes the hassle out for people who don't know that a 3.0 Ghz Pentium D is weaker then a 3.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo and all that stuff. (I think this is similar to what you said 9MM).Ĭross-platform play would be awesome if we could get split-screen on PC games - PCs can easily hook up to most TVs now so screen size isn't an issue.Īctually, Microsoft has been trying to implement some sort of PC score into their operating system that scores your computer based on what it has in it (based on the weakest component) and you can use that score to check if a game will run well on your PC or not. 'This PC will run all Graphics Level-3 games at their recommended settings' - and devs adhered to this rather than going out and making something with insane graphics that most people's PCs can't showcase, and there was a lot more support for PC, it would be more popular than the consoles.

Maybe if there were some sort of PC gaming standard - i.e. Yet we are all being shoehorned into a security protected console environment. What would happen if you made a game exclusively for a certain make of graphics card? A lot of high profile PC games have also been made for mac, even. If my PC is good enough to run all these games, why can't it? They are completely ripping us all off with consoles which have now become proprietry PCs with exclusive games. The trouble is, and the main problem I have, is that I am perfectly fine playing games on my PC. The only thing giving the consoles an advantage is exclusive games forcing you to buy their system (when a PC could easily run the same game just as well/better). If it had controllers and split-screen play, it should be over for the consoles. Now that consoles have these problems too, the PC is looking more inviting. You didn't have lots of different hardware configurations, some of which can actually run games better than others (thinking about NXE here and hard drives). You didn't have to be concerned that your console might freeze up or that it might not be able to play games as smoothly as they should. You didn't worry about settings and options and installs and patches and expansions and updates. You could take that same disk, with your memory card, round to your friend's house and play on his console.

In the past, consoles had the advantage that you could just pop a disk in and play - no fuss, no hassle.

If PCs had split-screen in most games and had standardised wireless controllers, consoles will lose their last advantage.

Left 4 dead split screen