You PC zealots should really get a clue. I love my PC and I love my consoles but in truth, the PC is an awful games platform if you are talking about practicality. The ONLY advantage that PCs have over consoles (when talking about standard retail games) are:
1) Mouse and keyboard control
2) High resolution displays
The screen resolution issue is soon it become a moot point when Xbox360 and PS3 roll in with HD. Leaving the only advantage of the PC being it's control medium, which is only really an advantage in first person shooters and strategy games. I'm really interested to see how the Revolution copes with these genres.
Pureball, you should really pop down the shops and see if you can buy a clue from somewhere. When the first Xbox came out I paid 300 quid for it, a few months before I bought it I purchased a GeForce3 card for my PC for the same price. I am still playing fantastic games on my Xbox whereas the PC with that video card in is now gathering dust while I use my bro's PC to play BF2 (9800XT in it). Fair enough, on a technical level PC hardware iterations always outstrip the current generation of consoles but the difference comes down to how well developers take advantage of what's available to them. Decent console developers will work their nuts off to squeeze every last drop of power from a console, whereas PC developers just cop out and up the minimum specs (making ATI & Nvidia a few more bucks). When the Xbox360 comes out or the PS3, it will take a long time for PCs to be able to match them in performance and even longer for the necessary PC hardware to become cost effective to the average consumer.
And lets not even get started on how much of a fiddle setting up a PC and it's games are.
Aaaaaaanyway........ Back to topic WoW geeks