Grickit said:
Playing on consoles is not a disease. It's a cure. The symptoms the disease it fixes (I will satirically call it PCitis):
Okay, lets see what ya got here...
The industry's obsession with Piracy
Well, what will happen is that all the pirates will jump on the console platforms, and console piracy will rise further. As if the used game sales market, chip modding and firmware hacking wasn't hectic enough for the console manufacturers...
Having to upgrade/buy new machines every two years
We recoup that loss by by buying cheaper games from Steam, thank you. Also by not paying for our internet twice over by signing up on XBL.
90% of the market not being able to play games on decent looking graphics settings
Care to provide a source?
Lack of standardization
We currently have a very healthy market due to the competition between ATI and Nvidia, who are constantly pushing hardware capabilities. If gaming technology depended upon the long console cycles, technology would've stagnated.
And before you go talking about how graphics don't matter any more because visuals can't improve much further etc, remember, Crysis 2 has much smaller maps than Crysis 1's open-world environment, and accommodates half the total players in MP (16, as opposed to Crysis 1's 32) purely because of the hardware limitations of the consoles. So hardware limitations do hinder gameplay.
Giving people have excuses to stay on buggy, exploitable, outrageously expensive, sub-par operating systems simply because they have more games
What OS are you talking about? I installed Windows 7 back in 2009, and it has yet to crash. It's also <url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10444561-245.html>more secure than a Mac.
And do you propose that I shift my web development, 3D modelling, word processing etc to consoles? How does that work?
Besides that, I'm running emulators of the Sega Genesis, SNES, PS1, PS2, Wii, NDS and a couple of other platforms, something your console manufacturers lock you out from doing. And a console will probably burst into flames trying to run Shogun 2.
I would also miss the modding community and companies like GSC and Frictional Games, who can't afford expensive unique console dev kits.
Simple fact is, there is nothing consoles can do that I can't do with my PC. And I do it without any restrictions. All you have is a couple of exclusives. Really not a game changer...