Those kinds of games will still exist, just as PC titles. And I'm sure there will be PCs designed to function with your TV rather than a computer monitor. Valve has already produced one. What I'm suggesting is that the idea of a console will become so synonymous with a gaming PC that they'll cease to be separate platforms. Your next console might not be a console, but a PC with a controller and HDMI output.

Whether it is or isn't, I refuse to invest in a "computer" where I can't resell my games. Luckily Nintendo has played their card and it's now up to Sony & Microsoft to (fully) play theirs. If the games on the next generation consoles are similar to Steam or digital only, I'll stop buying the new consoles. If the digital copies are 30-40 instead of 60, then maybe. Since that's roughly what I spend per game after I sell them back to GameStop anyways.

For what it's worth, here's what Carmack has to say:

No, you do have that exact same guarantee. The same video cards that came out in 2005 when the PS3 & 360 were released will absolutely play today's games just fine. The catch is that you actually know how low "console quality" graphics are, which most aren't comfortable with.

That was more or less what I had said. Although there are cases in which a game is more optimized for a console than for the PC. For example, I have a laptop that runs Oblivion better than my Xbox does, yet Skyrim is unplayable on it even when everything is scaled down to the bare minimum.

What resolution are you attempting to play Skryim at? And is your laptop the god awful Intel graphics kind, with the world's worst drivers?

I think your internet-inflated self-righteous ego is getting in the way of your comprehension; it'd be wise to turn your "Smug Reply" posting quota down more than a few notches.

No it has ATI radeon graphics(128mb VRAM I think, which is horrible now, but was decent in 05), and I tried running Skyrim at the lowest resolution I could. The effect isn't the same for all games or all franchises, Portal 2 as an example runs just as well on this laptop as it does on the Xbox. I'm guessing part of the process of optimizing games for consoles in some cases is scaling them back in ways that aren't available to PC users. At any rate, its a Craigslist laptop, so I never expected or would expect it to run modern games. I just wanted to make the point that you could have a computer that runs some console games better than the console, and some worse, depending on how the game is optimized for both platforms.

lol wut? And you're claiming *I* have a self-righteous ego?

Kindly go f**k yourself.

Side note, you may want to go look up the word "comprehension" in a dictionary.



So your GPU was never as good as what was in a console. Why, then, are you making optimization claims about them?

I'm fairly certain comic speaks for all the admins here. Your posts have been getting more and more hostile, and less and less constructive. Please either remedy this or stop posting.