gagnonrich opened this issue on Jul 21, 2010 · 48 posts
pjz99 posted Wed, 21 July 2010 at 10:42 PM
Quote - Game consoles are doing more damage to PC revenues. PC software vendors are resorting more towards online retail instead of off-the-shelf dept. store selling. XBOX and PS3 are filling those shelves more and more.
On the other hand, those devices are becoming more and more PC-like (the Xbox essentially IS a PC but with a dumbed down OS/interface). The big distinctions right now are the lower standard of graphics resolution, although that is getting closer as consumer HD televisions become more common, and the out-of-the-box limitation of just a gamepad input device, which makes even something as simple as putting your username/password into a service like Xbox Live rather painful. They're also becoming dramatically more expensive, especially combined with aforementioned HD TV and the miscellaneous controller doodads, batteries and/or chargers for wireless bits, a keyboard, etc.