RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

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Quoting Kenneth Watt <kwatt@xxxxxxx>:
> Apart from Tony's well worded reply the other point is that you
can

Thanks very much!

> indeed easily get a PC to run games faster/better/bigger (faster
being
> the important one, don't you know frame rate is life ;)) on a PC if
you
> are prepared to spend a lot of time and money on it. The point is
that

Well yes, but faster isn't necessarily better.  
FPS _is_ very important, but if the game looks kack then who cares?
On an xbox, you are more likely to get a better looking high performing
game 
than on the PC.  Okay, you can run Q3/HL/UT etc at extremely high
framerates on 
modern graphic cards, but they don't look any better for it - you just
don't 
get some of the 'realism' you can get on a console.

Hopefully with the new GeForce-FX card, and the consolidation of the market
into 2 or 3 big players, developers _will_ be able to optimise for a couple
of 
graphic chipsets and sod you if you ain't running nvidia, ati, or matrox
(in 
that order)!

> Having been gaming for many years I still prefer a PC (staunch
k/b+mouse
> combi man) and I find consoles quite clumsy for the games I
generally
> play, control wise, for games and not configurable enough for me.

same here, though I am getting more and more used to the Xbox
controller.
Couldn't use it for counterstrike though :-)

T.

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