RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> 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.

I'm not sure what you mean by "realism" on a console, to me the
ported
over PC version or vice versa look pretty much the same, only smoother
and often more detailed on the PC IMO.

And as for a gamer saying faster isn't better, shame on you Mr Butler!
:P

> 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)!

Well, it is going that way already really.

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

And that's one of the strongest selling points of the PC as a games box
for me as, for FPS games IMHO, the PC is king of the hill with speed,
controllability and customisation and you really can't replicate that
on
a console.

K.

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