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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
I guess the next question is at what point does your console become a computer. You can't really sit on your couch, casually, with a mouse/keyboard setup, and you can't comfortably put your 44" HD-TV on your desk either. Personally, I feel that both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are more like stripped down computers than pure consoles like the Wii is.
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The biggest problem gaming faces on the PC is quite literally the OS. While it does multi-tasking really well, multi-tasking is also what kills gaming. The CPU is quite literally grabbing information, executing a set number of cycles, then storing its current state, and grabbing in the information for the next task. Your PC may have a CPU twice the speed of a console, yet you watch the console pump out real-time HD graphics and wonder why your computer can't play Crysis. Your hardware is being crippled by the overhead of a OS that's designed to multi-task.
If a new OS came out that contained no GUI and only allowed you to run one program in full-screen mode, you could run games tremendously faster. Not going to happen, but running games on a multi-purpose OS is horrible for it. Hence why consoles exist.