After reading the gamespot article,
What Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 Will Take From PCs
I just realized that next-gen cosoles is huge scam perpetraded by M$ and Sony to do their usual 8-year cash grab.
So what Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 Will Take From PCs? Well, mostly everything.
Next-gen consoles are basically low-range locked PC boxes ? Onhttp://www.newegg.com/ you can buy a custom built PC with equivalent specs for some 350$ right now. If we make it dedicated, the newegg PC will equal or even surpass next-gen consoles graphically-wise. So those specs will be totally outdated by the end of the year. We are talking here about next gen consoles just catching up with current gen PC graphics, but not going toe-to-toe with it, at least in the begining, like in the previous gen.
So why M$ and Sony make all those "researches" to build their own versions of locked PC boxes and don´t just grab equivalent prebuilt pcs for their needs ?
The answer is simple: they want to sell us outdated hardware themselves making a nice buck in the process. They are selling you a low-range PC in exchange of a promise of some exclusives. Exclusives that they sell you for additional 60 bucks.
That statement that they sell the consoles at a lost at launch is a big b*llsh*t. How you can sell those specs at a loss for 300-400$ when newegg is selling the equivalent even greater specs for the same price OS including ? What the hell ? Is newegg is selling their PCs at a lost too ? I don´t think so.
There is only one logical reason for this, they want to sell you low-range hardware themselves, otherwise they would quit making consoles long time ago and would use custom built pcs instead ?
Especially M$. They own Windows. Why to not make a console OS that would have a cross compatibility with PC ? Why they don´t do that ? In that case, they would sell their outdated hardware less. This is why. It´s simple as that.
Making just game is not enough anymore. They have to scam noob casual gamers as much as possible. Because big corporations need big money to keep existing. Everyone wants to create and hold the monopoly. M$ with Xbox, Sony with PS, and Nintendo, with WiiU. Nobody wants to resign to their 8-year hardware cash grab.
The gaming would have been so much easier if there was one single open gaming platform based on free OS fully compatible with PCs. So the M$, Nintendo and Sony would focus on making good games rather than on hardware wars. But that would imply an honest competition, prices wars, leaving the hardware manufacture in the hands of the third parties, industry standards, etc., that is, exactly what cash grabbers don´t want to deal with.
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