What would the world be like without consoles?

A better happier healthier place? More than likely! And how would their non existance effect pc games? Would graphics now be at a higher level? Or would pc games be much less advanced? I personally think consoles...while dumbing down a number of pc franchises for retarded console masses...have hada positive effect on gaming in general (duh)...and its clear if they had never been made much less money would be spent on gaming, and so much less people wud decide to make game development their career.....and much less money would be spent by Ati/nvidia making the latest and greatest graphics cards! What do you hardcore hermits that are constantly belittling consoles and boasting about how much better pc gaming is in every single way imaginable think?

there would be world peace, no hunger, and there would be cures for AIDS and cancer

There would be no Nintendo, and thus, the world would be a worse place to live in.

People would fight over ATI vs Nvidia.

No one's ever happy.

Yes, GPU makers forcing us to upgrade with their games because there are zero other options (since there would be no Consoles) to gaming would be a wonderful world. Hey, more logic. We need more of this in System Wars. :roll:

Gaming would have died without consoles.

My take:

Consoles had their place, but they've outlived their purpose. A PC is better suited for any task performed by today's consoles. You like sitting on your couch looking at an HDTV with a wireless controller in your hands? An HTPC in your living room could fulfill that role. We'd all be better off as all software would be available on a single platform.

Ginosaji

Instead of console wars, it would be hardware wars

[QUOTE="lowe0"]I choose my platform for what it does, not what it could be made to do.Ginosaji

If a PC can be made to perfork a task, it does that task. I don't see the distinction. Are you referring solely to ease of use? Because I've never found installing a game or configuring a game pad to be a particularly daunting task.

Arcades would still exist. :o

[QUOTE="Ginosaji"]

[QUOTE="lowe0"]I choose my platform for what it does, not what it could be made to do.lowe0

If a PC can be made to perfork a task, it does that task. I don't see the distinction. Are you referring solely to ease of use? Because I've never found installing a game or configuring a game pad to be a particularly daunting task.

[QUOTE="lowe0"][QUOTE="Ginosaji"]

If a PC can be made to perfork a task, it does that task. I don't see the distinction. Are you referring solely to ease of use? Because I've never found installing a game or configuring a game pad to be a particularly daunting task.

Vandalvideo

Am I stuck with whatever is in Sony's walled garden? Yup. But without it, there's no one to get the PC hardware and software vendors to focus on the aspects of the gaming experience that are important to me. I don't expect them to focus on me - it would do very little to serve their core market - but a product built for my exact use case is going to do a much better job of meeting my needs than a supposed jack-of-all-trades.

Hardly the user experience I'm looking for, or the one being discussed. We're talking about my living room, not an internet cafe - note that the post I replied to specifically proposed an HTPC. Besides, what good would it do me to buy a custom solution? There's no one to force developers to support it. On a console, if you don't use the console's identity manager, if you don't support the console's gamepad, if you don't submit your app for testing, you don't get to release. Without somebody to crack the whip, developers and publishers aren't required to standardize on something like Steam or support gamepads, motherboard manufacturers aren't required to implement starting up from a gamepad, OS vendors aren't required to produce a shell designed for a gamepad, and video card manufacturers aren't required to implement HDMI-CEC. Am I stuck with whatever is in Sony's walled garden? Yup. But without it, there's no one to get the PC hardware and software vendors to focus on the aspects of the gaming experience that are important to me. I don't expect them to focus on me - it would do very little to serve their core market - but a product built for my exact use case is going to do a much better job of meeting my needs than a supposed jack-of-all-trades.lowe0

Maybe people wouldjust playPC games. From what I know about the whole 1983 Game crash as an example, when people stopped playing on game consoles, they started to play on computers such as the Commadore 64. Then the NES brought back console gaming.

I probably would be bored to death, only one of my favourite series is also on pc

The PC gamers would have nobody to feel superior to. :(

Can you imagine a World without Consoles?

There would be much less fun in the world

PC's would have all the games, even nintendo

Ati and Nvidia would have alot more money

far less gamers and far less games due to the smaller market.