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Böltster:

--- Quote from: Nexus on March 07, 2012, 12:08:47 AM ---I like console gaming because you can invite friends over and play splitscreen

Multiplayer really isn't the same on a PC, where multiplayer is limited to online against separate computers.

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lan parties

Nexus:

--- Quote from: Böltster on March 07, 2012, 02:09:01 AM ---lan parties

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It requires multiples computers that each usually cost like 2-3x that of a console and multiple copies of the game in most cases, as well as the fact that

IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME :C

but yeah to be honest I do lan parties more often on PC than on a console...

Night Fox:

--- Quote from: fred da kiko on March 03, 2012, 10:47:27 PM ---that's a wifi box with some wires and an xbox elite controller.

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routers don't have VGA ports but yeah it's still bs

Bisjac:
i predict these will be about 500 bucks, but have the gaming power of a $2,000.00 computer.

for all those who keep thinking "its just another pc" no its not. its a console that plays PC games. there is quite a bit of difference.

This would destroy the PS and the Xbox and their future consoles.
just like steam has already floored gamestop and other game stores.

the future of gaming is not in loving hardcopy items or retail stores.
nor is it in specialized systems with specific bios.

publishers and developers will greatly favor this as they can reach the larger market by simply making PC games and not stufft'ily porting up or downward.

Tammy:

--- Quote from: Bisjac on March 07, 2012, 05:27:00 PM ---i predict these will be about 500 bucks, but have the gaming power of a $2,000.00 computer.

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This. I think it's safe to say that Valve makes enough money to sell their consoles at a loss.

However I'm not sure how easily they will be able to make it run native Windows applications without actually running Windows. Doing so would probably require reverse engineering Windows code and I don't think Microsoft would be happy about that and take legal action. That's I think it's more likely that it would be ran on a Linux based kernel.

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