Should we welcome Xbox 360 to computer gaming?

[mysticD]

Khuutra said:

shio said:

Khuutra said:
PCs are generally defined by moddability, aren't they? The Xbox 360 is too closed in terms of hardware and software to be considered a PC.

PCs weren't always "defined" by moddability though. It was only in the mid 90's that modding of PCs and games took flight. Anyway, it is possible to modify your Xbox 360, from simple aesthetics to switching HDD's, to more legally-strained modding and such.

Still a closed system. I could keep a PC for twenty years and play all those games the entire time if I kept the parts updated. That's not possible with the Xbox. I'm always going to have to buy the new one.

I have couple box full of PC games in my garage that doesn't run on my current system anymore.  And seriously keeping a tower size PC around from each generation just to play some of the game??   Let said 5 years from now when the next box come out, I probably can still pick up 360 for cheap and most likely the new system will be compatible.   Heck, my Dreamcast still work well when I hook it up last week.  I can't even play game just from few years ago on my current PC without downloading patch or mod.