Should we welcome Xbox 360 to computer gaming?

[theRepublic]

CaseyDDR said:

mysticD said:

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.

There are so many ppl to quote ignorance but you won the pile with this response. Do you NOT know how to run an older program? Do you not know what the command prompt is? 

As for Virus Protection on a Windows based system, I've NEVER gotten a virus in the 10+ years I can remember building them myself and running myself. Know why? I don't use IE. Virus scanners and Spyware removers are scams in themselves, and are only what they are advertising to stop. You mention cheap computers then go to Macs... Macs are more vunerable than Windows by A LOT. Also, Linux is as cheap as it gets considering ITS FREE. Considering you guys are xbot fans, you'd think you'd at least know a bit about a PC being M$ fanboys. 

You make it sound so simple to run older games on operating systems they were never designed for, but that just isn't the case.  I own C&C Red Alert for Windows 95.  It ran great on my old Windows 95 machine.  I tried putting it on my new Windows XP machine a few years ago.  Getting it to run at all was a pain, and when I did, it didn't run quite right.  It had issues it never did on the older machine.  Then it started crashing at the same place over and over again.  It became impossible to play the game after the 5th mission or so.