A PC is NOT a Console!!!!

[ironman]

WereKitten said:

@Ironman
At this point I can't understand if you're in good faith and oblivious to elementary logic, or you're playing deaf.
Because you're again mixing up two different contexts.

Hardly, It's quite clear, a console is designed to perform one main task, a gaming console's main task is gaming, I really don't get how you are confused about that.

Your living room might also be your gaming room, because that's where you have your consoles or your billiard table. And still it's a room and it's a living room. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.

The Merriam-Webster definition of a Personal Computer: "a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user"

An iPhone respects this definition in full.

No, it doesn't, being a "PC" is a secondary operation and purpose. It's main purpose and reason for existing, is as a phone.   

The versatility that you perceive has nothing to do with it because nowhere in the definition it is written that a PC has to perform task x,y and z to be called so. Only that it must be multi-purpose, the variety of its capabilities depending on the software you write for it.

This is true, and right there you just proved that a PC is not a console because it has many primary purposes. a Gaming console has ONE primary purpose. even if a person uses it as a DVD player only, the reason it exists is to play games, all other uses are secondary. for the PC, it has no secondary purposes, all are primary.

As I said, most people will tell you that they know very well the difference between a computer and a console, or a smart phone and a computer. That doesn't make less true that the strict definitions you find in dictionaries -and that you quoted- don't allow such an easy distinction and don't make those mutually exclusive.

So you agree that a PC is not a gaming console, but you disagree with the way I argue that point???

I really don't think that repeating these same concepts another time would be any useful for any reader of this thread, so it's off and out for me. 

No it really wouldn't because you are missing the point, A PC has MANY primary functions, and console has ONE, and THAT is what separates the two. Your argument is based on ONE person's perception of what a room/Iphone/DVD Player/PC/ does. But that does not change what the main intended purpose of that "thing" is. 

 

@ Puffy, Obviously, it is not to some people, I give you exibit A.

@WiiBox, The point of this thread is to define whether or not the PC is a gaming console. That is all. The reason it matters is because fanboy arguments are generally based around symantics and perceived differences / likenesses of a Gaming console and a PC. All I am doing is trying to give people a thread they can referance to stop said arguments and hopefully bring a little more perspective to where each person is coming from.