twesterm on 08 April 2010
| TWRoO said: It's a platform, not a console. Arguably there are two ways of looking at it I suppose, 1 is that a [gaming] console is something built for playing games on, not used for anything else.... in that sense the last proper console was the GameCube, as even the Wii is a hybrid device now. The other way of looking at it is what something is used for.... if you connect your machine, be it Wii/PS3/360 OR PC to your display device, and ONLY use it to play games then it is a gaming console.... in that sense a PC can be a gaming console, but it is far more unusual... some people with lots of money may have a special gaming PC that they only use for games in addition to the normal web browsing and working PC... but for most a PC is a multimedia device. |
I believe the proper way to think of it is that a device that is made primarily a devoted home gaming device that is not a portable.
