I feel a MASSIVE change in the gaming industry

[facher83]

Legend11 said:

facher83 said:

Legend11 said:

BenKenobi88 said:
There's tons of people that will still buy the 360 or PS3 over the Wii, no question. Personally, I would call a lot of these people stupid, as they're the type that need their HD games, their bluetooth headsets, all the latest and greatest technology, no matter what the cost. Sure there's genuine 360 lovers, but a lot of them are just out for the best tech, and there will always be a market for them.

You post about PC games all the time then post garbage like that?

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I'm in the market for a desktop upgrade in the next few weeks.... a $400 investment gets me a decent dual core, motherboard, and 4 gigs of nice DDR2 setup to crush what I have right now..... and certainly a lot more productive functionality than a video game console. I should be able to play games infinitely faster, as well, with better graphics. (I'm an entry level musician that needs number-crunching horsepower)

You need 4 gigs of ram and a dual core processor to create music? How exactly does creating music require "number-crunching horsepower"? Is the current system you have not good enough for creating music or are you predicting weather patterns, simulating nuclear explosions, designing aircraft, studying atomic structures, etc? Lets use "Wii logic" for a minute.. If the computer you have can play games with "good enough" graphics, can be used to create music well enough, surf the web adequately, etc, then why do you need a new computer? Are you just one of those people that BenKenobi88 mentioned that just wants the "latest and greatest technology"?

 You have no concept of what it is, so how can you second guess?

Using 1.5 gigs of active RAM, peaking out CPU processes on a 1.86 ghz Celeron M, yes, I do need it..... unless I want to spend 5 minutes generating content each time I want to listen to a final song.  The simple idea is that I already have the system that does this 'extra' junk, like pictures, mp3's, web surfing, chatting....  any future installment I get, including an upgrade, has all these features these consoles have as well - it's not a selling point.

Number crunching is the same as all these benchmark statistics that use picture editting manipulation and math calculations to generate benchmarks for processors.

I'm sorry, your music-generation software is in another castle.