What is holding gaming back? (my vision for the future of gaming)

[Rainbird]

thranx said:

Rainbird said:

ranted, PCs are closer to what I imagine, but that doesn't really change anything when we're discussing consoles. PCs will always be different than consoles, and I certainly have ideas for how it would work on there as well, but as you said, it's already heading in that direction. I love that Valve have brought Steam to the Mac and the way they've done it as well, but consoles are not PCs, even if the gap has closed a bit this generation, and so their solution will be different.

Thus PCs are not really relevant in this discussion.

PCs aren't relevant because they are doing what you want already? PC's and consoles are not so different anymore, and from a hardware perspective they contain all of the same parts. The only difference right now is that most people do not have their pc's hooked up to their tv's but even that is changing now that tvs and pcs share alot of the same connections. What you want is mostly in place already, and the rest is on the way. Consoles will never be like that though, they will just be replaced with pcs and possibly their own OS to dual boot from.

Then you don't know what I want, because consoles are a major part of that. And unless you want your PC to come with locked hardware configurations, consoles will continue to exist. Or be replaced with services like OnLive, but either way, PCs are not the answer to this specific problem.