Are Consoles ruining the gaming industry?

[prlatino86]

MikeB said:

prlatino86 said:

MikeB said:
@ prlatino86

Sooo, to your beginning point. How is this a benefit over PC when PC just streams straight off the harddrive?

More space for data, you can for example have a much wider varierty of high quality textures.

More Space data doesnt matter, because they can just put it on multiple DVDs as theyve done in the past with CDs. Play isnt effected by multiple discs either because its all streamed off harddrive.

Installing multiple DVDs entirely onto a harddrive will take lots of harddrive space, many PCs are only equipped with 20 GB- 60 GB harddrives, on a PC with Windows and office installed this would mean you can only have 1 such game stored on your PC and be running into Windows virtual memory issues.

Installing the DVDs will be time consuming are far from a hassle free experience most people would like to endure. I don't see this happening anytime soon, however dual layer PS3 games are just around the corner.

Dude, are you kidding me? How old is you computer? One of my Harddrives alone is 80 gig, and its 4 years old. Hell, you probably cant FIND a 20 gig harddrive for sale. (unless its like a raptor SATA drive) You can get a 250 Gig Harddrive for 75 bucks. Cheap computers even come now with 250 gig harddrives, while some top end computer have a Terabyte of HDD space. (two 500 gig drives)

Edit: Hell, i just found out my father has a 450 gigs on his computer, and all he does is watch movies and surf the web on there.