MikeB on 22 June 2008
@ Squilliam
Furthermore PC development is getting stronger, not weaker so im not sure where you're coming from there.
This is why the gaming market more and more focusses on console technology:
Source: NPD (PC Gaming market, US/NA)
2001 - 2002 ~ 10% decline
2002 - 2003 ~ 14.3% decline.
2003 - 2004 ~ 14% decline
2004 - 2005 ~ 19% decline
2005 - 2006 ~ 2% growth! (World of Warcraft and the Sims 2 dominated, not the most demanding games)
2006 - 2007 ~ 9% decline
The console market on the other hand is generating record gains. The console market dwarfs the PC market. And consoles have become far more technically competitive with PCs, capable of doing everything a gaming PC does. The Cell provides more perfomance than ordinary PC CPUs can deliver with regard to gaming, there are already ~14 million PS3 with default Blu-Ray drives out there, the PC is probably going to adopt Blu-Ray a bit quicker than it did DVD, but still it's going to take quite a while. And consoles are now able to deliver an awesome online experience and it's going to get better with enhancements such as Home.
