Console > PC

That short title should portray what most of this post will be about.

I used to be a PC gamer. I would play whatever I managed to beg my PC to play. I just barely got Counter Strike: Source to run. One thing I was used to, though, was getting SOME kind of obstacle keeping me from the playing the game. I would pop a CD in and expect it to run. No, I need a better video card. I need to re-install the game because files are missing (I do so. Nothing changes). I need more free disk space. "Random error that cannot be fixed." Game won't load. Something is out-dated; you can download an update from here: site doesn't exist. Game just plain won't start. Freezes. Crashes. The list of absolutely ridiculous excuses goes on and on. Bottom line: PCs are the gaming platforms of the past. To successfully play a game on one you need to spend large amounts of money to buy a teched-out hunk of hardware that will be technology of the Stone Age the moment a new game comes out. Why should anyone bother to wrestle with expensive hunks of scrap metal to play games when they can get a video-game console? There is no updating and random errors and buying new video cards and getting more space and problem after stupid problem. I stand firm behind what I am about to say: I condemn PC gaming. I believe it is a waste of money and time. It has achieved nothing that console gaming can't do better, with the exception of MMOs. You pop in your disk. You play. No installing, buying new gadgets, checking if your PC can support game, and that frustration one gets when the computer plain refuses to run the game. The PC should be for the internet and internet related applications. Basic stuff like Photoshop and Microsoft Office programs. It's easy to see that PC games are becoming less popular. Games for Windows is trying to bring it back, but why spend big bucks on a high-tech PC that can run a game, when you can play it on an Xbox 360 for less than half the money and much less than half the burden?

Games like Far Cry 2, Crysis and the PC version of Gears of War, are all ways to bring back PC gaming which used to be one of Microsoft's strongest points and biggest money maker. They give you Halo 2 only on Vista so you spend that extra money to get Vista. Gears of War on the PC will have all those special new chapters and battles. Why? So those that have it for the Xbox 360 will now want to pay Microsoft cash to make sure their PCs are tough enough to handle Gears of War. Crysis will undoubtedly require people to invest in video cards and other PC upgrades, which Microsoft will obviously sell full price.

Is it worth it? An HD TV and an Xbox 360 are all you need to enjoy that game in the comfort of your livingroom, instead of sitting at your computer desk. And with a bigger, better screen to play it on, without errors being thrown in your face while you're playing and all the other crap that you have to put up with to play the same thing on the PC. By all means boycott Games For Windows. It is a waste of money for something you can enjoy much more on a 360 for less than half of what you'd pay to play on a PC.

Take care and have fun gaming,

-ProjektWikked