Originally Posted by
endersblade
But that's kinda the point. If you finally got rid of these fuckered up consoles, PCs would take their place. Inevitably someone would make a 'console PC' (I think Steam's doing that already?) that would plug into your TV like a console, but being a PC, game makers wouldn't have to make multiple versions of the same game, dumb them down for consoles, then port those shitty versions over to a PC like they do now. It would all be ONE system. Programming and coding would be so much simpler.
You mention "but not all games work with a controller". Right, and those games never go to consoles, do they? Your point is moot, as that's how the current system works ANYWAY. Besides, more and more games lately are adding support for controllers on PC; it boggles my mind that Blizzard doesn't have innate support for controllers in D3. So, again, you have ONE console that has games that do and do not function with a controller, rather than several consoles to split them up over.
There doesn't need to be any exclusive 'boxes'. Fuck steam, fuck origin. Make a PC. Plug it into your TV, watch netflix (which I believe MOST freaking consoles are sold for, I swear), play your games. No need for anything fancy or special, just a regular PC. One console. One box.
I don't care if it gets called something else. As long as the system inside is still the same, it makes it much simpler for the game companies. Instead of having to support two different video cards (ATI/AMD and Nvidia) as well as several different consoles running the different cards, you just have one system running the two different architectures to deal with. Two choices is a lot better than 3+, right?
Especially when every different version you make just costs more and more money, and the game you create might bomb on one system in sales while it does wonderfully on another. Eventually the company will just drop making games on that bad console all together, and then the people who ONLY have that one system won't be able to play the games they want.
PC gamers get fucked out of certain games because the companies behind them don't want to 'port' them to PC, even though they were probably MADE on a fucking computer. So I have to go out and spend a small fortune on consoles that I will hardly ever play just because I want to play a particular game. That's just plain theft in my book.
As for which I/O device is the best? Who gives a shit? The computer can use them all! Driving wheels, controllers, arcade sticks, fucking internet-driven dildos, it doesn't matter, if it can plug into a PC, it'll get used!