no please explain it again
sure it is
Why would you need a console to play PC games?
Quote from: Supez on 09-01-2013, 00:00:22 AMWhy would you need a console to play PC games?But now I'm not so sure, frequent hardware upgrades can cause FRAGMENTATION and then developers no longer have a single hardware platform to write games for.Seems more like a PC than a game console
Quote from: steev on 09-01-2013, 01:30:08 AMQuote from: Supez on 09-01-2013, 00:00:22 AMWhy would you need a console to play PC games?But now I'm not so sure, frequent hardware upgrades can cause FRAGMENTATION and then developers no longer have a single hardware platform to write games for.Seems more like a PC than a game consoleThere probably wouldn't be that many available upgrades each year. And developers don't want to alienate audiences that have inferior technology. Even if there's a few different pieces of hardware that a console could potentially have, it isn't that much more work than if there was one potential piece of hardware. Certainly less than today's game optimization, which is practically impossible beyond optimizing for operating systems. Even if it got to the point where hardware from previous Steambox upgrade generations weren't supported for entire games, it'd be equivalent in life cycle to where the PS2 is now(though the console life cycle itself would be much shorter)