My article came out very similar to yours, in the end. I just had a few more things to add… the key being that NONE of his arguments really apply to Vista! LOL

Not only can I play terrific games, but I can design maps for Crysis with Sandbox 2. Oh, and I have arcade emulators on here… oh, and tons of classic games you can’t get for consoles… oh, and San Andreas Multiplayer patch… oh, and I play PS/PS2/Gamecube/NES/SNES games on here as well. Oop! I almost forgot all of the free games, programs, and movies I can find in seconds with a good net connection!

But yeah, you’ll need to spend $4,000 to match what a console can do, lol…

Better work on your arguments/facts more next time.

I’m going to have to agree with Donovan, above. Please spend more time on your articles, and ensure they have something to do with your title This is a disorganized, incorrect list. Your content does not match your title or conclusion.

Why? Let’s go through your list:

1) Hardware compatibility with XBox 360 controllers… why is this even on here? This has little to do with PC gaming other than another controller option. By the way; I got a bootleg PS2 and 360 controller for my PC a long time ago, and I’m running on XP. This point has nothing to do with this article’s title “Will Vista Run Your Games”.

2) Wireless options have also been available for PCs in general for a long time. Why site it as an improvement in Vista? Again, wrong context, poor idea. This doesn’t belong here.

3) That’s true, and it’s nice to see cross platform… but once again, this is not a ***Vista*** idea! Resident Evil? Oblivion? Cross platform gaming is not Vista specific, man!

4) … Once again… ICQ? MSN? Not Vista specific!

5) They’ve been on the boxes for years, and once again: This is not about the OS. This is about cardboard boxes. You are supposed to be covering Vista’s abilities… not how they print labels on boxes.

6) That’s cool! I won’t argue with you, here. It’d be nice just to double click savegames. Wait… how is this Vista specific?

7) Nice to have parental controls, but this option’s been around for years as well, and is, again, *not Vista specific*!

8) Yeah, Crysis looks good in DX10, eh? THEY TRICKED YOU. You can unlock DX10 detail in DX9.0c! That’s right! The DX10 features are pissing off gamers around the world, because they are faked. You simply are not allowed to have the option of going very high detail when you are in XP, but if you replace the high end graphics files with very high detail you can run so called DX10 graphics options in XP JUST FINE. So that’s a lie they’re trying to fool you with.

9) Umm… this has NO place here. It’s like saying “Good luck setting up a MP game if you don’t know what you’re doing at all”! Actually… most MP games are easy to set up, and they don’t mysteriously work one day and not the next… You might as well throw in an argument about network ghosts who haunt your system. You just couldn’t come up with a #9, could you?

10) This only makes sense if support has been programmed into the game itself, and once again… Nothing to do with Vista itself!

WELL DONE!

You didn’t make a single argument that actually applied to a Vista experience.

Don’t write more articles unless you actually do some real research first.

Instead of trying to recruit console gamers to PC, how about addressing the major complaint about PC gaming? Coding quality, developers code PC games like crap because they can get away with it while on a console they cannot. Too many games today were not polished, resulting in them running like crap on everything but GPUs in the £250+ price range.

This takes the costs of better optimising a game and puts them on the consumer with upgrades, making the much cheaper and better optimised consoles more appealing despite modern PC hardware being superior. Sure due to the diversity of hardware it will never be as optimised as console games, but I know they can do better when 360 ports are lagging on GPUs with much higher specs than the 360s one.

Force developers to adhere to a standard before a game is allowed on retail shelves, do this and I guarantee PC gaming will boon.

Sure enough it costs more, but it is better. I think it’s fine you like console gaming, but don’t say it is better then PC just because you don’t like to spend the money on a good PC.

Thats why i love consoles. They just work.

potential high, the desighners made several flaws. attempting to get more

people to play, they balanced the weapons, now there are no weapons that

can make those whiny noobs say “wtf? you hacker!”. add on top of that

that, while you used to realy on youre sheild for cover, and run when

youre health went orange, now you run when youre sheilds are low, because

theres no health bars. while dual weilding was a good idea, lowing the

power of old favs, loke the pistol, from an almighty weapon to a water

pistol, and there new SMG’s arent good unless dual weilded. and then the

most favored selection of wepons, the human set, is now worthless due o

the fact that they do little dammage to youre sheilds, and as mentioned

before, thats all you have. many people have had trouble with the new

rifle, the Battle Rifle, because its no longer an auto, and while others

like its accuracy, many just like to let lose a storm of molten lead.

and many people have had troubles with this “Match Making” setup

used on Xbox Live, the complaints are that its to slow, and isnt very

accurate, on on to that, that the entire game setup is random. then you

get weird flaws, where the evel gap is just to great, and you sometimes

end up fighting either someone to weak, or someone to powerful. to piss

even more people off, all this comes at a high price, be it that youre

playing it for PC, where you pay for Vista for no technological reason

for it to not be on XP, other then money. thens theres Xbox, where youre

paying a monthly fee. no, many people scream out “why should i have to

pay for such a crappy game? and what if i dont want Vista? I DONT WANT

VISTA!” well, theres nop suck luck for you my dear freinds, my only

advice is to either wait till Microsoft learns they arent gonna recruit

enough people via Halo 2.

while on the topic of how much Microsoft sucks, did you know that

there was a mod for Command and Conquer Zero Hour that was basicly JUST

like Halo Wars. get this, this show just how bent Microsoft is on money.

now, can you guess what Microsoft did about this? they forced the team

who made this mod to delete all theire files on it, and close all theire

sites. thats right, you heard correctly, they made them DELELTE ALL THEIR

HARD WORK! they treatened to sue, and held the right to sue even AFTER

they deleted it all. now, the team who made this mod wasnt planning on

making any money… they just wanted to make a 3rd pary mod, how often

does Microsoft jump on these cases? never. why this one? who knows, all i

know is that Microsoft was in some way trying to protect theire money.

What i also know is that anyone who was gonna buy halo wars, will still

buy it, they wont replace it with a mod. As for anyone who will, well,

they likely wouldnt have bought halo wars anyways.

that sums up this summary on Halo 2, and some of Microsoft in

general. (btw, wtf? Microsoft? somthing about that name makes them sound

weak if you ask me.)

i have had no slowdown on any of my games and so far everything works
i dunno what the fuss is about at all
it doesnt even cost that much to build a rig once you know where to get the parts.
i hear people complaining that a pc costs like 2g’s to get a good gaming system.
but u have to remember
if u use a pc (if u r reading this then obviously) pcs do everything
hell. console games are designed on pc anyway (or should i say Workstations, same thing anyway)

oh and by the way my system i use for work and it only cost me 1200 and that was because to the wide screen monitor i wanted.

which brings me to another point:

IF U WANT A NEXT GEN CONSOLE TO HAVE GREAT GRAPHICS YOU NEED TO BUY A HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION. (which will cost alot more than a gaming PC)

sure the consoles have some cool games b4 pc but when those games eventually cross over to pc they kick ass even more. perfect example is any of the Grand theft auto games. the pc version is always the best.
halo is better on pc than on xbox in my opinion. (nothing beats a keyboard or mouse).
any of the battlefied games (64 players online compared to 32 on console)
and i hear everyone talking about gears of war. granted it a good game i love it. but can u imagine what it would be like on PC? (I heard rumors that it is coming to PC but we’ll wait and see. it would make sense)

Link:http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14345

I will say I’m looking forward to the new OS features, I’m a geek like that, I am also currently using a 37″ LCD monitor and I am interested in see how much better it looks on there, but I figure I’ll have a Blu-Ray DVD-RW drive long before I get windows Vista.

Thanks for reading this (if you did)

January 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Looks like someone needs to check their facts and their grammar. This article, though somewhat interesting, is wildly inaccurate and opinionated. Let’s correct a few of the more glaring stupidities, shall we?

1. Nowadays the best shooters are NOT on consoles – true, Gears of War and the Halo series (though not my personal favorite by any means) are strong, good games that ARE on consoles (though Gears is clearly coming to the PC eventually) but PC gaming still has easily, by far, the best shooters not only in variety and complexity but also in ease and precision of control. A gamepad, not matter how much auto-aiming is provided, will never rival the simplicity and elegance of the mouse & keyboard combo for aiming and shooting. Not to mention that this year alone sees some gigantic, big-name shooters all coming to the PC – Crysis (recently confirmed as not coming to any consoles ever), Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, UT2K7, BioShock, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and GRAW 2 all show that the PC still gets the majority of heavy-hitting, well-respected PC First-Person Shooters.

Tony, you speak of factual evidence and then you blatantly say that fps are better on PC’s. That is opinion also, so I guess you should call your former post “drivel”. Maybe you should learn the difference between fact and opinion, before you correct other people’s grammatical errors. Oh, and the term “elegance” sounds really strange when talking about mouse and keyboard; maybe you are just so refined with mouse in hand. haha. Also, I didn’t know that “years can see”, but I guess you know everything.

(By “PC” it could also mean a Mac, which are often used for graphics/CAD in games. PC simply stands for Personal Computer, it doesn’t mean a particular brand. Macs ARE PCs really, just made by one company, Apple. But thats a whole other topic.)

Until HighDefinition TVs really catch on, next Gen consoles graphically will lack the crispness of a 22inch PC monitor running at say, 2048*1536 (my preferred resolution, especially for San Andreas!) . What baffles me is why they don’t bring out “Gaming Monitors”, that plug into consoles and provide 2000 plus pixel resolutions.
I guess the answer is to that is, Consoles are targeted as a ‘living room’ system that plugs into your existing (and rapidly becoming dated) anologue TV sets. Btw….If you havent played San Andreas on a high spec PC with all details maxxed out, and mouselook and all that, you havent played it at all!

Consoles are stagnant and start aging the very second they are created. (Like one guy already mentioned elsewhere above.)
PCs have an infinitely upgradable lifecycle. If they werent upgradable, sure, newer Consoles would naturally be more powerful and to answer that we would simply be forced to buy ready-made Next Gen PCs.

I’m totally going off topic here, but back to the point that ALL CONSOLES GAMES ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN CREATED ON PC’s (the father) and are ported as necessary to the Consoles as finished games (the offspring). How can the offspring be more powerful than that which created it??

I really don’t see why you cannot connect a keyboard and mouse to a Next Gen Console……………..but then it would practically become a PC what with Hard drives and Net access. The boundaries of PCs/Consoles maybe blurred in time. Perhaps Consoles are really just PCs with everything except gaming abililty taken out.

WINDOWS VISTA……….FOUR DAYS TO GO……..WOOOOOO!! *ahem* ooops got a bit excited there at the thought of the start of the next-gen PC gaming revolution. QUADCOREs already here.
OCTACORE, DECICORE processors anyone?
It’s only a matter of time.

Thats WoW only, and WoW is an RPG, which like every other one out there, requires a monthly subscription.

“3) Can go rent a game play it for the weekend and return it once you’re done. No need to buy the game clear it in two days and be out 50 – 60 dollars.”

You can rent PC games as well…

“1) No upgrades, buy the console plug it in and it works.”

Thats what happens with PC as well, only PC delivers better graphics, and better playability.

I own both a 360 and a PC.

1) No upgrades, buy the console plug it in and it works.
2) Multiplayer games just work. No monthly access fee for each title you own just one fee that’s it.
3) Can go rent a game play it for the weekend and return it once you’re done. No need to buy the game clear it in two days and be out 50 – 60 dollars.

I am sure there are many more but these ones come to mind.

I think that Vista will probrably suck when it comes out, but that Microsoft will fix it up, patch some issues, and about a year from now, it will probrably be a worthy OS.

And as for th whole PC vs Console thing:

PC’s will always be better, faster, smarter, and technologically advanced, while Consoles will always be dwarfed by a PC’s power.

But when it comes down to it, a PC costs a ridiculous amount of money to put together to play games such as the un-released “Crysis”. Consoles are meant to be cheap, whic is one reason why the PS3 isn’t being pursued by as many people as the PS2, 360, or Wii. $400 for a 360 is the best deal that you’re going to get for a machine that can at least look spectacular on some levels. Not to mention that its an even playing ground. Everyone has the same controllers, same console, and same games. Noone has an advantage over another, making for an even, equal playing field. So, while consoles have game-play down, PC’s will always be ontop of the lastest tech, and will always have beautifully detailed games that can look photo-realistic.

Either way, Consoles and PC’s are both worthy pieces of hardware, and they both perform their duties well. Why else would PC gaming be so popular, and why else would consoles start showing up on the news, and become an everyday necessity in a house?

–General Rap

1. Nowadays the best shooters are NOT on consoles – true, Gears of War and the Halo series (though not my personal favorite by any means) are strong, good games that ARE on consoles (though Gears is clearly coming to the PC eventually) but PC gaming still has easily, by far, the best shooters not only in variety and complexity but also in ease and precision of control. A gamepad, not matter how much auto-aiming is provided, will never rival the simplicity and elegance of the mouse & keyboard combo for aiming and shooting. Not to mention that this year alone sees some gigantic, big-name shooters all coming to the PC – Crysis (recently confirmed as not coming to any consoles ever), Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, UT2K7, BioShock, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and GRAW 2 all show that the PC still gets the majority of heavy-hitting, well-respected PC First-Person Shooters.

The other glaring stupidity is implying that the PC, in general, isn’t as valid of a gaming platform as it once was. This is wrong as well. If you look at release data focusing on sales, number of different titles, and creativity of games released, you’ll find that the PC is still extremely strong in each of these areas. Even more so in the sales category if you include subscription-based fees and downloadable sales figures.

Come on fellas, if you’re going to shove your article onto Digg, at least ensure that it’s of reasonable quality (spell-checked, grammar-checked) and somewhat factual – not this opinionated drivel.

Nuff said.