Originally posted by: raystorm
Originally posted by: Gurck
Further, the ones that are are generally gimped, having been designed for obsolete hardware. Further yet, some must be exclusive to a certain console for a specified length of time (GTA games are PS2-only for 1 year) to ensure the console maker gets more money.
Why not put blame on the developers for not taking advantage of pc hardware?? Its not the consoles fault its the devs who port it to pc.
As for that PS2 only for 1 year thing.. I think that applies to other consoles only and not the pc. If you notice its the xbox getting the latest GTA months later and the pc port is pretty much the xbox game put on a pc.
Also consoles CAN be upgraded in some form. The Sega Genesis was "upgraded" with the Sega CD and 32X (though both platforms weren't really successful), the Sega Saturn in japan had many games utililizing a 4mb ram cartidge to decrease loading for Capcom and SNK fighters to almost nothing.
I doubt most console gamers give a damn about upgrading though.