If you don't care for the exclusives, then by all means don't get a console. Please don't! We can't seem to convice you with all our arguments and yet you continue to ask the same question over and over again. Look if you enjoy tweaking your pc and playing games on it - that's fine by me. You won't be able to write about console games though as you have no exposure to them ;-) Perhaps that is a compelling reason?

I don't enjoy tweaking my rather new PC. I am disappointed by the fact that - whilst it is powered by an Intel Core Duo E4400 with Nvidia 8600GT graphics card and is sporting a whopping 3Gb of RAM - it still won't run Oblivion properly. I actually preferred the mouse/keyboard control scheme but when I saw it running flawlessly on the Xbox 360 I rushed out and got it for the 360. A guaranteed framerate and gameing experience for my money. I've tried out other Vista games, I let my machine's Windows-experience-Index guide me. Well the results were disappointing in my case. Whilst my computer runs Mame and quite a lot of emulators well it does fail to perform on some Vista games that are supposed to run fine on my system. I don't want to have to open up the case, take out the CPU and replace it with a faster one or replace the graphics card with one that takes up two slots and draws more than 100 Watts of power - I don't think my computer's power supply will be able to cope with something like that. Don't forget that the arcade games you play on Mame have originated on closed / very closed propitiatory arcade systems - very much like consoles.

Matt, don't you dare get a console you hear!

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