RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> I am confused. I am not a gamer, so I don't know much about this,
but
I
> had always been led to believe that you need a high-spec PC to run
the
> latest games. But the X-Box is supposed to be the mutt's nuts
gaming
> box, and the above spec. is _very_ basic compared to modern PCs.
If
the
> X-Box is basically a PC, how come it performs so much better on
games
> than an equivalent or superior PC?

Apart from Tony's well worded reply the other point is that you can
indeed easily get a PC to run games faster/better/bigger (faster being
the important one, don't you know frame rate is life ;)) on a PC if you
are prepared to spend a lot of time and money on it. The point is that
for most people the sheer convenience of a console is far preferable to
them, virtually instant on, can do several things, pop in a CD/DVD and
you are playing a game in a few seconds whereas the PC route is a
little
harder to go with. Plus there's no messing about with drivers, updating
stuff bla, bla, bla...I'm sure you see what I'm getting at here.

Having been gaming for many years I still prefer a PC (staunch
k/b+mouse
combi man) and I find consoles quite clumsy for the games I generally
play, control wise, for games and not configurable enough for me.

Although sometimes I do wonder about the sanity of some people, myself
included at times, of doing this because as Tony said in a way, there
is
virtually no software that can take advantage of the hardware. What it
does do is allow you to run what is out there very quickly indeed which
comes into its own playing games online like Unreal Tournament.

K.

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