Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Phil Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:16:16 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <35F7C310.BB90296C@easynet.co.uk> References: <35F7BE6F.34BAF48E@bigfoot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Darco wrote: > That raises a good and legitimate argument about concoles... You can't > screw anything up. They are idiot proof. The best example is of Final > Fantasy 7. Great game, on playstation or PC, but I hear it's a pain to > get working correctly on PC. The instalation system sucks I hear. On a > console - nothing to install. > > Game consoles were ALWAYS plug-n-play, and now plug-n-play is a big buzz > word in the PC scene. Give me a break. USB is a good start, but consoles > had the idea nailed decades ago. > How about the iMac - as plug and play as a console with the power of a PC. And then some. Shame there's so few games out for it! Phil