Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Consoles are dead! Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:05:53 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: <35F83F31.E725710B@bigfoot.com> References: <35F7BE6F.34BAF48E@bigfoot.com> <35F7C310.BB90296C@easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Phil Gooch wrote: > > 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! The iMac is neato... But, even though it packs quite a punch for such a low cost system, it still costs hundreds more than a console. The whole idea behind consoles is that they cost less than computers, but they can provide graphics quality at or above most common PC setups. Believe it or not, most computers can't do what the N64 can do, or for that matter even what the playstation can do. Sure, if you get a new pentium 450 w/128 megs of ram, a dual voo-doo 2 graphics setup and a Turtle Beach Montego PCI A3D sound card it'll beat the stew out of any game console on the market and certainly most of the arcade systems. But most people have something similar to a pentium 200 with 32 megs of ram and maybe a modest 3D accelerator card. Consoles allow you to get top-notch graphics capability for a low cost. That is why consoles will always be around. 'Darco