PC fanboys
The background:
There are obvious benefits. You get a keyboard and mouse, which instantly makes it easier to play FPS games with the sort of terrifying precision that’s impossible on a joypad. The online service is pretty much completely free. It’s miles better if you want to play historical strategy games. And, of course, there’s a ton of software available for nothing made available by charitable amateurs. But there’s much more to playing on PC than simply spending your entire life gangkilling noobs in World Of Warcraft, and if you’ve got the money to spend you’ll be able to get a machine that dwarfs anything else on the market…
Big Screen, Main Screen
It pisses in the consoles’ eyes in terms of power
You’ve probably heard a lot about PS3’s multiple cores, but it’s something that’s even more important on PC. Until recently, developers have been taking advantage of faster processors, but with overheating suddenly a concern, chip makers are adding multiple cores running at slower speeds. Games like Warcraft and Battlefield have dealt with this with patches so far, but now developers are starting to get the hang of coding for multi-core PS2s, they’re set to leap past what even the PS3 can do…It’s already got the friendliest chat-space
Sony’s home bears an uncanny resemblance to Linden Labs’ Second Life, except that the latter’s already got 8.9 million registered users and its own gigantic world full of often free user-created content. Also, it’s unclear as yet what kind of restrictions Sony will be placing on content and costumes created for home, but it’s almost a dead cert that you won’t be able to ride a sex-horse.You can see Lara naked
An army of helpful, artistic perverts mean you can find mods that’ll let you dress Ms Croft in everything from tiger fur to her birthday suit, at no cost. And while console owners will have to wait until April to see the Statue Of Liberty in GTA, PC owners have had the big green lady in their game since 2003, courtesy of the RealGTA mod.John Carmack likes them
Even though the iD supremo’s working on Rage for PS3, he says of next-gen consoles that: “They can quote these incredibly high numbers of giga-flops or tera-flops or whatever, but in reality, when you do a straightforward development process on them, they’re significantly slower than a modern high-end PC.”
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