[Andy A.]

There are lots of reasons why games are going to look gorgeous on the 360.

One is that the developer knows exactly the resources at his disposal. He knows exactly what the machine can and can't do and doesn't have to worry about writing code that will work across multiple chip sets, processor instruction sets, ram amounts, and any one of a thousand variables that PC's have. It gives the development team more time to focus on artwork and less on the mechanics of just getting it to run on enough PCs to make it worth while. Beta testing is a lot less of a hassle to. And we all know that 3 years from now, will we still be able to play every 360 title just coming out with out any upgrades and it'll look just the way it's intended to.

The hardware is no slouch either. Not only is it as capable as a zippy PC is today, thats all it has to do. It just has to excel at playing games. A console gets to do one thing and that lets it do it extremal well.

And, it'll be cheaper.

Way cheaper.

Right now, you still couldn't get the same graphics performance out of a PC that you can from a xbox for the same price. Just not possible. I'm not saying that a PC isn't worth it, but it's real hard to justify SLI for anything but gaming. The cost of a decent SLI setup (motherboard and two strong video cards), would easily cost hundreds more then the 360. It probably will stay that way for a while to.

To a lot of people, including me who is a big computer geek, it's hard to argue against that kind of longevity and cost effectiveness. I probably won't buy one, since I have yet to exhaust the fun of my xbox, but I don't think that PC's completely eclipse the console. In fact, if all you care about is gaming, then the 360 makes a lot more sense then a PC. Of course, theres more to the equation that makes a PC worthwhile, but I don't think graphics is a good argument to make for a PC in the PC vs Console debate.

-Andy A.