PC gaming is famous for obsolete hardware and significant, regular upgrade costs as gamers struggle expensively to match the latest graphical advancements. According to PC developer Futuremark, however, console gamers are rapidly catching up, with hardware obsolescence no longer a problem for computers only.
“There’s some irony here in that consoles are now being threatened with the same sort of hardware obsolescence and upgrade cost issues as the PC was previously,” says producer Jaakko Haapasalo. It’s evident he is talking about projects like Project Natal and the Sony Wiimote, as this generation heads toward building on the 360 and PS3 rather than replacing it.
Of course, the thing with Natal and the Sony Wiimote is that these upgrades will cost a fraction of what PC gamers need to spend on new graphics cards. PCs cost thousands of dollars outright, and then you need to constantly keep them maintained. Until new graphics cards stop costing the same as a full home console, I don’t think it’s fair at all to compare PCs and consoles in this way.
Consoles suffering same ‘hardware obsolescence’ as PC [CVG]
