1: if you want to re-sell the game, this is indeed not possible, and it sucks. If you have an old game then there will be cracks and fixes. If the company stopped offering support or went bankrupt then you have every right to circumvent their DRM. Who said windows? WINE plays a lot of games fine. And with desktop virtualization, you just need to have your old copy of windows around and load it up inside your actual OS. The virtualization gets rid of OS updates, malware, driver bugs and stuff too. 2: go buy a pc for $300, set it up, and install crysis. If you're an idiot and set the graphical options to maximum, then yes, it doesn't work. Then again you can just make it go down and have the game fully functional. This way you will be able to play the game again later with a completely different experience, thus making replayability. 3: Bullshit. I have a motherboard with a decent integrated audio card. I have a non-integrated graphics card. I can do whatever i want - try composing or editing music on a console. Try making 3D models on a console. Yes, PC's are general purpouse. But they are simply better for the things consoles can, because you can upgrade later. If you run an xbox game on an xbox360, can/does anything change? Nope. It does if you always use low-cost hardware for PC's.

who would suffer more? Obviously microsoft. The EU may have it hard, but they don't lose income.

Microsoft on the other hand, loses a serious part of its market. Either they will have to charge the others more or go and use their cash reserves - neither of wich is a good thing to them.

If it's UK only, then it still isn't worth much - it just means america AND uk have an online shop with good prices.

considering all the sale blastst they get when they do a weekend sale, i really wonder why they don't lower the price of older games.

perhaps these prices are so low, but that's America. Over here in europe, we are forced to cash out 60+ euros if you want to buy a brand new game. Oh and one year later, the price will still be the same.

over here, steam just sin't a viable solution. You can get a game for €10 in a retail shop, but on steam it'll still cost you €50 or more.

the ribbon interface was a major hit for ms office, i think. It's the thing that made me switch...

I've used the ribbon interface, and it's crap. Give the menu's that don't hide all the features behind unecessary bling, and you've got a good program.

Well then, a remote can usually be found for a decent price. If you want something good, turn to logetech, they always work with apple. They're a bit expensive tough.

you can connect a mouse, yes. Then you can go look for a surface to put it on. Consoles are nearly always hooked up to TV's, so it often won't work.

Other then that, pc games have something called an options menu. It lets you choose resolution and how much details you want to see.

As a last resort, there is of course the possibility of a small upgrade, with graphics cards these days being good enough for a low price. 50$ should get a good enough graphics card. Eve just doesn't require much.

Oh really? I think a simple alt-tab would do better, without paying for a console. If you can't/don't want to do that, get a second monitor and run both games windowed. Problem solved for under 100$ or free if you already have 2 monitors.

A console is not even equipped for decent FPS games. Nothing beats the accuracy of a good gaming mouse, and even if you buy some cheap-ass mouse you'll still be more accurate then a little thumbstick.

"rapidly" is not exactly a precise amount. What if they mean 10 dB every 10 meters? Also, this device is made for crowd control. Sooner or later it will get used at close range, either by accident or because some idiot tought it was a good idea.

only 150 dB? that's plenty to cause irreversable damage.

i only recently bought halo 1 for pc (i ran a pirate version before that) and i had to pay â15. Halo for pc was released in what, 2002? 7 years, still not â5.

huh? Over here, it doesn't matter what you buy it for - the biggest price difference i've seen lately is â5, and that was in favour of the consoles rather then pc.

the average, casual gamer can run a new game on an older computer, except it won't have as much bling to it. Console has no settings at all, but what they produce is often less then what a high-end pc shows on the screen.

Now if only microsoft and others stopped forcing people to buy their other products, then a lot of the reasons to have an xbox 360 would vanish. If they where properly implemented on pc, a 5 year old pc should run it, albeit at low settings. As for sp3, the usual reason is staying away from the RROD or getting one of the few ps3-only titles.

Actually, it didn't break.... it fell out,but i guess the water broke its fall. Who knows what made it so weak against pressure.