Re:Is there a terrible price difference between (Score 1)

I know there is a price difference between the new consoles and PCs. But the question was this:

"Is there a terrible price difference between purchasing a console instead of a PC, particularly when you consider the limited applications of a console, and the expandability and flexibility of a PC?"

I'm guessing what you're saying is, people can see a price difference between a PC and a console, yet don't take into account the far "more" they're getting with a PC, or are simply too poor to afford another PC, or to upgrade their own when it lags behind the times (just as consoles do).

So to understand, console manufacturers are taking computers, making them proprietary by whiddling down things that make it not a PC, passing that hardware savings along to the end users, charging software authors to write and sell things for their hardware, and locking in end users to their and their partner's product offerings.

Whereas console manufacturers would become redundant and game authors could all have a single platform and save their licensing/royalty expensese if PC prices were a little cheaper, or people were willing to pay more for a PC to get more.

I wonder how many people buy thier kids both PC's AND consoles?

I wonder what games might be like if software authors were not so constrained?

I wonder if software authors would make less money if consoles did not exist?

But of course, they do.