Consoles are not holding PC-gaming back. PCs are holding PC gaming back. The truth is, this far into the current generation of consoles, they still provide better gaming technology than what MOST of the PCs currently being used have. While /. users might have awesome rigs with multi-core processors and the latest graphic cards, the HUGE majority of pc owners do not. They have laptops, they have affordable Dell systems, they have computers they bought more than 3 or 4 years ago... they don't have the chops to pull off a game that looks like FFXIII or Heavy Rain. When all your friends are technophiles your sense of how most people live is a little skewed. Not to mention a lot of people just don't want to sit in front of their computer to game- they want to sit on the couch and relax with friends (who also have room to sit and a huge screen to share). There's also an associative nature between PC=work and TV=relax/fun. I just don't want to be near my PC when I want to have fun. I sit in front of a PC all day at work. Leave me alone!

*thows pebble, draws circle in the sand with stick, grunts*

just got back from canada today and i'm pretty sure they (like the rest of the world) don't "wannabe" like the USA. canada, like the rest of the world uses kph, not mph. oh goodness, i fear our country once again is following in England's footsteps; there goes our empire.