Will consoles turn into PCs?

Pc gaming is dying and console okes should incorporate mouse and keyboard and that may signal the end for pc's.
 
killadoob said:
If they add a mouse and keyboard most gamers may not even have the need for a computer.

How is it not relevant?
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Well First The topic is if consoles will turn into PCs, not if they will destroy PCs
But To answer your question
Can You type documents on a console?
Can you mod games on console?
Can you program?
Can you print on a console?
Can you multitask on a console?
That's just off the top of my head, and note nether console has propur media support

But yet again thats not the topic
 
Looking at the Xbox360 and PS3 when they came out they had all these nice features..... all the features that PCs had for ever, but none the less (this isn't that kind of thread) and with each update software/firmware update they get more and more PC functionality, Now consider how technology as evolved to put more things in one device (your cellphone for example) to in a way, a PC is what almost every piece of technology strives to be.
SO what do you think? In the future will your console be your PC and your PC be your console?

In the future will your console be your PC and your PC be your console?

Makes no sense to me, you are asking if your console and pc will swap rolls which is just odd. I cannot see how a console will ever run your life like a pc does. Firstly sony has interests in computers remaining computers and microsoft have an interest in windows being sold on computers and that is the reason there is no mouse and keyboard i think, they want you to buy both.

Maybe nintendo will bring out a console that is a pc and maybe then the console will become a pc :D or something confusing like that.
 
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Ok I see your point now killer, your looking quite deep into the topic
 
well, your statement that your console could become your pc makes sense, but a pc becoming your console is stupid because a pc can and do more than a console.
 
PC's will rule for budget and techies :) but consoles will remain for that "FUN" factor and ease of use factor, one think i like on consoles is never having too look on the back for the specs
 
Consoles are just standardised PC's with limited functionality to reduce the effort required to play games and to remove the requirement to have technical expertise and to make troubleshooting easier.

For instance I have dragon age origins on the pc and at some moments the blood is just red squares. Also I'm getting a lot of c++ runtime errors.
Now I'm stuck with an isolated case that would take me a very long to solve if I'd ever solve it, because of my unique computer hardware/software configuarion.

Much easier to troubleshoot something that's standard and alot more fun if you don't have to.
 
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wow4life said:
Consoles are purpose built for a purpose and will be better at what they do comparative to a similarly priced pc.
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You can build an E5200/HD4850 PC for cheaper than a PS3 which will play games at higher resolutions and settings. The only thing the PS3 has in it's favour is a blu-ray player but that is not needed for gaming.
Not to mentions, PC games are also a lot cheaper so you're saving about R200-R300 on each game.
 
i feel it's more like laptops replacing pc's, and consoles will be for gaming, while laptops and netbooks for internet.
 
shamanic aphex said:
i feel it's more like laptops replacing pc's, and consoles will be for gaming, while laptops and netbooks for internet.
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Laptops can handle games don't you worry at a price of course. Yeah sure netbooks internet users.
There will always be a pc gaming market and console market.
Also how many people own more then one console?


Won't go into prices again but yeah, the fanboy's make me laugh.
 
I don't think console will ever take the place of a pc.
If the next generation (or the one after that) supports word proccesing and spreadsheats,
ie, the stuff that you do on a pc, it would become a Personal Computer, just one manufactured by Sony or Microsoft, with standardized hardware.
It will become competition for Apple Macs.
 
CrAzYLeGs69 said:
well, your statement that your console could become your pc makes sense, but a pc becoming your console is stupid because a pc can and do more than a console.
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No I didn't mean PC become console, I meaent one and the same, as in ""This is that and that is this"

wpswar006 I think that will happen to
 
wpswart006 said:
I don't think console will ever take the place of a pc.
If the next generation (or the one after that) supports word proccesing and spreadsheats,
ie, the stuff that you do on a pc, it would become a Personal Computer, just one manufactured by Sony or Microsoft, with standardized hardware.
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Well the PS3 had that potential, pity about the low 256MB ram though. Still very doable with linux and openbox (or similar) window manager.
 
ponder said:
Well the PS3 had that potential, pity about the low 256MB ram though. Still very doable with linux and openbox (or similar) window manager.
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Please do not compare the computer organisation of a desktop with a console. While they share similar architecture, the final organisation is different. 256MB on PowerPC architecture is way different to 256MB on INTEL architecture.

People freak out when they hear that a PowerPC cell on a PS3 only accesses 256Kb at a time. The difference is what it does with it. Its also the reason why military and academic systems are being built using clustered PS3 consoles.

Go do the Computer Organisation & Architecture module at UNISA (or any other Uni) and you will understand and appreciate the difference.
 
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cbrunsdonza said:
Please do not compare the computer organisation of a desktop with a console. While they share similar architecture, the final organisation is different. 256MB on PowerPC architecture is way different to 256MB on INTEL architecture.

People freak out when they hear that a PowerPC cell on a PS3 only accesses 256Kb at a time. The difference is what it does with it. Its also the reason why military and academic systems are being built using clustered PS3 consoles.

Go do the Computer Organisation & Architecture module at UNISA (or any other Uni) and you will understand and appreciate the difference.
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Try and run a full ubuntu on a PS3 and you will know what others & myself mean. You run out of ram, it's a reality, not something I'm making up.

Those clusters are not ram intensive but 'gpu' (if i could call it that) intensive.

With your reasoning all cell or powerpc based pc's require a fraction of the ram required by an x86 box, I honestly don't recall this being the case with the older macs or the newer ibm servers etc.

I could care less what your unisa text books tough you, this is the real world. I would like to take a swipe at you for that last comment but I know better.
 
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SaiyanZ said:
You can build an E5200/HD4850 PC for cheaper than a PS3 which will play games at higher resolutions and settings. The only thing the PS3 has in it's favour is a blu-ray player but that is not needed for gaming.
Not to mentions, PC games are also a lot cheaper so you're saving about R200-R300 on each game.
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And what do upgrades cost every 2 years? Would R200-R300 per game be such a huge saving if you take the upgrade costs into account, or would you still be running at a loss? And how many purchases per year are we talking?
 
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