Lets wait and see huh? :) Remember before the last launch when the cell would end the PC, cure cancer and bring world peace? blue_hazy_basic

That was just fanboy hype stated by people who could think no further than "OMG PLAYSTATION IS THE AWSOMEST EVAH!!!!". Every fanboy of a PC or a console always hail whats new as the end of everything every time.

I will trust carmack though. He may not make the best games anymore but he is a hardware and especially software master. Jesus I tore apart the code for doom3 and Id never seen coding so insanely organized and detailed in my life. If there is one person who knows how gaming truly works from behind the scenes its him considering he has designed games, designed engines, worked as a developer and been in the business since it first really got going its him.

But in the way it works a console is vastly superior for gaming because it is what it is designed to do. PC are more powerful but their architecture is an open platform designed to do as much as possible thus a lot of it is wasted and under utilized when it comes to gaming. Thats why you need so much power to run a game is because of the PC terrible inefficiency. Diablo 3 for instance has minimum specs to run properly with 1gb of ram, pentium d 2.8ghz cpu, and geforce 7800 while the PS3 version coming soon runs on far far less than those minimum pc specs. Now granted it wont look quite as pretty, but it wont be much different than the PC version with those specs and a mid range resolution. Current gen consoles can play games with good results on their very weak hardware while getting the same results on a PC require a lot more hardware.