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Originally Posted by Speedyer
Its so much more with Windows Media Center, or Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate edition (Of course technically, you don't even need a TV anymore. Though TV tuners haven't gotten there quiet last time I checked). Only real problem with the Xbox 360 is that you could treat it perfectly, make sure it gets enough air and etc while you beat the crap out of your PS2 due to them tripping cords and if you just have bad odds the thing will die on you. Of course it isn't about the hardware, its about the games after all which is why you might seriously want to buy a 360 over a PS3 with its nonexistence failure rate as so far.
Anyway, point is, consoles are a pain in the ass. Especially when all you really want is to play the games (not that anyone has any time for that. Beh). I'd love to see them try to put Crysis for example on a console. Hah. Of course consoles are so much easier for game makers to control, and make a profit off of. As people would have to buy the game (unless your up for some risky hardware modification that may brick your system sometime in the future with a new update), while with a PC its really easy to pirate the game it self which is why for example Crytek games is suffering at the moment despite offering a great game (or so I'm told, damn old ass computer).
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Pirating games would be easy enough to stop. I've never understood why game vendors don't do it. Ship each software version with a unique USB key that contains an encrypted string allowing the game to run. The executable for the game reads the USB port and if it doesn't see the key or it sees the wrong key, it doesn't start. No registry hacking, no man-in-the-middle schemes, no fuss, no muss. In fact, my company is an OEM that sells expensive hardware/software setups, and this is what we use to enable/disable software features. If it didn't work, we'd potentially lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Edit: Well, I guess I do see it. It might put people off of buying the game in the first place. But, I wouldn't think it would put off as many users as it would save them in piracy.