Need for Speed Most Wanted

[Joe Forster/STA]

Note that the advantage of a console against a PC and a PC against a console is also its disadvantage, from another point of view.

A console has a fixed set of hardware, therefore, if you own one and develop software for it, you can bet that your software will run exactly the same way on other consoles of the same type. (Perhaps, except for BIOS/firmware changes?) On the other hand, as crypto6600 said, they become obsolete pretty soon because you can't upgrade them.

A PC is upgradable without end but there are so many kinds of hardware parts, operating systems (well, if we talk about Windowses only: even they are quite different from each other!), drivers and other software possibly conflicting with your software, there's simply no way of predicting whether your software will work properly or won't. According to your belief, you can either pray or simply hope it would.

[leezer3]

Very true.
Consoles also have a massive advantage over a PC, as they do not have the overhead for running Windows, and all the little bits such as networking etc. which are not needed for gaming.

Cheers

-Leezer-

[thebluegr]

Originally Posted by leezer3

Very true.
Consoles also have a massive advantage over a PC, as they do not have the overhead for running Windows, and all the little bits such as networking etc. which are not needed for gaming.

Cheers

-Leezer-

Xbox is running a modified version of Windows 2000 and PS2 a Linux distro with a custom made closed source HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)

[WardoggOne]

keep on topic kids!

this is bout NFSMW for PC not a xbox 360 vs ps3 thread.