Actually that is not really the case at all. I gave my kids an old laptop with a mobile ATI GPU. Old meaning I bought it about five years ago. All PC games I have tried work at some level. No you are not going to MAX out the latest PC game with the older hardware, but you can't do that with console hardware either.

I am generalizing here, but I don't think anyone is trying to make firearms illegal. From what I have seen it's assault weapons and certain handguns that are under fire (pun intended).

I guess I shouldn't use the word 'bad'. When I saw Crysis run on the Xbox in person it was draw distance, resolution and framerate that really stood out. More than textures anyway.

"Crysis 1 on the Xbox 360 doesn't look bad at all"

At this rate, that is going to happen in the U.S. in about thirty years. Only 'everyone' meaning most people.....will all be in fucking poverty. Lay off employees because the stock 'only' went up one half a percentage point!!! Our investors are not happy with 10% profit, so let's go overseas and raze the domestic…

Friend me on Steam if you want. My profile name is homernoy. I guess you picked a good time to upgrade your PC. Lot's of powerful parts at what seems to be a bargain compared to last year. Price per performance wise at least.

It won't be long and we will see. I might get a Wii U in a couple of months and wait six months to a year into the next gen console cycle to see which if any I will buy. Maybe when things start hyping up I might get excited enough to buy fairly early in the cycle. Thanks for the response........ better late than never…

A FPS is a 'First Person Shooter'. Portal has a 'first person' perspective, and that is the only thing remotely similar to a FPS. By definition Portal is not a FPS, no matter how you want to spin it with bad analogies.

Ever heard of Portal/Portal 2? Very successful games from Valve, and not FPS.

Back then hardware on the PC was much more fragmented. Also, the original Xbox was standard def.....as in 640 pixels × 480 lines with 4:3 ratio riding on a 24hz refresh rate. I loved the original PlayStation though. I played it so much I ended up having to turn it upside down at the end of it's life to play games.

I think his point is, the likelihood of an internet interruption/power failure during a three hour or more firmware update, is a lot higher than if it was ten or twenty minutes.

The link below the video shows a very, very good PC exclusive game for an example. Steam hacking never amounted to ANYTHING dude. My PS3 was completely off line for a long time. Twice. It was great that Sony offered me some good games as compensation and there are no hard feelings, but it was waaaay worse than the…

It's your GPU I'm afraid. That card was never anything but a lower end video card and even when it was brand new probably couldn't max out a lot of games. Check out the benchmarks for 2009. Not good, even at sub 1080p resolutions. If you invest in a decent GPU you will be soooo much happier. Here is a video I made…

"The GTX 680M is a 100W chip, in a laptop, and that is equivalent to the desktop 670"

No, seriously, you are bent on being an ignoramus. Steam is privately owned, and has no shareholders to answer to. A company like Valve happens very rarely.

I have to agree with you. People with these kind of views, or from any fringe group that are out to hurt the rest of us, are best ignored. Why give attention and free press to people that this? Kotaku should be trying to stop and lessen their impact and reach, yet here on this site you are expanding it. No one here…

I have to say as PC gamer (PS3/Wii as well), Square has done well. Hitman: Absolution looks next gen on a PC and it runs smooooooth as silk.

Do you have a source? I don't think you have any idea how much power it takes to run a GTX 680. Consoles have to keep costs down, and an expensive hot and loud power supply to run such a beast is not in the cards. This isn't even taking into consideration the CPU. Cooling is a major issue as well, and all this in a…

The Serious Sam series is PC only and it has always had split screen.

My big issue is, I would clear out a check point and no one else was around after that. For some reason I would decide to turn around and go back through the checkpoint ten seconds later (literally) and all the people I just killed were standing there shooting at me. That is the big.......huge flaw in that game.