[Lexandro]

I hate to do this but I have to point out that people that game on PCs tend to have systems that far exceed what would be considered "mainstream" a year or two ago. Quad cores have been on the market for some time now, AMD and Intel both have 2nd generation quad core processors on the market. These far exceed the 360 processor capabilites.

In graphics alone, the consoles cant hold a candle to a modern gaming PC. I have the same games for both 360 and PC and while the 360 version will struggle to play above 30fps on my screen, the PC version on my rig will do double that fps. Gears of War/HAWX/Mass Effect all play at much higher resolutions than the upscaled 720p of the 360 and at much better frame rates.

Nvidia themselves stated many months ago they had exceeded the RSX's graphics ability with a "mainstream" desktop card. Other developers have already stated that many PC games simply cant be done for consoles are they are not powerfull enough. Crytek the most vocal of this with its cryengine2. So much so they are making a new engine just for consoles, that is a "lite" version of CE2.


EDIT* Controler wise, a pad does not have the same finese of movement that a flight stick has. Also many flight sticks feature multiples of buttons even on cheaper units. A cheap 50 buck joystick will have a hat switch, throttle control, rudder control, and usually around 10 buttons all of which are much more capable than a joypad. A pad is good but a good stick is far far better.

Also they are not "next gen" anymore, its this generation.