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I'll accept Xbox 360 as a "console" if it intergrates it's impressive pc like specs seemlessly into the gaming experience.

The only thing that ever made "console" gaming, different to "pc gaming", was the whole simplicity of the task.

Compared to a PC, you simply place the game in the drive and switch on, wallah, no driver installations, no updates, and best of all, the games are optimized so much, no crashs!

When was the last time your PS1 crashed on you?

I bet you it was hard ever.

Only if the games were scratched, "then" the game starts acting abnormally, and sometimes crashed, and most of the time, the scratchs are user made!

(At least in the case of a console non-ps2 related )

The problem with todays and indeed, i believe future consoles, is that so much advanced technology is going into these "consoles", that the technology isn't being 100% intergrated properly, and the games are not being 100% optimized to the technology installed.

A great example of this is the GameCube, the GameCube usings an ATI RADEON graphics card as it's main graphics engine, a pc related card i'm sure everyone is aware, now if you play a graphically demanding game such as "Metroid Prime".

Every so often during game play, the game will crash and give you an error message very similar to what you would see on your pc, informing you, the graphics card has bacially crashed, i mean, cmon, what a joke, this is suppose to be a games console here, not a pc!

GTA Vice City for PS2 is another great example, "but is more related to the mechanics of CD spinning", i've gone through 2 discs of that game, simply because the PS2 by default, LOVES to scratch up cds to the point that the game skips and crashs out with a lovely "error message".

My point is, if the next generation "consoles" do their job with complete simplicity and complete stability that matchs the stability and simplicity of the older first generation consoles, then no matter the specs, i will welcome them to the "console" world, but if it comes to the point that game play is effected on a regular basis due to the fact that there's too much technology, not enough optimization, then there's a problem, if that becomes the case, these so called "consoles" ain't "consoles", they are now "PCS".