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[Icewolf]

Recently a good friend of mine, who used to be a big time overclocker and modder, said when I asked him, when we can hang out and gamble the next time:
"Gambling on the PC is an expensive thing. I won't spend 300€ for graphic cards no more, I just play consoles by now.(WII and XBOX in his case)."

And that's exactly the point. The only games-genres that can score agains console-games are FPS and sims (SimCity or similar). And the FPS are requiring exactly these expensive GraCas and loads of RAM and Dual-Core and stuff whereas the all good sims already have been produced and don't need expensive hardware.

I know that this is a rather drastic view, but like they say:
"Representativeness by exaggregation!"