> Games are a different story - this is what is driving the so-called
> "upgrades" in hardware and software. The truth is, however, that the new
> games are no better than older games as far as gaming strategies are
> concerned, they are just more flashy.
Very true, PCs are still important as development tools, but they're dreadful as mass gaming devices -- too damn expensive, prone to breakage, require endless updates, etc. Videogame consoles running some variant of open source code are really the only way to go.
-- DRR