HijacK: The thing people don't take in consideration when they think about consoles is the support, at least game-wise, that comes from the companies behind the console. Sure, Microsoft might not be a good example, but Sony began to have more and more exclusives since their decline at the beginning of the 7th generation. Nintendo had almost the entirety of its Wii library exclusive, and while more than half of it may be mediocre, there are more than enough high quality games. Hopefully the Wii U will get a better treatment when it comes to the quality of the exclusives. As far as graphics go. I don't play video games for pretty pictures. I play them for the stories, gameplay, worlds/universes, and the lore and adventures they offer.
Yeah, exclusives combined with the emergence of 3+ main players in the console market (after the SNES/Sega Genesis era) was the initial reason why I fully immersed myself in PC gaming and didn't look back.
Even back then, the idea of having to buy several devices to play games felt wrong on a very fundamental level.
Guess that makes me an activist first and a gamer second since I'm not willing to accept games unconditionally, no matter how they are distributed.
