PS4 Revealed

[the dark side]

beleive it or not, i own a fair few consoles...yes, i started on PC, an IBM with a 486 processor back When they were top of the line, and as you know, i am a PC elitist, ..but.. i am also more of a Gameplay elitist than i am a PC elitist, if a game had the sort of gameplay i like, and Wasnt on PC, i used to go for the consoles of the past, but ive tailed off these days thanks to all this DLC and DRM malarky on those systems.

ive collected, console wise, over the years, a NES, a SNES, An MSX! a Panasonic 3do, a Mastersystem II, a Gensis (megadrive in the uK) a saturn, an N64 (greatest console ever made.. couple of its games, such as GE64, even changed PC gaming for the better with there influence) a ps1, a ps2, a gamecube, a dreamcast, an original xbox, and a 360 (for forza motosports, i only have two games on it, Forza Motorsports 2 and Forza Motorsports 3, in "complete" forms, all the DLC on the disk, sadly MS arent doing one for Forza 4, so, sod them, i only purchase "complete" versions of games as i refuste to buy DLC as i refuse to be Fleeced) i used to have a ps3, but it packed up after 12 months and seeing as i only had GT5-Proloque on it,.. i decided not to bether replacing it. im pretty agnry at ps3 packing in after only 12 months... my NES is a good 20 years old, and it Still works as good as it did when new.

but PC will always be my spiritual gaming home, ive even had this one recently Re-jigged from duality OS to Triple OS, it now has 7, Xp and win-95 with ORIGINAL DOS. so i can play my entire physical collection of pC Games, from Wolf 3d (on floppy disk!, so ive had a floppy drive fitted) all the way to SSIII BFE... thats a lot of games, beleive me, and i still have the boxes & manuals!

As for steam box, well, ill take a look at it, im quite a fan of Gabe Newell and Valve, he is something of a gameplay elitist too, and he knows a thing or 2 about bang for buck, and valve supports the indie industry via steam, sure, steambox may be a console, but, if it allows Proper, Single Player (Including Single Player Only games), PC gaming with a keyboard and mouse, and the DRM doesnt require "always on" and allows for "game trading", ,thus allowing proper Pc games with fair protection rules, to be played in the warmth of the living room on a massive TV.... i may even put my PC bias to one side... anyone imagine it, a GOG.com upgrade of say, Duke 3d on a 100 inch plasma? sighn me up!