What I wonder is what advantage does computer gaming now have? Computers have always have had graphics advantage. Not that I think gaming on computers is going to go away anytime soon. If people aren't buying graphics cards how is this going to affect the development of computers. Video games kind of have been a driving force in development of graphics.

I heard the Cell processor for PS3 will be 3.2 megahertz. That's ruffly 3 times the power of the computer I'm tying this on. Plus some of the things about it such as the 8 cores, and the security on the chip. So maybe that will spill over to the pc market.

I heard 4.6 GHz.

Anyways, I can give you up to 64 reasons why consoles will never take away from computers since on a PS3 you can never scale up the number of cpus or hds and someday. The current highest edition of Server 2003 supports up to 64 processors and windows xp pro supports up 4.

This may come in handy to give the extra teraflop or two needed to render Gran Turiso XIII.

Just a small addition to what has been said above (not meant as insult to anyone who posted here):

The idea of downloadable content was not of Microsoft. But they'll most likely be capable of making it reality.

The first console which offered that sort of downloads was the Sega Genesis. They had a test project running - the "Sega Channel". Downloading games and demos was possible via TV and Modem (I think).

The idea most likely has been there before, I don't know.
The first console featuring online gaming was Dreamcast. Many people don't know...
Surfing the WWW with a console was possible with the netlink package for Sega Saturn, but it was not very widely spread. I think it was US only. Not sure if that was the first console with online capabilities..?

I think you are talking about the XBAND Network, which came out for the SNES and Genesis. If you look back even further, I think you will find something similar for the NES and the Atari 2600.

But lets stay on-topic.

Did XBAND work online (with actual servers)? I always thought it was a direct connection via the phone line? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here we never got such things. We only heard what is available in the US and in Japan.

About porting the 3dgs runtime to Xbox. Xbox uses DX 8.1 . Almost all functions from the DX 8.1 SDK is in the Xbox XDK. Porting a DX 8 / 8.1 game to Xbox is not that much work as many think, all that has to be considered is hardware limitations. Since A6 6.2 use DX8 that would be the best bet for Xbox.
But to be honest I seriously doubt that a xbox 3dgs runtime will ever be made.

And if any of you wonder. Yes I have tried the Xbox XDK

Yes, porting a 3DGS game from PC to XBox is more of a licensing issue than technical.

So if someone did create a game that they wanted on xbox, would it be all that hard too port it too xbox?

Also, this is slightly off topic, but too bad sony couldn't get together with apple, or some other microsoft's competitors.