Nvidia Says PC Game Sales Will Surpass Console Game Sales By 2014

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"The main problem is that consoles have a massive lack in graphical power. When the Xbox 360 was first released graphics cards of the time were already around 40% more powerful, now current gpu's are around 10X more powerful than console's"

A counter-argument, saying DirectX slows down the performance of a graphics card by up to 10X, which would pretty much nullify the hypothetical gain of PC hardware over consoles:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/16/farewel...

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