[whynaut]

why would a console last 3 years (barring failure obv.)? Typical generation is 5-7 years.

[Grimm1]

Generation yes but I don't remember a whole lot of fidelity updates occurring to my xbox 360 or my xbox one past the first couple years is what I was trying to say. Where as my NVIDIA cards get regular tweaks and improvements for much longer. I'm mainly a PC gamer though so I could be wrong here.

[pjmlp]

Game developers love consoles, because the hardware is known for the whole generation.

Whatever tricks your NVidia card can pull, aren't reflected on someone's else GPU card, let alone everything else on the computer.

[Grimm1]

I don't know if I care what game developers like, I do care what's better for consumers like myself though. Unless you're saying that devs being able to pull more tricks result in either better graphical fidelity or performance for the consumer, otherwise I don't really think what you said contradicts my point.

[pjmlp]

Anyone is free to chose what they think is best for themselves, game consoles culture is not the same as PCs.

Additionally, game development culture is definitely not in line with the FOSS culture that is usually discussed in sites like HN.