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I've spent far too long just endlessly refreshing the thread to see what T-12 posts whilst coming up with a post of my own... Suggesting that PC gamers have anything to be thankful to the existence of consoles for is just the most bizarre and ignorant thing I've heard on these forums. Don't get me wrong, we've had some good games out of this generation, but would they have been better had they been designed for PC in the first place? Hell yes. The PC as a platform has never diminished and is only expanding, it's just that consoles have expanded more. Proof of poor PC sales, please! Poorer than console? Sure (but even then that's because most of the time you hear about console sales vs. PC sales, not PS3 vs. 360 vs. Wii vs. PC sales) but poor in an absolute sense? Nope.
Aaaanyway, on topic: The Piston. I've been thinking about it and I really don't get why they thought they had to go that small. I'd probably be too worried about pulling it off the shelf with the weight of my 360 controller's cable to actually use it. I think it's interesting and telling to note Valve and Xi3's stances on the Piston. Seems like Valve don't want anything to do with it any more, but Xi3 say Valve funded it in the first place. Sounds to me like Valve wanted them to make the definition of a Steambox, Xi3 went too far and made it too expensive, Valve washed their hands of it.
Aaaanyway, on topic: The Piston. I've been thinking about it and I really don't get why they thought they had to go that small. I'd probably be too worried about pulling it off the shelf with the weight of my 360 controller's cable to actually use it. I think it's interesting and telling to note Valve and Xi3's stances on the Piston. Seems like Valve don't want anything to do with it any more, but Xi3 say Valve funded it in the first place. Sounds to me like Valve wanted them to make the definition of a Steambox, Xi3 went too far and made it too expensive, Valve washed their hands of it.