[SJSAMPLE]

I'm not sure you understood me, especially the second sentence:

Very few PC users, except gamers, want to chase upgrades

Sure, nobody wants to have buy a new machine, but they prefer it over upgrades and the increases in processor, memory and storage have consistently driven these purchases. Moving data and reconfiguring has become much, MUCH more simple since USB came along.

I ditched my PC-gaming for consoles and haven't looked back, except for CandC and other simulation and strategy games.

[jeffc]

Sorry. I focused on the "replace" etc. And still, us PC gamers do not like having to upgrade. That is very different from doing an upgrade when we want to (and not when we have to).

I think consoles will be able to do good simulations very soon. Now if they just had decent programmers who could write a game in-depth enough to last more than a couple of weeks, LOL!