I’m a PC gaming fanboi. I’ve owned three consoles in my life: the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sega Saturn, and the Nintendo 64. No PS2, no Sega Dreamcast. I have my fair share of handheld systems (original Game Boy, Game Gear, and Atari Lynx). But with my N64 I had already began to experience the wonderful life of PC gaming. Since I’ve been gaming, video editing, photo manipulating, and audio mixing on a PC for a decade, I can honestly say that I am not impressed by this new breed of “high definition” gaming that these new consoles have brought. 720p? 1080p? Those are some nifty terms for display resolutions. Luckily, that translates to screen resolutions of 1280×720 and 1920×1080 respectively, for those who don’t know what those terms really mean.

Now go out an ask any PC gamer or PC user who does any sort of graphics what they think of these new “HD” consoles. They’ll probably laugh in your face. Why? Because these resolutions have been natively run on PCs for years. I’ve been using 1280×1024 resolution for a good 6 years already, and thats for gaming and normal desktop resolution.

The PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 are scamming people by claiming that they’re pioneering the way in realism with high definition. What really matters is the video card and dedicated power that the machine can juice out for a game, not the resolution. Sure, the PS3 and the 360 seem godly, but isn’t it funny how these new consoles are more similar to PCs in structure and architecture than any console has ever been? The gap is getting smaller, so what gives? Why are developers straying away from PC gaming when in fact they’re making their consoles more and more PC-like. Why boast hi-def when in fact they’ve been working with resolutions far above 1080p for years? Grab a barebones system, toss on a Quadro FX 5500 1GB video card, toss on about 4GB of RAM, and get DX10, and you just made yourself a PS3 eater when it comes to gaming (especially if you use the new Crysis engine). I understand that there’s a huge marketing scheme out there to get consumers to do everything from their fingertips, but from their living room couch, but come on. Boasting HD as some new revolutionary technology in gaming is lame. Come on game devs, throw the PC gaming industry some bones here.