It's long been the debate that with consoles costing roughly one-fifth the money of a PC, that once they became powerful enough, consoles would start to erode the PC gaming market.

As the article at C|Net explores, it's not quite that cut and dry. The long and short of it is, consoles are better suited to short bites of gaming, while long, drawn-out epics are better on PCs. Racing on consoles, sims on PCs.

It's a debate that happens every generation, and the answer is pretty much the same. Analysts over-analyze (go figure) the situation, and proclaim the death of PC gaming. There will always be room for PCs in the game industry, even if the business is better on the Console side.

However, it's starting to become a closer battle. Just when it looks like consoles could finally be powerful enough to punch a hold in the PC game market, PC costs drop tremdously. You can get a cheap 600MHz Celeron machine for $300 now, with a little hunting.

So again, the market is still close, and each machine is still better suited for different game types. The more things change, the more things stay the same.