Consoles are not really holding the PC market back. Apart from fancier graphics, the big areas where the PC wins is fast mass storage[1] and fewer restrictions

Consoles are not really holding the PC market back. Apart from fancier graphics, the big areas where the PC wins is fast mass storage[1] and fewer restrictions over net access[2]. Sure we could fill 4GB of memory somehow and find interesting ways to saturate as many CPU cores as we're given, but PC games so far haven't done anything really interesting with the extra power they have. [1] Data for a 360 game needs to fit on and run from one or more DVD; the PS3's larger blu-ray storage is slow. Cross-platform console games need to deal with those two constraints. [2] MMOs and social gaming are restricted on consoles.