JT,
I think you misunderstood my statement about dumb kids with bottomless pockets. 😉
My point was, if the kid only has an X-Station or PlayBox or whatever they call them these days, and the game is only available for the PC, most likely that kid won’t buy it. After all, PCs are for MySpace and InstantMessenger, not playing games, haha. Which is why the game companies focus on the consoles and would freak out if a designer told them ‘this will only work on one platform’
the Sega Dreamcast seemed promising, with its keyboard and network adapter. But everyone has their own theory as to why that console failed. (Which, it didn’t really ‘fail’….)
-Tom.