>
> > If that is true than the consoles will outperform most desktop systems
> > sold in 2006
> Game consoles have exceeded desktop performance for a long time,

I *seriously* doubt that, your average Xbox is pushing 320x240 pixels at 30
FPS give or take.
your bottom rung video card is pushing 1024x768 pixels at 40FPS minimum and
doing dynamic lighting and a whole mess of other things better than any
console in terms of graphical quality.

googling a little it seems your current xbox performs roughly just a bit
less than a geforce 4 level
average rule seems to be that whilst a console may have better graphics than
the midrage of PC cards at release a high end PC will as a rule blow the
doors off a console.

> if you
> benchmark
> things like end graphics performance.  For things OTHER than graphics
> and similar,
> most desktop systems aren't CPU-limited anyway.

almost all games when played on a 3Ghz or so (or amd equivilent) computer
are video card limited.

>
> >  (few of which will feature dual CPUs).
> I think you underestimate the number of dual-cpu desktops being
> deployed, too.

well on that we agree

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