[dogscoff]

Feh... A few years from now there will be very little distinction between a home PC and a
console anyway. Just as the gap between your palmtop and your phone is narrowing, and the gap between your phone and your digicamera, and your camera / portable data storage, and your portable data storage / mobile mp3 player...

"Serious" PCs (for commercial and industrial use) will remain a seperate market but as the average power of the hardware continues to outstrip the actual requirements of all but the most demanding user, any home machine will be able to take on the role of any other with ease. Also, all the hardware in your house will be automatically wirelessly networking together, sharing resources, whispering behind your back and secretly perverting your next-generation intelligent kitchen appliances, which will completely obsfucate any remaining distinction between the platforms anyway.

10 years from now your copy of SEVII will follow you from TV to microwave as you walk around the house, and when your fleet runs out of organics the fridge will automatically order you a pizza. The Blob is coming! You have been warned...