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PC hardware requires frequent upgrades compared to the game console, who would want to upgrade their hardware just to play a new high end game ?

Gamers want a change from the same old single/third person shooting/killing games.

The gamers community has evolved , as in the gaming community no more comprises of geeks ! people dont wanna spend hours to understand how to play the game, but rather want to ease out their hectic life with fun to play games. Thats were  Nintendo WII has captured a huge market share recently.

With introduction of handheld,consoles, more of the world is mobile ( imagine packing up your PC when you visit your friend or family

Life can be a drag watching someone play single person game on a PC, and you staring at the monitor, with consoles and internet gaming ,you can actually jump into the action.Thats were these online gaming websites are churning out huge revenues.

Consoles are easier to upgrade compared to PC and consoles have a shelf life of minimum of 3-4 years compared to 1-2 years of PC.

The total market for online games will double between 2004 and 2007

Pay-per-play gaming is expected to grow at a compound rate of 40% between now and 2007

Browser and browser plug-in online games

Adobe Flash stands tall in online browser gaming when it somes to 2/2.5 d games ( makes use of flash player and Flash authoring )

Java based games ( though very slow compared to flash )

Adobe Shockwave games ( makes use of Adobe Shockwave player and Director Authoring Application )

Other scripting languages php,perl,python, javascript etc making use of Opengl as the underlying core rendering API.