One thing which is nice is that consoles sort of stall development a bit for the PC games market. PCs are evolving all the time continously - a new graphics card comes out, you can decide to buy more ram or get a new motherboard with space for more processors - you know. An XBOX 360 is an XBOX 360 and making games for it now is under the same hardware constraints as it was when it was released.
In 2004, I bought a new computer, absolutely top of the line with the most expensive graphics card I could find, etc. etc. It didn't last more than a couple of years or so before the latest games became just too much for the poor thing.
Now I still got my top-o-the-line computer from 2007 and I've no problem whatsoever playing the games that come out today. In fact, I think the most demanding game I've tried so far is Crysis which I got just when the computer was new .. Crysis is a PC game only, of course.
