Not everyone has access to a good computer. Now a days a good computer means lots of money, complicated systems, and extra parts just to have a minimum requirment performance.
Getting a very good computer with Web access, a hard drive many times the size of a console, a good video card, more RAM than any console, and the ability to do dozens of other tasks, costs as little as many consoles. This isn't speculation. Go price the latest Xbox vs a decent PC. I don't know what you mean by "extra parts." I've got a basics--no fancy parts--computer, and I've got 1 GB RAM, 3 gHz CPU, and a decent video card. I can play just about anything under the sun with excellent results, but I can also copy my CD collection, watch DVDs, use Word and Excel, write and receive emails, and visit websites like this one.
With a console all the games they make have great performance on every console the only thing different between them is a person can get performance parts for them, but they dont need to.
Many console games have been criticized by respected reviewers for poor and sluggish performance. Nor can the games played on one, be necessarily played onanother.
Controls for a computer are so difficult to remember, i mean there is so many different buttons with so many different actions i have to have the control manuel beside me. (exaduration)
Console controls are simple and easy to remember they because they have so little buttons they have to fit all the actions in the buttons which makes it kinda easy to use.
Controls for the PC are simple--what, you mean you have problems with a standard keyboard?
Ever compare KotoR 1 for the PC and the Xbox? You had to use 6 or 7 buttons to do all the work and remember the multiple functions for each: now *that* was a nuisance. By contrast, there was an appropriate key for every PC screen: I for Inventory, etc. Simple, one click to get to, as opposed to as many as 6 or 7 clicks of a button on the Xbox.
Bottomline, online play combined with the KOTOR series would be more then interesting and would solve alot of arguments.
But you haven't addressed any of the reasons why online KotoR would be interesting, much less mentioned even a single argument this would solve.
You've instead been PC-bashing, which was what caused my response. And your PC-bashing was factually incorrect, whether one likes the PC, or not.
Personally, I can't see part of the KotoR series online, unless they simply stick the name on an online game. The genres are too different: standalone RPGs are plot driven and tightly controlled, while multiplayer games (and I was a DM for 4 years for a popular for-pay MMORPG) are inherently formless and not goal driven, save that some players enjoy the leveling up. Compare the Ultima series with Ultima Online: two completely different experiences. Understand, I would have no objections to an online game set in the KotoR universe; I wouldn't play it, but obviously, you (and some others) would, if it were done well. But making it a hybrid, singleplayer/mulitplayer game would be a coding nightmare and certain death after release.