PCs going the way of the consoles?

Really, Spong is probably the last place on earth to look for solid news, but they do have remarkable rumours and such (together with CVG they nicely provide the gaming industry with a tabloid-sector). The newest news to be added is that Half-Life 2 might be an Nvidia-exclusive.

Munch on that for a sec…

Yes, in the future you might need two seperate videocards to be able to run all PC-software. Initially I didn't see the problem, after all consoles have pretty much lived with this kind of thing for years now, but in the case of PCs things are turning ugly. It might promote optimization for videocards (which is good since most PC-games lack that in general) but the fact of even expanding more into the hardware-side is not (part of the PC charm was that games 'got better' if you bought better equipment).

It might even become more absurd; imaging PC-gaming freaks having multiple PCs;
"That one's to play my MMORPG's, that one's for Unreal IV. And this little baby is reserved for Duke Nukem Forever." Having multiple consoles is already frowned upon in general, but having multiple videocards for specific games might introduce a whole new level of geekiness.