Dear Future Gamer,

I've just read your magazine and I'm thinking of unsubscribing. Why? Because of the J Nash column. What percentage of your readers own a PC/Mac? 100 per cent 'cause it's delivered by email. How many readers has J Nash offended?

Every single one of them. He is a moron and I cannot see how he can call that crap journalism. People don't just buy PCs for games. The amount of stuff you can do on a PC is amazing from, on the highest level, designing rockets and making movies, right down to porn and piracy.

Next the PC is superior to every other game platform. Technically it's so fast I can run a PlayStation, N64, SNES and Mega Drive all at the same time (via emulators) and still run Half-Life. The games on the PC are superior to any other games platform. You have Half-Life (try and count the amount of awards it got), Thief: The Dark Project, Shogo:MAD, Unreal, Quake II (which is almost a year old and is only coming to the PlayStation now sans the excellent multiplayer and the best part of the graphics) along with countless others and countless others to come in the shoot 'em up genre alone.

For realtime strategy games it's the best platform. The same goes for sims, RPGs and any other genre you care to mention. The people who play PlayStations are playing with four-year-old technology.

The PlayStation 2 could never oust the PC (think of how many people use PCs and also no-one is ever going to use a PlayStation 2 in the work place and the people who have a PC in the workplace will likely have one at home).

Metal Gear Solid has terrible graphics and so do all the PlayStation games I've ever seen. I didn't realise it but very few games on the PlayStation have proper 3D settings like Resident Evil 2 and the pre-rendered backgrounds are all low resolution (along with the rest of the game).

On a final note, how can you even compare a PC to a console? PCs are in a whole different league to consoles which are for cheapskates who won't fork out for a PC which can be picked up for a measley £699.

Ronan Delaney

FG: Mr Nash certainly seems to have got up a few people's noses. His article was a) his own views b) funny c) entertaining to read. If you've got a PC and enjoy playing games on it, then where's your problem? Just because a certain Mr Nash happens to hate PCs and thinks consoles are far more suited to playing games on it shouldn't offend you. Mr Nash wasn't trying to say that PCs aren't versatile, he was merely saying that they're horrid things for playing games on when compared to consoles. Is that really such an offensive thing to say? And as for 'a measly £699', I don't know about you but that's a serious investment to me. Those of us who are on a budget and yet still want to play games think long and hard about splashing out £100 for a PlayStation, let along £700 for a PC. And don't tell me I could use it for loads of other stuff - I don't want to write parish newsletters or whatever. I want something to play games on.