For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.