Autocrawler

Just buy it on Steam. I'm rather sure it'll affect only retail, it sure does seem impractical making TWO sorts of the retail release of the same product for a single platform.
Steam is, however, nigh-guaranteed to have the "Black Box" edition.

It's called licensing costs, you know. It's nothing console gamers should really complain about, think of it as a tradeoff for getting cheaper hardware.

I didn't really like the original 360 version, but I might pick this up as a "show off" title for my PC.

Playing C&C3 on anything other than the PC is rather stupid, sorry. Just the same with most other RTSes, FPSes and WRPGs.

"It shouldn't be $10 more expensive than the PC version though."
It's called console licensing costs. $60 is the default price for retail console games, $50 is the default price for retail PC games. Why would you expect anything else?

Unless they radically managed to fix it from the sad state it was beta-ed in, I'm buying neither the PC or the 360 version. Typically I buy every game for my PC, but this time around they managed to screw the PC version totally with everything from dumbed down controls, inaccurate aim, graphical glitches, et cetera. I consider that an insult to PC gamers and thus will not be buying it. To be honest, even disregarding all those flaws, I don't think that the gameplay it has is actually that amusing at all.

"1. as someone who has an 8800gtx and a monitor that runs at 2560x1600 chances are lost planet will run just fine at that resolution with just a GTX :)"
Exactly.

"11. Nvidia 8800 ULTRA= waste of money
ATI HD 2900 XTX= Better deal"
While typically I prefer ATI GPUs over NVidia products, I should note that the XTX is outperformed by the GTX by a huge margin at least according to Dailytech's benchmarks.

"42. This is exactly why I stopped gaming on my PC. $500 for a video card? Give me my Powerbook and a 360, I'm happy."
You get what you pay for.
Unlike my PC I built for $1200 a year ago, no console can pull C&C3 at 1080p at near max detail.

On topic: I am interested in what will the benchmarks for the highest-end model of Radeon 2900 be. Have to get ready for Crysis on max you know. :)

Real gamers build their own gaming PCs.

And please, don't even bring up the cost comparisons between consoles and PCs. Comparing consoles to PC is like comparing toyotas to ferraris, they are simply in different leagues based on performance-the difference on most crossplatform titles is simply staggering in favor of the PC.

I don't care what the articles say, but I'll present my case here:
This year, I'm planning to buy 15 PC games and a total of 5 console games split between the 360 and the Wii.
Nearly every single game, except for a few shoddy console ports look simply amazingly better on my gaming PC. That coupled with the fact that I use my HDTV as a monitor so I can play at 1080p makes all consoles obsolete.