PC Gaming is DYING

[Railgun88]

Besides the councils are getting so high priced at their releases you might as well build a computer for the same price and get the added bonus of being able to store 4 terabytes of porn.

You got me. That's why I built my PC. >.>

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Can this thread be about kittens now?

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EEEEEEEEEE! OH MY GOD! They are so cute :3

lol at the op btw. PC gaming was dying for 10 years now and yet we still have pc games. I play games exclusively on pc and I NEVER tried to hump the disc drive, or any other part of my pc. Seriously, your post had offensive stereotyping! Not cool man.

 

[JWAN]

Can this thread be about kittens now?

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EEEEEEEEEE! OH MY GOD! They are so cute :3

lol at the op btw. PC gaming was dying for 10 years now and yet we still have pc games. I play games exclusively on pc and I NEVER tried to hump the disc drive, or any other part of my pc. Seriously, your post had offensive stereotyping! Not cool man.

I think we should talk about how the logo for the 2012 olympics looks like lisa simpson giving head

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/06/05/olympics460.jpg

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Odd...I've heard people crying about this exact same thing for about 10 years now.

Yeah, maybe PC gaming is dying. But it's taking its damn time doing it, and I'm going to be sitting at the deathbed when it finally goes under.

me too. although i just bought an xbox 360 and a copy of borderlands, and i'm having a hell of a lot of fun. nothing will ever be as competitive as mouse+keyboard but trigger controls plus force feedback is just fucking satisfying!

 

[WickedSkin]

The world ended in the 1960's from global cooling
The world ended in they year 2000 from Y2K
PC gaming died in 2001
The Mayans were a bunch of lazy tossers

^ one of the above is correct

Im going with the tossers one because they just ran out of room on the rock, instead of going to the store and buying some gorilla glue to add onto it

PC gaming will not die out during our life time

I don't think any of them are true. The Mayans have been credited with the invention of irrigation, the calendar, architectural techniques, astronomy and mathematical works. Nearly a thousand years before the rest of the world.

If they were alive now, they'd probably have left the planet a while ago for some peace and quiet.

They didn't because they had their asses kicked. Mayans weren't that special anyhow considering other places in the world and periods.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Oh hey world of warcraft. Debunk this whole thread, will you?

Not that I agree that PC gaming is dying but, for future reference, World of Warcraft isn't a reason you can use to debunk that PC gaming may seem to be dying, World of Warcraft is a cause for why PC gaming may seem to be dying. When all you've got left on the shelf at Best Buy is one game, because everybody seems to think $15/mo is all the game budget they need, the platform seems mighty barren.

I've never been into a store that didn't have a pc section as large or larger than the other sections. Hell, its usually 2 rows to pc games while 1 row covers more than one console game section. This includes educational crap and such, but its there (and I assume selling because it's still there).

Now if you go to walmart, yes, the pc section is probably smaller since they seem to not carry anything older than 2 months in their pc games unless it sells stupidly well.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

I think we should talk about how the logo for the 2012 olympics looks like lisa simpson giving head

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/06/05/olympics460.jpg

Spoiler: HOLY SHIT THAT'S FUNNY

also, what's with the super saturated colors and the tron-ish font? wtf is this, 1986 part deux?

 

[elricik]

PC gaming is not dying, I just spend 1000 dollars on an Alienware PC rig for gaming exclusively. I am now happily enjoying Crisis, Spore, Civilization 4, and the Sims 3.

 

[covertmonkey]

Ah this wonderful debate is still alive it seems i sort of figured the console tards would have realized by this point that PC gaming isn't going to die no matter how much they want it to(always wondered why the wanted it to die inferiority complex comes to mind). Yes in some countries im sure console games have higher physical sales that there PC counterparts but again this is depend on your country for example in Australia PC games have higher hard sales than console games due to our country being dominated by PC gamers. I'm a PC gamer I'll be lanning about 4 hours from now with my dead gaming genre and hell I'll be lanning 4 days from now aswell. I appear to have lost the point of this post and I'm now rambling but the point here is PC gaming isn't dying stop feeling inferior there is nothing wrong with console games personally i find them a little bit simple but hey that's just me and what do i know.

 

[SantoUno]

Why the hell do people keep saying this? I've never been a PC gamer but even I know that PC gaming has never been close to dying, it just receives less attention now because almost all the most popular games coming out nowdays are for all platforms including the PC.

and also FPS games on the PC are better.

Has nothing to do with the OT.

 

[WickedSkin]

...and let's not forget Dragon Age: Origins!!! (I am getting it for Christmas ... on the PS3 ... sort of shot my argument in the foot there didn't I?)

Losing out on the tactical view, aren't we?

The PC version is better for strategists...

Actually, the only reason I am getting the PS3 version is because (according to a friend who has it) the battles are more fast-paced, which is (with the exception of FFX) how I like my rpg battling.

That depends on how you play it. On PC there are also MODS and prettier graphics. MODS will add extra hours, weeks maybe years to the game

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

If it is, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Edit: and just because shit isn't exclusive for the PC anymore doesn't mean it's going to die out as a whole, shit I'm already planning on getting a PC for gaming! Besides the only reason sales on games are going down on the PC is because it can be expensive to find/make a computer that can run games being released today and no one likes that so they buy it on a console instead.

Also piracy is a reason sales tend to be low for the PC.

 

[ArmoredCavalry]

The fact that it takes so much money to constantly upgrade your PC just turns people off. I would LOVE to play so many of the amazing games on PC, but it's just too much money. console gaming is way more cost effective for most people.

I hate this argument most of all.... People thinking the ABILITY to upgrade means you MUST upgrade....

Try upgrading the pc only when new consoles are released. You are going to be able to play any games that were ported from current-gen consoles, at at least the graphics settings of those consoles.

Also, the cost of games for PC is much lower on average (check any online game store), and you are saving a ton of money there. So no, pc gaming does not HAVE to be more expensive....

 

[Pegghead]

No it isn't. If anything it's become stronger than ever over this past decade, what with the rise in popularity of things like steam and multiplayer. Take a break from being a console fanboy for a few seconds and marvel at just how truly incorrect your opening statement is OP. And yes, anyone with an ODST avatar in my mind probably doesn't play much pc.

 

[Rednog]

Pfft... If you spend anytime outside the internet going round locally and finding out what's really going on you'd know for sure.

From the amount of LANs I go to both around me and in the city I see higher numbers and packed to the rafters in PC event with the 16-25 year olds and console events seeing only half filled with piss ass Halo fanboys 12 years old and under.

From the looks of it when I go to the bi-monthly PC/Console LAN nearer the city center I see the number of Xbox owners dwindling more and the number of the computers section keeps climbing.

It might be true however that the average age for gamers is increasing and when those gamer gets older they see the potential for getting a job to pay for expensive system required parts for their PC.

I'm wondering if this is just an aussie thing. Back in the states or at least the city I live in (Chicago) LAN centers died out long long ago. They were all over like 8 years ago, but as the computers became more and more common they got phased out quickly, mostly due to it being ridiculously expensive. I remember places used to charge roughly $3 and as a teen in highschool 5 hours of play was well worth it and wasn't a hit in the pocket. But over time places charged more and more an the selection of games plummeted, the last LAN center I ever visited charged $7 an hour, which gets really expensive for anyone who wants a long play session and over like a year you would probably spend way more at a LAN center than buying your own PC.
Now that I've moved to europe I see a similar trend. Game LAN centers have been replaced with cheap cafe type shops, which uses cheap PC mainly for e-mail and general browsing.

 

[geldonyetich]

Oh hey world of warcraft. Debunk this whole thread, will you?

Not that I agree that PC gaming is dying but, for future reference, World of Warcraft isn't a reason you can use to debunk that PC gaming may seem to be dying, World of Warcraft is a cause for why PC gaming may seem to be dying. When all you've got left on the shelf at Best Buy is one game, because everybody seems to think $15/mo is all the game budget they need, the platform seems mighty barren.

I've never been into a store that didn't have a pc section as large or larger than the other sections. Hell, its usually 2 rows to pc games while 1 row covers more than one console game section. This includes educational crap and such, but its there (and I assume selling because it's still there).

Now if you go to walmart, yes, the pc section is probably smaller since they seem to not carry anything older than 2 months in their pc games unless it sells stupidly well.

I meant 1 game figuratively rather than literally, but I am surprised at your experiences because it's the polar opposite here.

Around here, go into any GameStop, EB Games, Best Buy, ect and you'll see about 80%+ of their game space is dedicated to consoles and handhelds, they might have two small PC game shelves. Two shelves would be a generous example, I seem to recall one time I walked into a smaller EB/GameStop that didn't have didn't have any PC games at all. I don't think that one lasted, though, which may say something about that being a bad decision.

 

[covertmonkey]

[quote="Hyperactiveman" the last LAN center I ever visited charged $7 an hour, which gets really expensive for anyone who wants a long play session and over like a year you would probably spend way more at a LAN center than buying your own PC.

wow that's brutal in Australia it's like $3 an hour

 

[Aesir23]

I doubt it's dying. Sure there are a lot of games available for consoles, but there are plenty available for PC as well. I find that a number of games play much better on my PC than they do on my 360 (The Last Remnant being the best example that I've come across so far.).