RIP PC gaming?

[Bat Vader]

I say good riddance. PC gamers think they're better than everyone else.

That myfriend, is because they are....

SECONDED.

We ARE better than you.

In all actuality no one is better than anyone. PC gamers and Console gamers are in the end all GAMERS! I like both the PC and the Consoles. They each have their Pros and Cons.

We ARE better.

Just wanted to piss you off. K, I go back under bridge now

edit: I love the gaming communities resilience though. We argue amongst eachother, we do it A LOT. But whenever somebody attacks the gaming community we ignore everything we've said to each other and launch a counter-attack at them.

You did a poor job of pissing me off. Half the time the arguments are petty though. I mean they are pretty much some one saying how their toy than someone else's. It is childish. It is nice that we band together against Jack Thompson but all the arguments is why the gaming community is so fragile.

Don't even get me started on the griefers.

Remember that ***** who was on Fox News and said "Mass Effect MAKES CHILDREN INTO SEXUALLY CONFUSED RAPISTS!!!"
Remember how we all gave her book 0 stars on Amazon.com or whatever and tagged the author as a bigot, a slut, whore, slurry, hypocrit whatever other harmful names we can think of?

Nobody fucks with the gamers.

Oh, Fueling the fire

Griefers fuck with the gamers. It is Fox News, What did you expect? The woman was a wrong and mis-informed about her statements of such a great game.

 

[jamesworkshop]

I would be quite happy to be wrong about my 'prediction', but I see that technologies such as:

> 4 core CPUs,
> 2 SLI GPUs with some being used for parallel processing, rather than graphics using things like NVIDIA's CUDA,
the Ageia PhysX chip,
and even more advanced cooling (perhaps involving circulating liquids).

Will not fall in value fast enough to prevent the middle of the PC market just buying one of the next-gen consoles instead. I simply don't think that many PC developers have realized that we have entered a major recession, that after the October 22 launch of Windows 7 the majority will be able to justify the expense of 'further upgrades' to their spouses/girlfriends. This time next year the core market of bleeding-edge gamers who are rich enough to spend any amount of money to 'have the latest' will start to shrink consistently month by month and, worryingly for the publishers, none of them will be buying multiple copies of their game - if they paid for it at all.

This will compel formerly PC only publishers to produce games for all platforms, probably using middleware tools such as CryEngine 3 with which the work done on 'the game' is independent of the target platform - each architecture having a differently optimized version of the engine that takes advantage of that platform's idiosyncrasies.

As a gap will have opened up in the PC community, between super-expensive 'bleeding-edge' and affordable, yet under-exploited 'mid-range', many PC gamers will reconsider the continued expense of their hobby and buy one of the subsidized next-gen consoles instead - and by this I mean the PS4 or Xbox 1080. They won't be missing out on any games that are PC-only and the new consoles may well have monitor outputs and support keyboard, mouse, joysticks and yokes (for all the Flight Simulator buffs out there).

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Can't say I agree 4 core CPUs are already on the market and at fantastic prices and SLi is a very small market segment and not a requirment to play any games

PC hardware is dropping prices alarmingly I've even seen 6GB of DDR3 2Ghz Ram being sold for £100 so about £16.60 a Gig for what is branded top of the range hardware.
In 2006 my PC cost £1500 and now I would struggle to spend over £800 without being silly in todays market.
The fact is that gaming is console centric and while PC's are playing console ports which will last for as long as the current consoles hardware will only get cheaper I mean console ports aren't even challenging to £80 graphics cards.

Super-expensive bleeding edge is no longer the norm in the PC world the £80 graphics card 3 years ago would not be even worth buying now they will play every game on the market and in some cases even with max settings or just playable settings in even crysis.
Consoles are going in the oposite direction by getting more expensive and more difficult to use and multi-platform releases have already started bioshock/UT3/mirrors edge all made on the multiplatform unreal engine why did Dead space/GTA4/DMC4/fallout3/fear2/cod4 get multiplatform releases and while this continues PC gaming is going to get a lot cheaper since the consoles will put the hardware pushing on hold.
Forget the Wii and the console market is stuggling the PS3 can't even outsell the old model (PS2)

 

[eelel]

for me, some one who is a huge rts fan, i do not think that the pc will be going away any time soon

 

[jamesworkshop]

for me, some one who is a huge rts fan, i do not think that the pc will be going away any time soon

Too true because PC gaming evolves their are no next generations and new revenue streams are always opening like advertising on free 2 play flash games.
Bill Gates made a fortune from the PC industry, shaking hands with people in $50,000 suits while wearing a Pizza stained jumper and at the time a college drop-out and the same applies to the gaming industry the PC is the home of people with ideas who can make tons of money without the need to be mega rich.
Peggle and plants vs zombies are as much PC games as crysis is yet much more profitable due to the low development costs and next to no advertising.

 

[eelel]

for me, some one who is a huge rts fan, i do not think that the pc will be going away any time soon

Too true because PC gaming evolves their are no next generations and new revenue streams are always opening like advertising on free 2 play flash games.
Bill Gates made a fortune from the PC industry, shaking hands with people in $50,000 suits while wearing a Pizza stained jumper and at the time a college drop-out and the same applies to the gaming industry the PC is the home of people with ideas who can make tons of money without the need to be mega rich.
Peggle and plants vs zombies are as much PC games as crysis is yet much more profitable due to the low development costs and next to no advertising.

and not to mention that you can play games with out having to install anything as well

 

[jamesworkshop]

for me, some one who is a huge rts fan, i do not think that the pc will be going away any time soon

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and not to mention that you can play games with out having to install anything as well

Yep as consoles develop into PC's the PC moves to new business models like advertising based or subscriptions and digital downloads, Valve only has to have a half price sale and Left 4 Dead gains a 3000% increase in sales or release a 2 day free full trial of Unreal T3 and when its over 200,000 people then buy the full game because they want to play more.

The browser based Quake Live and many other flash games no longer even require a graphics card to be played on the PC and battle field heroes is doing the same thing so now any PC with an internet conection is a gaming machine without the need for technical knowledge or money to be spent on Video cards and once made is very cheap as no physical media need to be produced or shipped readme.txt files are much cheaper than printed manuals.