So what would happen if PC gaming ACTUALLY DIED?! :o
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At first I was going to post the obvious reply, PC gaming won't die, but then I thought about it.
This is the scenario:
The console war becomes so popular that computer guys want "In" on it too. So Microsoft and Apple both develop consoles. Because both companies are used to making computers, they'll basically do just that, they'll make computers, rip out most of the features and market them as "consoles". Heck, one of them might even use one of their own operating systems and hope that console junkies don't notice they're playing with Windows 2k. (Oops, was gonna leave out specifics.)
Either way, for some reason, these new retarded computers are accepted into the console war for the same reason you can enter a handicapped jogathon by chopping off some of your limbs.
The real console companies realize that now they are competing directly with computers, which have always been, or had the ability to be superior for a multitude of reasoning. So the console companies have to compete by making they're consoles slowly into computers, they add web surfing, instant messaging, and the ability to get viruses.
Then all the consoles eventually mutate from PCs for the casual gamer into computers that don't work right and are expensive to upgrade. During this time, however, they keep the ability to use handheld controllers, even though every console adopts some form of a mouse and keyboard. They also keep the name "consoles" even though with operating systems and PC parts they're no different from a badly crippled computer with AIDS and a joystick.
Since all the companies at this point realize "console" gaming is where the money is at, they simply stop marketing PC parts, and sell them as "Console upgrades", add some ram, swap out your video card, that kinda crap.
Therefore, nobody works on PCs anymore, that word is in fact taboo, you must refer to it as a console, or "gamebox" if you're to old to understand technology.
Poke a hole in my theory, go ahead, give it a try, then go play some Halo on your retarded PC, I mean xbox. (Heh heh heh, yer such a friggin' tool.)
This is the scenario:
The console war becomes so popular that computer guys want "In" on it too. So Microsoft and Apple both develop consoles. Because both companies are used to making computers, they'll basically do just that, they'll make computers, rip out most of the features and market them as "consoles". Heck, one of them might even use one of their own operating systems and hope that console junkies don't notice they're playing with Windows 2k. (Oops, was gonna leave out specifics.)
Either way, for some reason, these new retarded computers are accepted into the console war for the same reason you can enter a handicapped jogathon by chopping off some of your limbs.
The real console companies realize that now they are competing directly with computers, which have always been, or had the ability to be superior for a multitude of reasoning. So the console companies have to compete by making they're consoles slowly into computers, they add web surfing, instant messaging, and the ability to get viruses.
Then all the consoles eventually mutate from PCs for the casual gamer into computers that don't work right and are expensive to upgrade. During this time, however, they keep the ability to use handheld controllers, even though every console adopts some form of a mouse and keyboard. They also keep the name "consoles" even though with operating systems and PC parts they're no different from a badly crippled computer with AIDS and a joystick.
Since all the companies at this point realize "console" gaming is where the money is at, they simply stop marketing PC parts, and sell them as "Console upgrades", add some ram, swap out your video card, that kinda crap.
Therefore, nobody works on PCs anymore, that word is in fact taboo, you must refer to it as a console, or "gamebox" if you're to old to understand technology.
Poke a hole in my theory, go ahead, give it a try, then go play some Halo on your retarded PC, I mean xbox. (Heh heh heh, yer such a friggin' tool.)
Im not sure weather you people are suggesting people will stop using computers for gaming or stop using them altogether sometimes.
It will die later in this generation of consoles or maybe the beginning of the next generation when all of the games that used to be offered on the PC start to be offered on the consoles. You can already use a mouse and keyboard on both consoles and they both have harddrives and they both offer graphics that would require a PC 3 times more expensive to provide. It's really already happening Age of Conan is going to be released on 360 this fall and Crytec is going to develop for consoles soon. All of this is going to make PC gaming obsolete very soon. Personally I don't care if PC gaming dies tomorrow, But I don't play WoW or any of those other grinding RPGs and I have a PS3, 360 and Wii.
You'll always have chess bejewelled and solitare though.
You'll always have chess bejewelled and solitare though.
Thank you, although the word you want is "you're".shatnershaman said:
I also happen to be an English teacher on top of being a macho, sexy, handsome, charismatic, iridescent, burly, intelligent, tall, socially well-endowed, and let us not forget, happy ex-game tester person.
I can see why you might take a shine to me.
Oh yeah, and I'm humble also.
PC gaming won't die, like others have said they are at a low point right now, but they'll rebound. If you play multiplayer FPS such as Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike you'll know the thrive for PC gaming is still out there. Let's not forget about World of Warcraft for the MMORPG.
Wow, IceFace, you really hate computer companies. Did they touch you in the bad place? Yeah, you're VERY humble. Bragging about all your good points. Friggen' jerkass. People like you who tortured me for 5 straight years... Go get a JOB at a SCHOOL or write some books.
PC games simply can't die. Most Western countries have a great grasp on computers, and will do what Rick Astley would do for women (Never gonna GIVE YOU UP). PC's will just simply be immortal, like the horse or the T.V. or the radio (You've yet to have your finest hour, Radio) [Cookie for whoever can figure out which ong that quote comes from].
PC games simply can't die. Most Western countries have a great grasp on computers, and will do what Rick Astley would do for women (Never gonna GIVE YOU UP). PC's will just simply be immortal, like the horse or the T.V. or the radio (You've yet to have your finest hour, Radio) [Cookie for whoever can figure out which ong that quote comes from].
It boggles the mind to think of that possibility but anyway... if it dies tomorrow
If PC gaming did die then that would be murder. Me and a couple of friends would go and avenge PC gaming by killing everybody responsible for its downfall (including you!).
If I still have my PC after that, I'll keep playing Call of Duty 4 on my PC until I die
Or try to make a hybrid PC by jamming a console inside it then it turns against me and takes control of the world
If PC gaming did die then that would be murder. Me and a couple of friends would go and avenge PC gaming by killing everybody responsible for its downfall (including you!).
If I still have my PC after that, I'll keep playing Call of Duty 4 on my PC until I die
Or try to make a hybrid PC by jamming a console inside it then it turns against me and takes control of the world
They would use computers, but it would become a financial mistake to release games for PCs and consoles because the number of people willing to buy it for the PC would not bring in enough money to pay for the expenses of selling it, so they just don't do it, and stick with consoles. Or something like that. Maybe.Isalan said:
Agtmadcat, you did to me what you did to ElArabDeMagnifico, made me look forward to the death of PC gaming.
Looks like the point flew 10 meters above your head.Codgo said:
We're just making scenarios of how PC gaming could die, whether they be serious or not. The other thread is just bitching about exclusives and sales, and if console is better than PC, and vice versa.
This is just an arbitrary question to pass the time. Also, just use the report button next time, the mods will see if it's acceptable or not.
No plausable scenario exists where PC gaming would actually die. PC gaming is stronger than console gaming is, just not in the US and Japan and it will rebound in the US. Great games still exist, ones that trounce anything on a console. Crysis was the best game to appear in any format in 2007 and it was a PC exclusive. The Orange Box was a close second and the console iterations pale in comparison to the PC version, after all, that is what it is meant to be played on anyway. The same goes for COD4 and Bioshock. There is no point to this threat what so ever.
It's a hypothetical exercise. It requires imagination. You do have an imagination, yes?ingsoc said:
Yeah, I really just hate microsoft, they touched me in my wallet, a very bad place to touch someone.x434343 said:
It was a contradiction I put there on purpose, thats also why I said I was iridescent, which means I glow in the dark (which is only partially true). Thank for ruining my joke by explaining the obvious.x434343 said:
As for jobs at school? I'm an English teacher.... at a school, write a book? I've written 1 and I'm working on a second.
As for torturing people, its for their own good, like hitting a bad dog with a newspaper. You should feel lucky that people care enough to try to help you become a better person. Its a good thing I was born perfect or I would have to be tortured myself.
Just to set thing straight, I prefer PC over consoles, and I use a windows operating system even though I despise it. I was going to add another joke, but some captain obvious will probably ruin it with a "Technically the odds of the chicken making it across the road are slim considering the traffic." comment, or something to that effect.
If PC gaming were to actually die (impossible by the way) it would just make people realize what they had been missing and make the companies involved realise how much profit is envolved. Once this happened PC gaming would quickly be revived bigger and better than ever before.