PC Games Will Outsell Consoles by 2014

[Ukomba]

The PC will win in the end because it's the only platform without motion controls.

 

[esperandote]

1. How come there's no Consoles (including portables) vs Graphics cards sold chart?
2. Is there any importat fighthing game on PC? That's one of my favorite genres and I have never looked for that and if theres isn't then I wouldn't want to buy a gaming PC.

 

[punipunipyo]

First thing... there are a lot of shooter games coming out, many requires players to twitch, quick turn, and massive button functions, AKA games made for PC... I love PC gaming... but my computer suck hell, if it wasn't because I couldn't run Dead Space PC, I'd buy it for PC. Now with CPU/GPU that can top our current consoles easy, I can finally go back and say to my self when I pre-order games "my PC can pump better graphic than that..."

Despite all that... It's Nvidia, a graphic card company that spent most of their resources on GPU... they WOULD say "PC gaming is up" even when it's not... because it's to boast their market...

But to me... when my New rig is done... I WILL hop back to PC gaming... the glorious mouse aim, the fantastic patch/extra contents/mods, and Tweaking my own key/mouse setup to match my likings. THAT's what it means to play PC game! and, yes, till the consoles "upgrade" to the next level... I am more likely to buy PC games now, just simply because if i was given a choice, I PREFER PC GAMING!

 

[XMark]

It's only natural that PCs will begin to gain ground towards the end of a console generation, since the consoles stay the same while PC gamers keep upgrading hardware.

When the next generation of consoles finally hits, PC will lose ground again, and then slowly gain ground towards the end of that generation, and so on.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Oh really?

A company that exclusively makes stuff for computers thinks computers are going to dominate everything. What a shock.

 

[bootz]

And yet, I feel that in spite of whatever power trends may be occurring between consoles and PCs, you're average frat boy/gamer/normal person, isn't going to want to spend the time/money to learn how to upgrade a computer and/or buy a new one every four or five years, whereas they probably won't mind dropping $300-500 every console generation of five to six years.

That is, until desktops become so cheap that they simply begin to become as replaceable as consoles.

I bought my pc 6 months ago for $300 and it runs witcher 2 on ultra. Pcs are cheaper than consoles and more powerful. A refurbished emachines crap computer right now out does an xbox 360. hell last week I bought a laptop on cleanarce at staples for $350. It has a bluray player 4GB ram and nvdia go graphics. It runs games better then my xbox 360.

 

[darksakul]

So nVidia is jumping the gun again?

Jen-Hsun Huang go back to eating your pork shoulders, you only geek that have muscles like Lou Ferrigno and stop having your PR department spread propaganda.


Yes PCs are always changing, People get upgrades every 6 months to 2 years
Consoles are more static, changes take place every 5+ years.
PC games got more customization options, even if you go to unofficial mods and hacks.
For the sake of argument, we agree games that run on both platforms are about the same price.
Example: Borderlands go for the same price retail for PC as it does for PS3 and Xbox 360.


Yes Consoles are physically weaker, but they also have to run alot less software.

Open you Task Manager on a Windows PC(Linux and Mac users not apply).
How many processes are you running?

Unless you are running a Fresh install of Windows XP, your are probability running 35 processes and up. Add 20 more if your running vista or Win 7.

How many processes a PS3 runs, 2 maybe 3, console games are more stream lined.

Who as the advantage?
Hard to say, for First person shooters, MMOs, RTS and Social Network games PC is the better platform. Standard controls Keyboard and mouse.

For Many RPGs, Fighting games, Platforming (think Super Mario game play) Consoles have a clear advantage. Standard Controls, Game Pad, maybe Arcade Stick for Enthusiast.

Classics? Hard to say, lots of older Console games are ported to newer systems, same thing with Steam and GOG.Com is with older PC games.

"But I can Emulate old NES games on my PC for FREE" Emulators are fine, but those Roms are legal Grey areas at best and completely illegal at the worst.

As others said before there is a "Ebb and flow" with Consoles and PCs.

 

[Woodsey]

I am curious as to why they think console sales have peaked and are only going to drop in the future while pc game sales rise. It doesnt really make any sense at all. It seems like a pretty silly to assume console game sales are just going to drop with absolutely no proof of it at all.

Is there any particular reason two platforms are always pitted against one?

Because when its estimated that the majority of sales on the PC are now through digital downloads, which aren't specifically tracked, and you then pit two platforms against another solely on retail sales, its all a bit... retarded.

If you had taken two seconds to look at the charts you would have seen they did account for digital sales.

I meant in general, although they're still comparing two against one, and I would assume they're making estimates for previous years still, since I've not heard about Steam (or anyone else, as I assume people like D2D and GOG don't either) turning around on their policy to not release the copies they've sold.

 

[Bluecho]

Or if not a Golden Age, then at the very least a Silver Age. Let's just hope there won't be any super-powered guys mopping up oil slicks with their super hair. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/comic/10632-retardsilverage

 

[Woodsey]

I meant in general, although they're still comparing two against one, and I would assume they're making estimates for previous years still, since I've not heard about Steam (or anyone else, as I assume people like D2D and GOG don't either) turning around on their policy to not release the copies they've sold.

Ya they dont need to tell you the exact number of copies of each game they sold but they have to report their total sales to both shareholders and the government. Neither the numbers of sales for the PC or console are 100% accurate but they are also not completely wrong. I am betting they are both missing large chunks of sales but I doubt that would not really change much.

Well, Steam doesn't have shareholders (just going with them as they're massively in the lead in the market), and if the government figures were so easy to get a hold of then surely we'd have had someone else get information on them from that before.

 

[Venats]

I bought my pc 6 months ago for $300 and it runs witcher 2 on ultra. Pcs are cheaper than consoles and more powerful. A refurbished emachines crap computer right now out does an xbox 360. hell last week I bought a laptop on cleanarce at staples for $350. It has a bluray player 4GB ram and nvdia go graphics. It runs games better then my xbox 360.

The issue is in upgrading one vs. the other; the latter case is as simple as buying a new machines. The former? Not so much. Either you have to drop ~the equivalent of a console on GPUs and put it in yourself, which your average mechanically challenge sheeple isn't going to do, or you buy a new box then do a lot of file moving and reinstalling, or moving your HDD... but you'd probably want to upgrade your HDD with the new box.

As it stands, and until PCs become so cheap and stupid-free as to allow you just pull out an SD card with all your info and put it in a new box, the console is going to be easier for your average consumer.

 

[Kuroneko97]

I play both. Although lately I've found it easier to sit at my desk playing a game than sitting on my bed playing a game. Either one's fine. Both are fun and have a pretty good market. It just so happens that PC games are doing a little better than before.

I agree with many. This isn't a gaming war, peoples. Play Gears of War of Battlefield for a gaming war.

See what I did there?

 

[Xman490]

I know it's rather annoying to set up a new image for an article's front-page image; however, some guy punching a baby seal is not only unrelated to PC game sales, but its also not very nice to look at either. It's the same thing with that mad scientist image being for those genetics articles.

 

[Poisoned Al]

I think the age of buying a machine you just play games on will come to an end. People like the idea of playing a game on whatever is at hand, be it a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. I bet soon everything will be done on your phone, and you dock the thing into a keyboard and large display to do work on, then take it with you when you're done.

 

[RollForInitiative]

Tell you what: I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Waaghpowa]

£400 got my a laptop capable of playing ARMA 2 on high at a great frame rate, no lagging and rapid load times.

Can I have a name of this kind of laptop? Or a link to how I could buy one?

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/xps-laptops?c=us&cs=19&l=en

Quick google search. It's really not difficult assuming you try.

 

[aenimau5]

I can't see that happening despit the unparalleled power and glory of PC gaming. The majority of the people I know who play games wouldn't really call themselves gamers (They play CoD and fifa i'll let you work ou the rest) wouldn't even think about pc gaming. I can't see such a dramatic shift in.... thingys (I know theres a word for that) in only three or four years. ( I am probably going to seem like such a moron in three years)