Poll: Is PC gaming going to Die?
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Yeah, it gets quoted a lot here. No one mentions it's from fight club though, because, you know, the rules.Mr. Gency said:
im a former console gamer and now a pc gamer.. i got tired of fideling with my tv everytime i wanted to play a game... and to be honest ive spent at least a thousand bucks on games... and what nto for my computer, ok yes i do have some pirated games.. but mainly ones i cant find yet or ones i dont think are worth buying.. for the most part ive spent money on them
Oh no. Don't be stupid. Of course PC gaming is going to die.
You see, entertainment technologies like this are dependent on the business community making use of the technology as well to give steady support for the industry of building these machines so that consumer uses can then be developed. Things like cell phones and air travel is the same way.
Before long, corporations and government institutions and the like will finally realize that using computers to help manage their businesses was just a fad and go back to old reliable paper and storage houses full of filing cabinets. When that happens, PC's themselves will cease to exist and PC gaming will go with it. And what a boon to society that will be, too!
You see, entertainment technologies like this are dependent on the business community making use of the technology as well to give steady support for the industry of building these machines so that consumer uses can then be developed. Things like cell phones and air travel is the same way.
Before long, corporations and government institutions and the like will finally realize that using computers to help manage their businesses was just a fad and go back to old reliable paper and storage houses full of filing cabinets. When that happens, PC's themselves will cease to exist and PC gaming will go with it. And what a boon to society that will be, too!
Nope, PC gaming is alive and kicking. It always has been and always will be. Exclusives, mods, dedicated servers and the like will keep it going, even for the games that came out 5-10 years or more ago. And for those who say there aren't or are very little PC exclusives, here is a list of just SOME of the PC exclusives that came out this year alone.
List of PC exclusives
List of PC exclusives
No offense, but maybe lurk a little more? These threads pop up way too often.OriginalJoeBlack said:
OT: No. That's it. Everyones said everything that needs to be said... It isn't, it never was, it never will be.
The fact that you dont need to get the game certified (or whatever) by Microsoft to sell it means that PC games will never truly die.
Give consoles this ability, and put a mouse and keyboard on them, and guess what, you just made a computer, save for a few minor differences ('TV' instead of 'monitor')
and as long as consoles dont at least have a keyboard, RTSs will happily thrive on the PCs
Short answer. No
Long answer. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
And if it dies consoles would be just like a PC.
Long answer. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
And if it dies consoles would be just like a PC.
I meant Machinima done using programming, search for Civil Protection by Ross scott, tf2 Machinima such as Law Abiding engineer etc, HL2 pc gamers made the Escape from city 17 (Purchase Brothers), and Gmod Idiot box by DasBoSchitt or the Fallout 3 machinama The DC chronicles by Drakortha. There are many more I cant even remember especially for tf2. They keep PC gaming alive.OriginalJoeBlack said:Machinima, ok lets see: some Modern Warfare 2 commnetaries played on a console. Whatever. I take another look, and i see a shitload of Halo 3 or Garrys Mod machinima. In fact, that is the only thing i see there.KingTiger said:Check youtube and every Machinama on it. They are all high quality works from avid PC gamers. Most fan made work and mods that make the developers' jaws Drop are all from PC gamers.
PC gaming community is way too big to allow PC gaming to die. As long as valve and blizzard keep making their PC games works of art we will survive
Watch these vids and you decide ;D you are gonna be impressed.
This is business and in business money talks.
As long as they can make money from PC gaming, PC gaming will never die.
To add, the fact that Xbox360 games are similar to PC games it takes little time and money to make them work on PCs. Spend some additional time, a bit more money and with luck your make an additional million.
Not to mention that there are way to many interested parties here. Even if lets say EA decided it will no longer support PC games, I am certain that a hardware producer would step up, because a large portion of their top of the line and medium range products are sold because of PC gaming and it would really hurt their revenue, if there were no more PC games.
As long as they can make money from PC gaming, PC gaming will never die.
To add, the fact that Xbox360 games are similar to PC games it takes little time and money to make them work on PCs. Spend some additional time, a bit more money and with luck your make an additional million.
Not to mention that there are way to many interested parties here. Even if lets say EA decided it will no longer support PC games, I am certain that a hardware producer would step up, because a large portion of their top of the line and medium range products are sold because of PC gaming and it would really hurt their revenue, if there were no more PC games.
Nope.avi
PC gaming cant die, the pc makes the code, that makes the games on all consoles, do you think programmers use the xbox to code video games?
PC gaming cant die, the pc makes the code, that makes the games on all consoles, do you think programmers use the xbox to code video games?
Never. Starcraft 2 just came out and sold incredibly well, and games like The Sims 3 didn't go straight to console despite the HUGE market for them. The niche games and sheer amount of games you can get on the PC is staggering. If it's dying, then console gaming must be near death.
It won't die unless consoles somehow become enough like PCs to do all the things PCs can do. Of course, most of that is down to the market, and I can't see any reason the console market would change in such a way. Pretty much the only necessary difference is that consoles aren't an independent platform. If that were to change (uh, somehow) then it would be consoles that were dead. Or at least their business model, which is basically the only thing consoles are (well, there's also prebuilt hardware, but customisation options are just another part of PCs being independent). If consoles were to kill PC gaming, it would be by doing the things PCs do, which would mean they had become prebuilt PCs. PCs are killing console gaming!
I think the only thing that the OP is going to get out of this that he'd actually WANT is a little badge for having wasted everyone's time with an ignorant, redundant, and poorly researched question created a thread with replies/pageviews in the triple digits.
Playing along with this asinine substitute for an empirical search for truth, the only answer I need to provide can be summed up in one word: Steam.
Playing along with this asinine substitute for an empirical search for truth, the only answer I need to provide can be summed up in one word: Steam.
Well your first thread A) Sucks B) Is so very over done, please try harder next time
Why would a medium that has was built for internet and multiplayer be dying off just as console are entering an era of online and multiplayer?
Why would a medium that has was built for internet and multiplayer be dying off just as console are entering an era of online and multiplayer?