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That's why PC sales are up then. Why Steam continues to gain more users and money. Why motion controls are being put on the PC anyway (of course, plenty of the "hardcore" console gamers also moan to death about motion controls - and whilst Kinect has sold massively well, I'm pretty sure actual game sales for it are fairly pitiful). Not that motion controls are as accurate as a mouse and keyboard anyway.
As for the whole Facebook thing, its a DIFFERENT MARKET. If sales on "hardcore" PC games are also rising, then how are they dying? They're just more expensive, so the increase in sales doesn't come that fast from THAT market. Since FB and its ilk are a different, cheaper market (and a new one), they raise faster.
This video is a little bizarre. You're right, why would you keep all those things at a hub in your house, when you could buy 300 different appliances that all only do a few functions of it? Oh, wait...
And last time I checked, I'm pretty sure laptops were counted as PCs.
Oh, and if you installed IE and Office on a 360, you would have a basic PC. You're not rendering your old one useless, you're just building a slightly more limited one.
Oisin O said:
I haven't owned a PC in years, I get by perfectly fine on a laptop, an xbox and a good phone. Pc gamine these days drives me crazy with all the antipiracy stuff they've introduced, i bought hard copys of 2 games and couldn't play either because the giant fail that is Steam wanted me to download both games, which i can't do because I'm on a limited data usage plan.
If you have the discs, you don't need to download the games through Steam. Just register them.