Valagetti said:
No I'm not sniping you, I do wish one day for a world where PC rules over the gaming universe.
I'm not sure I do. I grew up on and like my consoles. Back then, consoles had Mario, and computers, had Number Muncher(yes, that could be installed on DOS. I did it several times during my childhood). I always liked some things about computers better, mostly the DIY thing, made you feel like you had more power over the process. I don't see what people think was so great about DOS gaming. The selection of games was terrible in my opinion. I installed loads of DOS games back then, but I loved my NES games much more. The only thing I liked about them was that they were on the computer. A PC means PC, it's all about options and risk taking and putting your part into the puzzle. While consoles are about throwing you a box of sealed up quality and approval. Consoles are plush luxury of ease and quality, while PCs are a constant project. Meaning that both have their own appeal.
I'm no PC gamer. The only PC gamer thing about me is that I spend almost all my nerd time on the PC and I hate television.
And I'm also not sure I would like PC to take over. Even if it's more convenient to have all the games I play on the same system I do everything else on. Instead of the games I like moving to the PC platform, they might just die. If such a thing were to happen, I have the feeling that a lot of companies would rather just go down with the ship rather than hop onto Windows or Linux or Mac.
I also don't understand why so many people seem to be making the claim that "PC gaming will take over, console gaming is dead". It seems like wishful thinking on the part of PC gamers, to me. At least on most people who claim them.
If I could attempt to understand where such a claim might be otherwise coming from, though. As much as I hate to admit it, it seems like we might be moving in a bit of that direction as well. The graphics race is going to soon die. And soon enough, consoles with more power are going to become less and less necessary, making there less need and reason for more consoles. As they won't be able to do much other than add a new gimmick. And as new games won't have any higher graphics, and won't use much more computing power, several year old laptops will be able to play all the newest games. All of them. There's also the fact that consoles themselves are from an outdated time where home computing was expensive, but console gaming was an affordable alternative.
I'm personally betting that consoles will continue existing for a couple more decades at least, though. And console companies will just have to continue putting out different new gimmicks until they can't sustain it anymore, instead of more powerful hardware. Nintendo and probably Japanese companies in general, are not going down without a fight from their precious contribution to the gaming world. The console is a cultural gaming icon that Japan has always had a foot in. Probably one half of the entire gaming industry itself is Japan. Whereas Japan has never had a huge part of the PC gaming world. And most importantly, Nintendo.
Nintendo isn't just one of the biggest video game companies, they're one of the richest and most powerful
software companies in the world. They essentially create Macintosh computers, but their Apples are for gaming, while Apples are for video editing. Nintendo is going to drop out of the hardware industry about as soon as Apple Inc. They're not going down without a fight. And for the console to die, you have to take out Nintendo. And Nintendo is NOT SEGA.
There might be some merit if it was just Sony and Microsoft. Microsoft is already in weird waters making consoles. But they're not alone, they're beside the staying power that is Nintendo.
Even if graphics and technology are moving in this direction, where PCs are more profitable than consoles, and more powerful hardware is becoming less and less useful for gaming, can you imagine Luigi's Mansion being on Steam anytime in the near future? I sure as heck cannot.
"Eventually", maybe. Soon? NO!
... why do my posts always end in a wall of text?
