What will beomce of Nvidia or ATI if the PC Gaming is dead??? and rampant piracy

just wondering what will happen to those companies that sell pc components for pc gaming?

will they announce one day that they will forget all the pc parts and move on to the console??

if i understood correctly,

the major big pc gaming industries blame that PIRACY is getting bigger and bigger and there are virtually no solution for it.

EA is implementing DRM scheme, which i believe is doing nothing except leading more legit pc users into pirates.

thus, soon or later, the unstoppable piracy will dominate and will finally kill the PC gaming.

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my point is that, (sorry for the unorganized writing)

do the pc gaming component industries realize what can happen to them if the pc gaming is dead?

darn..

so Nvidia or ATI won't help the struggling pc gaming against the piracy at all?

to the the game developers, the pirates are lifetime enemies, but i guess people at Nvidia or ATI may see them as another group of customers..since the pirates can't pirate the hardwares.

Where is your supporting data?

Not dead, yeah.

Fastest growing? Highly doubt it.

Where is your supporting data?

Not dead, yeah.

Fastest growing? Highly doubt it.astri_14

How many current gen consoles are out there 30million combined?
Have you seen the data on how many PCs are used for games?

Casual, free and online games are still games...

The 'PC Is Dead' Static

Alongside this rose-colored imagery, though, is a growing tide of opinion that aims to ring a death knell for the PC as a gaming platform -- at least in its current shape. Just recently THQ's Michael Fitch railed against the challenges of the PC gaming audience on the heels of Titan Quest developer Iron Lore's closing, while the NPD's grim picture of 2007's PC retail biz is still reverberating.

Lombardi blames the retail-heavy NPD report for the anxiety wave. "That totally ignores the money changing hands, and properties like World of Warcraft with their monthly subscriptions. That totally ignores Steam sales, and any other MMOs and online distribution systems and a host of others... it also ignores things like PopCap games. Peggle's not in that number."

He continues, "If you took Steam, Peggle, PopCap, WoW and mixed it with NPD numbers, the world looks a lot different. All of a sudden, it looks like PC's probably the biggest one, and year over year, the fastest-growing."

We were joined by Valve's business development director, Jason Holtman, who also notes that the infamous NPD story focuses only on North America. And, he notes, Steam distributes worldwide. "Our view of where PC gaming is across the world is very different than someone looking at North America's numbers," says Holtman.QA with Valve

After 4 years people still want to argue and doubt me...

"the major big pc gaming industries blame that PIRACY is getting bigger and bigger and there are virtually no solution for it."

Piracy don't mean less money for the game developers automaticly, evrybody blames piracy, film,musik,gameindustry, yes in one way it's true but it's not all true, some people will not buy games and thoose will download them instead, the game has more players and get more publicity, it's not "all bad".

But some games have copyprotection wich often screw your pc up (starforce, punkbuster) In the cracked version the crackers often supplies the game without the copyprotection that can screw your pc up, this is not a bad thing.

If games are sold in a bigger amount the games don't nead to cost so much as they are rigth now. =developers get more money, players get more money, some wich downl illegal material might end up buying the game instead, "all good".

Where i live you must pay btw. $50-70 for a new popular game, this is way to much.

Games really nead to be cheaper.