Why people think PC gaming is dieing?

I think PC gaming will come out on top. The PC doesn't you require you to buy an entirely new system when new, more advanced stuff comes out Your freaking kidding right?? Sersiouly you have no clue what you are talking about if you think PC gaming is cheaper then console gaming, You have to upgrade your system every 2-3 years and you end up spending tons of money on it, your opinion is full of lie's and come's off and being bias which most PC gamers are these days, Now with that all said and done.. PC gaming isn't dying at all, but come its cheaper then console gaming your kidding right?? It would cost you 1000-1500 to get a PC to run Crysis and some of the other great games comming out this year, so don't give me that nonsense about how cheap PC gaming is, because its isn't.wizdom

People think PC gaming is dieing because console gaming is growing.

Its that simple.  The quality of games hasnt changed, as there are still many junk titles and many good titles just like for the past decades, and technology is always surpassing consoles on a yearly, if not monthly, basis.  Not to mention the whole online gaming community is still dominated by the PC (Resistance: Fall of Man has 40-person multiplayer, and the Sony boys were stoked about that lol).

Across two separate lectures at this week's Game Developers Conference, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and Epic Games president Michael Capps both admitted that piracy of PC games caused their companies to pursue developing beyond the PC platform. "Piracy has pushed id as being multiplatform," stated Hollenshead, whose company contracted Z-Axis to handle the PlayStation 3 version and Nerve Software the Xbox 360 edition of Splash Damage's forthcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC).

Comments made by Epic's Capps carried a similar tone. "PC Gaming is really falling apart," he revealed. "It killed us to make Unreal Tournament 3 cross-platform, but Epic had to do it", adding "the market that would buy a $600 video card knows how Bittorrent works." Epic is currently developing Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in-house.

Meanwhile, Firaxis designer and programmer Soren Johnson remained confident in PC development. He suggested that "game design on the PC is going to bend toward persistence," noting Blizzard's World of Warcraft is "successful because you can't pirate WoW. You cannot pirate an MMO. Period."

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Its kinda funny, I remember walking into an EB games store around 1992-4. PC games had a HUGE wall filled with games. Now, we are limited to a little two shelf display, one labeled new releases, the other bargins. Everything else in EB is all console junk. Pretty soon we'll lose that display too. Then we'll have to whisper a secret code to the saleperson that would lead us "around back" to some shady looking guy in a trenchcoat with PC games underneath.

 godofratz

Ah, I miss those days. Everytime a new game is announced now, I'm disappointed when I see Xbox360, PS3, and Wii, but no PC.

I think PC gaming will come out on top. The PC doesn't you require you to buy an entirely new system when new, more advanced stuff comes out. All you have to do is upgrade some parts, which is, in most cases, a LOT cheaper than buying a new gaming system. Plus, I think the mouse and keyboard are easier gaming tools to use than wireless controllers and analog sticks... PC gaming also has a better life to it.

Say you have a console and a PC. They have the same game on each thing and equally kickass graphics... Would you rather be sitting a few feet away from a computer monitor, or four times that distance away from a television. Plus, you can upgrade your speakers to get awesome sound quality and stuff. Are you just going to go buy a new TV every time you want better sound quality..? NO! And even if you have a huge HD big screen TV, wouldn't you rather have all of the action right in front of you..?

I just think it is stupid that people think PC gaming is slowly dieing. I think PC gaming is better! The only reason I haven't been playing PC games is that my old computer sucked (It couldn't even play BF1942...). Now I am getting a new computer and I want to start getting into PC gaming. Plus, I am getting closer to the age where I can get a job in a few years. So I can buy upgrades and games and pay for MMOs and stuff whenever I want. So I will slowly etch out handheld gaming (Only games I played besides PS1... 0.0' Only console I have...) and slowly moving into PC gaming...

Obsolete in the next generation or two of gameing consoles? I don't think so. But I think that soon, PC technology will be far more advance than console technology... I think PC gaming will be number 1 in the future...
funnybunny12

PC gaming has it's advantages when it comes to some FPS games and RTS but anything else i prefer to play on a console. Sports, fighting, racing and platform games are all better on the console imo. The only game I play on my PC is Battlefield. I just wish they would make more games like Battlefield because all the other FPS games are same old same old.

I think PC gaming is slowly dying and I doubt they make much money from it unless it's a MMO. WHen you go to the store there are so few PC titles on the shelves even though the PC gets a crap load of games every week. Too bad 99.9% of them are console rejects.

I agree that PC gaming is better and i agree to the guy that said console vs. PC gaming is a preference...

but it's a fact that PC's can play all games at one point or another... thanks to emulators and usb ports for game controllers, pc gamers can play console games since atari and play fast games that need a controller like Ninja gaiden...

PC gamers have access to games from action -> strategies -> MMORPG, as do consoles... however... game developers have had a difficult time getting great RTS games onto consoles due to its lack of buttons, yes i know you can get keyboards for some consoles but the RTS for consoles don't use that anyway... at least not from my experience...

PC has games like Warhammer, Company of Heroes, Starcraft *lol good times*, Supreme Commander, the Total War games, and many many other RTS that are remarkable... the interface for these types of games is just much better as compared to what you could do on a console mostly due to not having a mouse or enough buttons for all the functions, and when there is an RTS on a console it doesn't amount to anything spectactular (from my experience that is)...  such as Goblin Commander ( don't get me wrong, it was fun, but... not something to rave about...)

However, XBOX does have the "Kingdom Under Fire" games, which are by all means awesome (not to mention highly challenging)... but that game playes out as more of an action game with plenty of strategy influence...

Consoles also have the strategy RPGs though, which are awesome .. such as FF Tactics, Front MIssion, Shining Force, Disgaea... etc etc... but, they aren't RTS, which is what my point is...

PC games have access to all genres of games and all of the games can be played with a nice interface thanks to the keyboard and mouse and usb ports for controllers if needed, not to mention flight yokes (i think that's what they're called) for flight sims and space games like X3, Privateer, etc... ^^ (not sure if consoles have flight yokes that can be used, of course they have analog sticks but it's not the same)...

in my opinion, PC gaming is better due to this...

I think PC gaming will come out on top. The PC doesn't you require you to buy an entirely new system when new, more advanced stuff comes out. All you have to do is upgrade some parts, which is, in most cases, a LOT cheaper than buying a new gaming system. funnybunny12

I don't know how you can ever say its cheaper to upgrade your PC than buy a console. I mean to get a top of the line gaming rig look at what your faced with price wise (With links incase you dont belive me :))

Video Card - 8800GTX - £350-£450 http://www.pricegrabber.co.uk/search_attrib.php?page_id=5&form_keyword=8800gtx%20price&mode=g_uk_b_s&skd=1&rd=1

Hard Drive - 160GB - £30+ http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ss_hard_drive_160gb.html

Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - £199-£240 http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPC-Intel-Core-2-Duo-E6600-2-4-GHz

RAM - 2GB Corsair - £224-£240 http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPO-Corsair-Memory-2Gb-Corsair-DDR2-1066-2x128Mx64-non-ECC-2x240-DIMM-unbuffered-5-5-5-15-E-P-P-Technology-H-S 

Total - Your Looking at least £800+ and thats assumingyou already have things like a Mobo, case, cooling etc. For something thats only going to last you 5 years max as compared to a console that can last 10 years+.

Im not bashing PC gaming as im a PC gamer my self but at the moment the way consoles are going its no surprise the PC genre is disapearing...

I see your point Endgame, but shifting to console is for a reason. They target the ppl that can not afford PC's. You know the differance in cost between the PC games and the Xbox or ps2 games. You pay a lot more, but you need not upgrade like pc gamers. So put 2 and 2 together. Marketing is the problem, but you'll never see NASA using a xbox for a flight simulator. Its all PC. As long as Bill Gates is around youll have pc games. A large % of ppl have PC's just for games.Roguetrp

Everyone can afford a PC. basically everyone has one but not that many people play games on it or care to upgrade video cards, CPu etc. I highly doubt many people own a PC just for games. more people own a PC just for the internet, word processing etc.

I agree with you. You cannot get an experience like battlefield on a console. Also many people fail to realise how many crap games are released on the PC. Every week I see at least 10 new games for PC and none are good. It's like the PC gets a good game once a year or more. I think the problem is their is no quality assurance on the PC. The majority of games released are basically console rejects.Deihmos

[QUOTE="Roguetrp"]I see your point Endgame, but shifting to console is for a reason. They target the ppl that can not afford PC's. You know the differance in cost between the PC games and the Xbox or ps2 games. You pay a lot more, but you need not upgrade like pc gamers. So put 2 and 2 together. Marketing is the problem, but you'll never see NASA using a xbox for a flight simulator. Its all PC. As long as Bill Gates is around youll have pc games. A large % of ppl have PC's just for games.Deihmos

Everyone can afford a PC. basically everyone has one but not that many people play games on it or care to upgrade video cards, CPu etc. I highly doubt many people own a PC just for games. more people own a PC just for the internet, word processing etc.

What I think he meant was they cant afford or just dont want to spend the extra money on a gaming pc. A $350 Emachine wont handle any recent games.

[QUOTE="Deihmos" I agree with you. You cannot get an experience like battlefield on a console. Also many people fail to realise how many crap games are released on the PC. Every week I see at least 10 new games for PC and none are good. It's like the PC gets a good game once a year or more. I think the problem is their is no quality assurance on the PC. The majority of games released are basically console rejects.

PC and 360 each had 10 games in the top 50 for 2006 out of all platforms at gamerankings.com and 2006 was a slow year for pc gaming

[QUOTE="Deihmos" I agree with you. You cannot get an experience like battlefield on a console. Also many people fail to realise how many crap games are released on the PC. Every week I see at least 10 new games for PC and none are good. It's like the PC gets a good game once a year or more. I think the problem is their is no quality assurance on the PC. The majority of games released are basically console rejects.Cranler

PC and 360 each had 10 games in the top 50 for 2006 out of all platforms at gamerankings.com and 2006 was a slow year for pc gaming

But look at the games. I am sure it's mostly RTS/RPG and FPS. If that is all you want to play then the PC is a good choice. Deihmos

3 of those games on 360 are sports, Viva Pinata, 1 rpg, no rts, the rest are shooters. Pc has 2 sports games a few each of rts,rpg and shooters. Pc wins even in a bad year.

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]But look at the games. I am sure it's mostly RTS/RPG and FPS. If that is all you want to play then the PC is a good choice. Cranler

3 of those games on 360 are sports, Viva Pinata, 1 rpg, no rts, the rest are shooters. Pc has 2 sports games a few each of rts,rpg and shooters. Pc wins even in a bad year.

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[QUOTE="Deihmos"]But look at the games. I am sure it's mostly RTS/RPG and FPS. If that is all you want to play then the PC is a good choice. Endgame_basic

3 of those games on 360 are sports, Viva Pinata, 1 rpg, no rts, the rest are shooters. Pc has 2 sports games a few each of rts,rpg and shooters. Pc wins even in a bad year.

3 of the 4 top rated 360 games were also on pc. I would choose COH and Dark Messiah over Gears and Dead Rising.