Once they pass Doom 4 in time then they can possibly be the biggest joke of the 21 century (aside from Agent, now that game is actual vaporware).

Damn 2020? Guess that will be just as long as Doom 4 took.

So your argument started that the 8 original people of the team developed the prototype in 2011 (doesn't the original team number include people like Sandi Gardner and Ben Lesnick?) now it has changed to CryTek and contractors making the prototype video count as development by Chris Roberts on a playable prototype? What? Where does this compute in your quote about prototyping: "its work and knowledge of the tools you intend to use"? How can the experience from building the prototype have happened in 2011 if it wasn't his team that built the prototype video in 2011?!?

So are we counting Wing Commander work and all the development of the previous CryEngines as work on this game now?

It was a simple question: Was the kickstarter prototype demo developed by just the 8 original people in 2011 like you said, or was that done by CryTek with input from some of those 8 people?

@waahahah: Wasn't Crytek mostly responsible for the original prototype video in the kickstarter campaign?

Are you talking about MSDOS??? LOL

Why do we have to choose between 6 different consoles, what are these Switches and Scorpios, why can't Nintendo be the only console, competition is hard...

Where are the comments about how PC is all about graphics and yet everybody only plays League of Legends? Where are Nintendo's DOTA games?

@ronvalencia: I think you have something mixed up there. The i3 shown in those graphs is the i3-6100TE 35w model that runs at 2.7Ghz not a 3.7Ghz i3-6100.

As shown in this GTAV graph the actual 3.7Ghz i3-6100 is a good 10 fps away from the x4 845:

@Gatygun: You pretty much nailed it. Their was eurogamer article recently where an indie dev stated in an email about basically blacklisting review sites if they got very negative feedback. Publishers have been doing this stuff for a while, if I remember correctly DSOGaming had a piece about how they are blacklisted because of doing performance articles.

@ronvalencia said:

@BassMan said:

http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-hardware-market-breaches-30-billion-for-the-first-time/

PC gaming is stronger than ever and will continue to grow as people realize how redundant the consoles are and make the shift to quality gaming on PC. Sony admitted they released the Pro as an attempt to keep gamers from leaving to PC and Microsoft has embraced PC with their Play Anywhere initiative. Things are looking good. :)

The above graph was also in JPR's most recent report.

This study is with-in the stagnation and the decline of the overall picture of PCs. The inclusion of Accessories & Peripherals just boost overall numbers.

PC add in boards seem to be doing just fine shipping ~10mil units quarterly like clockwork. What have consoles sold this past year? About 25 million from both the PS4 and XBox1 together for 2016?

As for the 'decline' in desktop PCs I won't even read JPR's take on anything concerning that as their last AMD-sponsored article was just atrocious. I will put my take on it though: With AMD not releasing anything significant for the performance segment in the past 4-5 years and Intel getting complacent with only incremental improvements as their is no competition (until Ryzen), there was bound to be a lull as people are less likely to have incentive to buy new or upgrade. Two years stagnation in the market is less about the decline of the PC and more about the problem introduced by the lack of AMD products.

A second take on this is the Windows 10 free upgrade occurred during the time line shown as opposed to the older practice of people building a new system with the new OS or buying premade.

Those are two significant occurrences that if you choose either one or both you get an explanation for the dip and as AIB numbers remained relatively constant it would seem the more plausible than the overall decline of the PC.

I would prefer numbers over their charts as JPR seems to have issues making them with any accuracy.

Or Mobas, MMOs, etc.

Consoles may have the best games for you in some genres/subgenres but that in no way means they are the most coveted of all games.

So what objective form of determining do YOU use for what your subjective opinion of best is? Sales? Player base? An average of a couple of more people's opinion?