my predictions coming true sadly

I feel its just the beginning. Im all for things changing "like I knew they would" BUT whatever replaces my desktop better be as powerful and upgrade-able..OR really cheap to just buy new every other year.

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/no-really-pc-dying-not-coming-back/

Here we go again.

I think this is like the 30th time PC has died in the last 20 years. People that write these articles need a new hobby.

Indeed. Click-bait garbage.

PC is not dying console is dying

+1.

Plus this article is 10months old, so I don't know if this is a failed trolling attempt...

Daaaaaam! PCs are dead. Oh wait...

They predicted this back in 2011. According to the gloom n doom articles back then, PCs should have been extinct by 2016. Well, it's 2016 and these morons still want to eat more crow. Mmmm. Yummy.

If they were in my line of work, I would've fired them.

I guess most of those games are crappy early access games ....yea it is

The industry needs the desktop compute power for productivity, thus cheaper consumer PC parts for us.

$billion dollars revenue has nothing to do with "crappy early access".

Do you have any proof that despite all this rising billions of revenue, the biggest percentage total revenue (which btw, is bigger than XBOX and PSX together) of PC is coming from early access games?

Yeah, I don't think so...

no pc's are not dying, the reason for the overall decline in pc sales is because of econonmic decline. lots of business, government agencies for example are still using out of date pc's, if they were to completely upgrade and keep pace with tech, they alone would increase the market.

the article pointed this out this fact under the heading "no more pc no more power", then dismissed it as excuses. the global economy isn't in bad??

Wired is clickbait, ignore and move on.

The desktop that i have is a custom made, nearly had spend 1000 on building it. Next time i might buy one from digital storm.

Custom made desktops are getting their spotlight. In reality the PCs arent dying, but factory state models are the ones that are dying out as a brand.

This article is stupid. it just refers to business class computers... which are the majority of computers sold, it says nothing about gaming/enthusiast/work stations ... and just compares the market to phones... which is simply unfair. They've been singing the same tune for years...

Yet to see a tablet or phone offer even half the productivity in any field over a computer.

Pleanty of Directors in my company using iPads ... only they are useless with them and can't even set up their email accounts half the time... speaks volumes.

@MBirdy88:

Those Microsoft Surface tablets do heaps of productivity on the go.

I agree with your post though.

The PC has always been a solid (gaming) platform; though some people still continue to come up with ridiculous and misleading articles like the above mentioned.

Haven't read the article - but people have been saying that pcs are dying for ages now - and it just doesn't seem to be happening.

Who in they right mind games on a phone or a tablet - except casual players?

Pre-built PC's are dying. However, PC hardware sales are higher than ever. As long as people want to build and upgrade their own PC's the market will be there.

Yes, PC is dying. In the same way that people start dying once they're born, the Sun is dying because it has a finite amount of fuel, and all that morbid and cynical nonsense.

Meh they are more tablet/ultrabooks ... a higher end market, that are practically the next step in laptops, I wouldn't class them as normal tablets

It was Windows Vista what made Windows desktop die. Then windows 8 happened then 8.1 nearly made it better. But... Windows 10 I say desk top is back to its good old self of windows 7. All games and even all accessories I have work this time. I have track IR 5 and that's didn't like windows vista and 8, 8.1. But windows 10 is working again. Tried it serval times too on same machine. I like windows 10 pro amazing OS and probably get better too. .

One thing with Windows 10 is all the Securom games I compiled over the years quit working. I'd have to re-buy the digital versions. With Vista, 7, and 8/8.1, I had maybe one or two games that wouldn't work. With 10, I had a whole bunch that quit working just because MS dropped Securom support.

The only problem I had with Vista was it felt like a hog. That was fixed later by the service packs. By the time of Vista SP2, it was quite snappy.

it's like, good and bad at the same time, because securom is a pile of shit

It would've been nice if I was allowed a 1:1 trade from disc-based to digital-based for the games I already own.

Granted, it's not the publisher's fault. But, the publisher should, at least, make a patch to get rid of the disc-check or allow me to tie-in a game with a particular client (Steam, Uplay, Origin).

I hate paying for the same thing twice.

As an example...... Crysis Maximum Edition has both Crysis and Warhead. I can't play Crysis because it has a disc-check while Warhead does not and is playable in Windows 10. How hard would it be to issue a no disc-check patch for Crysis?

@jun_aka_pekto: to play the disc version of warhead on win 10, i think you have to download patch 1.00 and 1.1 from crytek and install and then launch the game from c: program files x86, electronic arts, crytek, crysis warhead, bin64 right click on crysis64 icon, run as admin. (if 64bit os).

for crysis after installing patches 1.1, 1.2 and 1.21 then similar steps as warhead to launch.

PCs are better and more powerful than ever. I don't see how they are dying. Plus with consoles and PCs now having almost the same hardware, the games available PC greater in number than ever.

Warhead (no Securom) works fine unpatched in Windows 10. It's Crysis (Securom), the one with Nomad, that doesn't work in Windows 10.

@jun_aka_pekto: you did say warhead worked on windows 10, my mistake.

as to crysis working on win 10 here is the proof

My only fear with this whole "PC/PC Gaming is dying" thing is that there are a lot of dumb sheep out there, and if you say something often and loud enough, they will buy into it and make it true.

LOL

Wired at it again. They do these articles every now and then, and they have always been wrong. I think there's some sad console molester making those articles, because why else would anyone bother?

edit: as for the topic creator; this will "come true" just as much as their previous predictions, wich is approximately, pretty much, about 0% chance.

yeah. whenever someone predicts that phablets will kill all other gaming devices, it only proves that they don't understand rat's ass about gaming. i would dare to even say that they are in a wrong business, if they have their hands in gaming market.

PC is most developed-for platform, has the highest user base and has the highest revenue. If anything happening then it's consoles that are dying.

Let me give it another shot. Sometimes, after a while, games that weren't working before start working again. I've seen games start working again after a MS update.

Yup. It looks like that last series of Windows updates probably had a fix. Crysis DVD is working here too.

Edit:

It looks like Rise of Legends is working too.

That is a problem with anything........social engineering.

Well PC components are still fairly cheap, but alot of it has to do with stagnation in IC engineering. It's easier to just add "moar cores" and make incremental core improvements than design whole new processing cores.

Skylake AFAIK is just a direct descendant of Nehalem. I'm not sure how related Nehalem was to Penryn and Conroe (Core 2 Duo), but if it was, it's a lineage that can be traced to the Pentium M and then all the way back to the Pentium III. AMD's upcoming Zen is a descendant of the K10/Stars cores from their Llano, Phenom II and Athlon II processors, which of course are directly related to their K8 family (Athlon 64).

1: PCs are used for more than just gaming

2: Windows isn't the only OS for PCs. Personally when I see people buying a laptop, more and more people chooses a Mac Book for example.

LMFAO! Pc is dying! Then the only thing they come up with as an example of this is the fact prebuilt over priced machines aren't selling like they used too... Ya because people who generally play on pc, tend to build their pc's not buy prebuilt overpriced machines like a macbook to play their games on. And the ones who use to purchased the overpriced junk you find in a bestbuy because they didn't know any better have moved to smart phones and tablets.

"None of this should come as a surprise in an age where mobile devices have become the dominant computing platform" dominant? Umm that's why I still see every school, business, and student using a god damn pc/laptop.... No one is using their phone for work besides email and calls. I literally don't know a single company that uses a mobile phone for the majority of their computing. The statement is literally so factually wrong it's pathetic. Who wrote this shit article? Like why does he/she compare a hardware company and a search engine company? So many things so wrong with this piece it actually makes me mad. Not at the writer but at the fact that this idiot has a job writing and gets payed for it when I could have spent like a day and done a much much much better job, with some actual information that is worth writing about. I need to find me one of these mail it in and say **** it jobs writing for an internet company.