PC Gaming Future

PC gaming will be dead by the next generation of consoles.  All they have to do is allow a keyboard and mouse (or something comparable) and it's by by PC gaming.Jack_Summersby

Sorry mate, there will always be PC gaming.  With the increase in processor cores, with SLI and Crossfire videocard sets, and with harddrives getting close to terabyte sizes, people are not going to use these monsters to do email and their tax returns.  Consoles are fun, but compared to a PC. It would be as comparing a kid's skateboard to a multi-billion dollar space station. 

[QUOTE="Jack_Summersby"]PC gaming will be dead by the next generation of consoles.  All they have to do is allow a keyboard and mouse (or something comparable) and it's by by PC gaming.t0adphr0g

Sorry mate, there will always be PC gaming.  With the increase in processor cores, with SLI and Crossfire videocard sets, and with harddrives getting close to terabyte sizes, people are not going to use these monsters to do email and their tax returns.  Consoles are fun, but compared to a PC. It would be as comparing a kid's skateboard to a multi-billion dollar space station. 

PC gaming will be dead by the next generation of consoles.  All they have to do is allow a keyboard and mouse (or something comparable) and it's by by PC gaming.Jack_Summersby

PC is going to be forever!!!

i wouldn't say pc gaming is dying, or even slowing down - we just had a hiccup year, when you get the hiccups you don't check yourself into a hospice and wait to die, you just wait for it to pass

1. pc gaming is going through a transition

2. next gen consoles are currently in the spotlight (taking attention away from devs - they are businesses after all and consoles are the hot thing atm)

3. sports games have ALWAYS gotten the shaft on the pc

PC gaming will be dead by the next generation of consoles. All they have to do is allow a keyboard and mouse (or something comparable) and it's by by PC gaming.Jack_Summersby

No PC gaming is NOT dying. Many say these things after a weak year for the PC and it always comes back. Consoles simply have more minor hits on the market then the PC does, but PC game hits are always more popular.

2006 saw the launch of two new consoles and the backdraft from a third, which caused a lot of publishers to try and sponge in as much profit as they could with those mega-selling-even-if-rubbish-just-because-people-need-games launch titles, meaning pc gaming got pushed aside a little

there was also an impending new directx and operating system looming over every pc game on the horizon, which caused developers to put a lot of their work on hold for several reasons i won't pretend i understand

but the result i do understand - publishers wanted to focus on getting console games on the shelves and pc developers wanted to delay their products - the result of that, a damn dry year for pc gaming

it's a shame it all came at once, but that's just how it works - 2007 is a massive year for pc gaming, and most people who go on about the death of pc gaming, well, it's great that they have such strong feelings for something - but they don't know a damn thing about the industry...

i wouldn't say pc gaming is dying, or even slowing down - we just had a hiccup year, when you get the hiccups you don't check yourself into a hospice and wait to die, you just wait for it to pass
A-S_FM

Ok, let look at this really funny and unfound belief.  As a very long time gamer and computer tech this statement has appeared more times than I can even remember. 

As far back as the Commodore 64 using a cassette storage drive the rumor of the demise of Personal Computer Gaming has prevailed... 

Over the course of time it has been proven wrong time after time.  And will continue in the same manner far after any version of the consoles move into extinction. 

Even today if you check previews and posted information you discover than the console games that are released are in their final form, the release of the Expansion pack for Oblivion is one of the few console versions that will have an upgrade option but that is only if you have a broadband connection. 

While checking info on the newest announced Expansion pack for the very popular The Sims 2 series there are new additions for the game that will be released for consoles but in a static version, options such as aging in the game are only available in the PC version of the game. 

Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights 2 both allow PC Gamers to create new worlds, content, etc and add it to the existing game, plus distribute it to other PC Gamers, not an option that I know of for any of the Console versions. 

So the way I see it, if it can be customised and/or new items created by the gamers on a PC, it is very hard to kill something that continues to grow. 

My opinion on consoles is they are a way to get people interested in a particular game, if they would like the complete upgradable and mod creating version then they need to go get a PC with all the bells and whistles and see how the game was meant to look and act.  And if it not released for the PC then they had nothing really worth the over inflated prices that people are paying for the console version and the PC gamer have not really missed anything especially not the price.

Here is my take.
I am a PC gammer first and always will be.  But I do love consoles for sports and racing games.  I have an Xbox 1 and use it for games like Forza, RalliSport Challenge 2, Top Spin, Madden, Fight Night etc.  Sports and especially racing games are just way better on console.  Even a game as good as GTR2 for PC sux because you can not play it at a high level with any controller, you need a wheel.  I know of no PC racing games that come close to the control you get on console with controller.  Another example, I have TOCA 3 on both Xbox and PC.  The Xbox version is 10 times better because of the controller.  So I will always want a consol to play those kinds of sports and racing games.

That said I HATE FPSs etc on console.  I have had an Xbox for 3 years and I hate Halo, et., etc. and never played them.  Basically any game where you have to aim crosshairs with a thumb stick is pure garbage!  I will always play those kinds of games on PC with mous and keyboard the way it should be.

What needs to happen to bring viable versions of sports and racing games to PC is for Microsoft to come out with a standard universal PC controller and for game makers to completely design the games around it.  I would not even be upset if PC game makers blatantly refused to support ANY other controllers except for the MS standard one.  I know that is mean and bad for the other 3rd party controller makers but too bad.  They have had 20+ years to try to make a decent PC controller that works well with the games on PC and have failed.  Its time for MS to step in and take over the whole thing!

If that happened we might finally get games like Forza etc. for PC that actually played as well and the versions on console. Until then I will want both; console for sports and racing, PC for everything else.

It'll boom soon when companys start to take advantage of DX10 and Vista (which they are starting to do and accomplish). PC gaming can only get stronger in the next few years with titles like Quake wars, Hellgate: london, Spore, UT3 and many many more games coming out in the distanced future.
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