Quote: ""The PC Games Market is dieing! Because in my opinion more games are being sold on the consoles.. end of argument.""
I had a lot more points than just that. Maybe you should go back and read my previous threads prior to passing judgement? First of all, in terms of popularity, PC gaming will NEVER again be as popular as consoles are, and that's a simple fact. Most people don't care to upgrade their computer every time a new game comes out. They don't want to screw around with downloading patches and fixes and worrying about compatability issues and ubgrading their peripherals to offer better control during games. Consoles are cheaper and easier across the board, and cheap & easy are fundamental to most consumers. And before someone says "consoles aren't cheaper than PC's," you have to keep in mind that Joe Q. Public doesn't know how to build his own PC, or even upgrade it. He'll end up buying a pre-built PC, then he'll have to upgrade it to play the newer games. You don't need to upgrade consoles, and you don't need to know anything about their internal workings to play games on them. People are lazy... I'd hate to say it, but it's true, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out, either. The most constant trend in technology over the past, say, forty years or so, is that people want to do things easier, faster, and cheaper. Consoles offer that over PC's. Maybe not to nerds like us
, but to the average person who doesn't know what RAM stands for? Why on earth would someone like that (whose normal in terms of how much they know about PCs) want to go through all of the hassle to keep upgrading their computer every other year, when they could just buy a console that lasts them six years?
Obviously the PC outsells any console, and all of the consoles combined for that matter. But for gaming? Wrong. Most PC's are used for business applications and for personal communications. Out of all of the PC's in the world, how many of them can actually handle the high-end needs of a modern PC game? Take for instance BF2. How many computers, the world over, could install and play BF2 right now, without any compatability issues or anything? I doubt we could find this figure, but if it were more than 3% I'd be absolutely shocked.
And again, let me point out that the big development companies have all started to ween off of PC gaming. Their pushing most of their resources towards console gaming because, and I'm saying this yet again, consoles are where the money is. The market for PC gaming is shrinking. Indie games will obviously outlive mainstream PC games, but with less-than-remarkable sales, there's no real money in independent PC game development, and so we'll start to see hardware companies focus more of their attention on the multimedia industries and even the console industries, pulling money and growth out of PC gaming advancement. Most independent games don't challenge a PC's capabilities like mainstream games do, and they don't make much money in comparison, so why would hardware companies keep developing new gaming peripherals and game-oriented non-development video cards for PCs? It would make more sense monetarily for them to spend their money, time, and effort on making new equipment for the film industry and for console game development. Or at least that's what common sense points to.
Raven, you're not looking at this debate objectively (then again, when was the last time you did that?
). Each generation, consoles steal away more of the marketshare from PC's. Why is that? It's because consoles are, to the vast majority of consumers, cheaper to purchase, easier to use, and faster to get playing on. If the PC gaming industry wants to keep up, it needs to make dramatic changes to the way it does business, and that probably won't happen. Stop forcing people to upgrade their computers on a comparatively constant basis. Stop releasing games that are less-developed than console games, thus requiring patches to be installed regularly. I'm a huge fan of PC games just as most of you are... but nothing lasts forever, and PC games had a fantastic ride that unfortunately will come to an end at some point during our lifetimes.
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