Really? Sorry just reading that I laughed out so loud.
Think if you look at console game sales versus PC you will find a different story.
Why PC Gaming is Surging
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Really? Sorry just reading that I laughed out so loud.
Think if you look at console game sales versus PC you will find a different story.
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Really? Sorry just reading that I laughed out so loud.
Think if you look at console game sales versus PC you will find a different story.
he didn't say games though, did he? He compared components to consoles. I still don't think the maths would work out in the favour of pc without including business sales which shouldn't count since we're talking about gaming hardware but you're just attacking a straw man there
Split/same screen multiplayer is dying (I'd guess purely because it doesn't encourage multiple sales!). I'd say that this almost gives PC gaming an advantage - after all, it's much easier to stick your laptop in a bag to take over to your mate's house, than it is to take a 40+ inch TV and console.
Don't forget, at the moment we're at the very end of a console generation - the performance gap between current gen consoles (PS3/360) and PCs is huge, even at a comparable budget. When the next gen consoles release at the end of the year, I think PC gaming will take a hit, as the cost to replicate PS4/XBOne performance on a PC platform will be significantly increased.
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Your response is missing one, vital, yet important aspect to console gaming that PC gaming can not provide, or at least, provide as well, and that is socialising (oh, and cheats). But, given I know you, it doesn't surprise me that you left it out
2 people are not going to be comfortable sat around a 22" monitor split screening a game, and, if your PC is connected to your TV, then it's primary use is as a gaming machine and you may aswell have bought a a console.
This is where consoles excel, especially ones like the Wii and the options of Kinnect. A PC can't offer that level of socialism outside of the multiplayer experience that consoles have offered for years.
And, as I said, hackers. The number of cheats available to PC gamers will always be exponentially higher than that of consoles...
The pc is the most sociable gaming system for the past 11 years+. You can't just ignore online multiplayer games because it doesn't fit in with your point. I have regularly socialised with people from USA/Britain and the rest of Europe since I first played BF1942.
The only niche the consoles have is the Wii/kinect, and given the response by many to the automatic inclusion of the kinect with the xboxone I don't see this as such a huge 'advance'.
And again (and this seriously shows your ignorance of PC games) hackers are no where near as prevalent as a few people make out. 600+ hours on BF3 and I have seen 4 people hacking. PB (for all the stick it gets) picks up the vast majority and its pretty much a non issue.
- but you didn't want a larger choice of games.
- the ability to browse the net with a wireless keyboard and mouse or with your phone.
- You didn't want to stream any on demand internet services anyway.
- you didn't want to connect your pc to your hifi and listen to a vast music collection.
- you wanted to plug in a console and be extremely limited in your choices
You didn't want that wii emulator + wii sensor + wii controllers for when your friends come around either
Really? Sorry just reading that I laughed out so loud.
Think if you look at console game sales versus PC you will find a different story.
Yep, consoles sell a lot more than pre-built PCs, but they don't outsell individual GPUs. Go look it up. Intel/Nvidia/AMD sell more products than Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, hence why the console companies report losses whilst the PC companies report large profits.
Exactly what me & my friends do.
I know a lot more people getting back into their PC gaming now also.
I like PC gaming, but I find that apart from some racing games (which are old now..) or Total War, I'll just use a console.
Average joe won't buy a £1000 PC, then find they have to install this 'stuff' to make it 'work' with the games, then keep updating hardware for the latest games. Which is why consoles won't die out.
Average joe won't buy a £1000 PC, then find they have to install this 'stuff' to make it 'work' with the games, then keep updating hardware for the latest games. Which is why consoles won't die out.
WTF is this installing stuff to make it work rubbish?
I don't even bother keeping my drivers up to date and never have issues the people with issues tend to be the people constantly updating drivers when they have no reason to or constantly using the latest betas.
for me games just work and my pc didn't cost anywhere near 1k and my cpu is haswell too
I don't even bother keeping my drivers up to date and never have issues the people with issues tend to be the people constantly updating drivers when they have no reason to or constantly using the latest betas.
for me games just work and my pc didn't cost anywhere near 1k and my cpu is haswell too
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In the words of AMD senior product marketing manager Marc Diana in an interview with The Verge in June, "We're struggling to find a name for what used to be called porting, because there's not really a problem with that anymore." (In fact, several developers showed demos of their Xbox One and PS4 games on the PC at E3 rather than on the devices themselves.) It's so easy, in fact, that some of the next generation titles may actually come to the PC first as a result, and so this happy arrangement begs the question: why get a console at all?
if this is the case whats to stop someone "cracking" a ps4 and xbox one game to get it to work on a pc?
if this is the case whats to stop someone "cracking" a ps4 and xbox one game to get it to work on a pc?
If you disregard a whole post based on a few digs towards terrible name design (Wii) and terrible hardware (Kinnect) and only choose to bring up those points, doesn't that make you just as bad? Yup.
It's a collection of things. You are very clearly an "us and them" kind of PC gamer. I've seen your whinges about how consoles are ruining everything, and it's very clear you get a sense of superiority over "console gamers" being a PC gamer. Your issues with consoles stem from you being a PC gamer, not because you actually have an issue with the consoles.
I know which is why its a daft statement to say one component = one console.