Is PC gaming dying?....

Interesting article. Never really understood all the "PC is dying" talk, even in the wake of two brand new "next gen" consoles being released it's still thriving. Especially when you hear stuff like Riot coming out and saying League of Legends has 27 million people per day playing it, or that article saying the industry is worth over 25 billion or even Steam hitting a new record for peak concurrent users of over 7.3 million.
 
Random Guy said:
If PC gaming has been dying over the last 10 years (pretty much the same tired line we have had repeated to us since the Xbox and PS2 came onto the scene) then it has surely been one of the most successful deaths in history.

Goes to show how much of that talk was retarded nonsense. The PC is the universal platform - console are sidelined into the Western World while the proliferation of the personal computer is expanding ever outwards. Open platforms will and always will continue to destroy closed ones.
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The problem is lack of innovation and investment in PC.

Look where its going. Intel looking at getting out. Hardware sales dropping like a stone. Development non existent. 10 years ago PC was light years ahead of any console for starters multiplayer gaming on console didn't exist. Now PC is pretty much level or imo lagging behind.

I just do not see anything coming through PC which has something that console doesn't. Its not dead yet but another 5 years doing what its doing now it will be.

flibby said:
Steam hitting a new record for peak concurrent users of over 7.3 million.
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Worldwide is 7.3 million really a lot? imo no.
 
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Edinho said:
The problem is lack of innovation and investment in PC.

Look where its going. Intel looking at getting out. Hardware sales dropping like a stone. Development non existent. 10 years ago PC was light years ahead of any console for starters multiplayer gaming on console didn't exist. Now PC is pretty much level or imo lagging behind.
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I think you've kind of missed the point of the thread.
 
Just watch the thread degenerate into a mass of people who haven't actually read it, and just want to hear their own opinion :D
 
I can only see the PC platform growing and growing as it becomes far more accessible. Gone are the days when you had to mess about to get a game to work, it's all very easy today. Even driver installs are now a piece of cake and you even get reminded when its out of date.
 
Yeah, up until you change the OS and find out how to dig on the net for fixes on games that refuse to even start. :)

Anyway, I'm not surprised that much regarding hardware sells going down. A lot of people are moving away for quite some time towards tablets and smartphones as the new hardware upgrade sponges (while ranting that PC hw is expensive - double standards ftw!).
 
Although I own all the consoles accept for Xbone the PC is my first stop for gaming, I only ever buy exclusives for consoles and would quite happily go PC only if all games were available on all systems, alas it's very unlikely I'll ever play Mario or killzine on PC,
 
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The point about the PC tech melting into other devices was interesting. That eventual convergence is the tipping point for the PC market. (Meaning the Desktop in this case)

Good article, raises interesting points to consider.
 
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