Is PC gaming dead?

PC Gaming is the way forward if you ask me. Just look at the host of titles you can get that just wont work properly on a console. I'm talking deep meaningful games not the shooters that crop up every week.

I'm surprised you sold the laptop, you owe me £50 in that case as I still have mine :p

But you should definitely re-invest, but only if the wife agrees this time eh? ;)
 
I sit on my x-box every now and again for half hour or so, then get bored with the games I have.

but on the PC, there was always something else to do in games, I could sit there and play CSS for hours and still come back for more, I played WoW for like 4 months, and throughly enjoyed it. I have never had a console game that I can keep playing for 4 months and do something prety much different on it every day.

PC gaming is far from dead, in fact I think now its really taking off. The games being released just keep being better and better (some are worse and a large dissapointment lol, wont mention anything in paticular "cough" Half Life 2 "cough")

Some of the newer single player games have been a bit dissapointing, not graphicaly wise but the storylines seem to be the same old thing and a bit repetitive, the companies producing games do seem to be focusing on the multiplayer aspect of games.

The majority of the online gaming community are great people, (Althought there are a lot of complete *****)
 
Personally I think in the long term, we will see various technology forms become intergrated and so instead of having a TV, a games console, a hi-fi, a PC etc, we will have a single 'entertainment centre' which has a high speed internet connection and can perform all the above duties (with additional wireless add-ons like fancy display screens, speakers and so forth). I'd imagine that upgradability will be much easier for the average user than it is now, more in like with slotting in a replacement component. PC gaming will become part of this too.

That said, a 'jack of all trades' device might not appeal to the hardcore gamers who want the absolute latest and greatest hardware at their disposal. It's just a question of whether their needs and niche market remains large and strong enough in the face of larger market forces.

Moving a bit off topic here but what I'm driving at is that PC gaming is probably here to stay, just not as we know it, in my vision it will become integrated with console gaming.

edit: It's certainly not dead at the moment however - more and more people own PCs capable of gaming than ever before.
 
For me personally, console gaming is closer to being dead than PC gaming. Over the last year I spent at uni I used my PS2 and Xbox once or twice, never any serious gaming. I played many, many more PC games.
 
Frank Butcher said:
Yes, is gradually increasing more and more as well. Will peak with the expansion I imagine.
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for some reason it makes me want to play WOW, i did the 10day thing, and it didnt grab me, but for some reason its starting to now....2months later :eek:
 
PC games just have a different feel to them. I like games with lots of depth which console gaming dosn't really offer. For FPS's its essential to have a mouse most of the time (although tbh I loved Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the '64).

We still have the biggest and best back catologue of games than any console as well! It would be incorrect just to judge pc gaming on new titles IMO. Theres plenty of PC titles I'll always come back to that keeps my pc gaming alive:

Alpha Centauri
HL Saga
Deus Ex
Rainbow 6: Raven Shield
Age of Empires 2
Baldurs Gate Saga
Farcry etc
Mafia
GTA

New game wise I'd say Farcry, Half Life 2, Civ 4, AOE 3, BF2, DOW & WOW are all stand out games.

In the pipeline: Crysis, Stalker, DNF etc.
 
I think PC gaming has a lot of life left in it yet. I think ultimately we'll move to a one box solution that does everything, plugged into a hi-def display, that will merge the simplicity of consoles and A.V. entertainment with the benefits of current PC use like Internet and multitasking. But I think that scenario has hit a bit of a stumbling block, as the PS3 has shown. They're still fighting over which next gen optical tech will take off, it's proving difficult and expensive to manufacture, and there seems to be a backlash over the cost and delays, with many people jumping on the Nintendo bandwagon - a console which is cheap, simple, fun and all about the games.

The key to the wii is that it isn't trying to be a PC (whoa - that would make a cool slogan :eek: :p ) and I don't think people will think of having just a wii or just a PC.....why not have both? I think if the PS3 crashes and burns (news of more delays today...) then consoles may follow the Nintendo lead and get back to basics. Microsoft will obviously try and fight this, but they'll ultimately make their decision on what's good money for them - and if they see Nintendo make a ton of cash and Sony take a big hit it might cause them to stop and think about their one-box vision of the future......for a while at least.
 
Andr3w said:
for some reason it makes me want to play WOW, i did the 10day thing, and it didnt grab me, but for some reason its starting to now....2months later :eek:
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If you can afford to, id definatly recommend you try the full game, the trial is fairly restrictive as in a level cap and takes away certain elements of the game as well. You get 30 days free when you buy anyway so you can always cancel before they take your £9 away.
 
I love the fact that I can stay so well connected on the PC with my friends via MSN and listen to any music i want when I'm playing games. Consoles can't really offer me this.
 
InwardSinging said:
A while back I sold my gaming PC, replaced it with a laptop that i couldnt really game with, changed back to a Dell 1710M gaming laptop, sold that, and have gone back to a non gaming laptop.

However, I cant seem to shake the desire to own a high end PC again, but when I look at the games that have came out since i last played a pc game in anger, i dont appear to have missed much, I know its the summer, but there seems to be a real lack of killer PC titles up and coming.

Conroe has me excited about PC's, but is it worth putting back together a killer rig for gaming again?
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spore
unreal tournament 2007
battle for midway
battlefield 2142
supreme commander <--- been waiting 9 years for that one...

all comming out between october 06 and may 07 and they are all incredible games!

the PC games industry in America alone is woth 3Billion dollars. its not dead, just sleeping at the moment as we have a new OS and a new DX format just around the corner.
 
HangTime said:
Just out of interest, do you need to register card details for the 10-day WoW trial?
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Yes you do but it doesn't charge you even thought you do put them in.
 
Curio said:
I think PC gaming has a lot of life left in it yet. I think ultimately we'll move to a one box solution that does everything, plugged into a hi-def display, that will merge the simplicity of consoles and A.V. entertainment with the benefits of current PC use like Internet and multitasking. But I think that scenario has hit a bit of a stumbling block, as the PS3 has shown. They're still fighting over which next gen optical tech will take off, it's proving difficult and expensive to manufacture, and there seems to be a backlash over the cost and delays, with many people jumping on the Nintendo bandwagon - a console which is cheap, simple, fun and all about the games.

The key to the wii is that it isn't trying to be a PC (whoa - that would make a cool slogan :eek: :p ) and I don't think people will think of having just a wii or just a PC.....why not have both? I think if the PS3 crashes and burns (news of more delays today...) then consoles may follow the Nintendo lead and get back to basics. Microsoft will obviously try and fight this, but they'll ultimately make their decision on what's good money for them - and if they see Nintendo make a ton of cash and Sony take a big hit it might cause them to stop and think about their one-box vision of the future......for a while at least.
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I agree entirely with the second paragraph; consoles should be simple. If you want something that does everything a PC does, maybe, shock horror, you should get a PC?

However, I don't agree with the first paragraph in that I don't think PCs and consoles will ever "merge" into a single box. The entire point in a gaming console is that, strangley enough, it is designed solely for gaming. In progressing, and adding more features, all they're actually doing is turning, slowly but surely, into PCs. The problem with this is that complexity is a necessity when you want to have all this functionality; if they're trying to make consoles the electronic "centre" of the home, then they're going to need to be able to do all sorts of things, and not just assume that you want to play a game when the console is turned on. All of a sudden, people are buying consoles not just to use them for gaming. Maybe people very rarely want to play games, maybe just old games; they won't want to have to pay loads for the latest hardware, so there'll end up being different hardware available, etc. Hopefully you can see where I'm going here; you've ended up with a PC, not a console.
 
It's as dead as a dodo. Nothing at all of interest. I can't remember the last time a game was even released on PC. I can't even remember what PC stands for, let alone this gaming lark after it.

I remember that PC gaming had died last year, and the year before that and the year before that though. Must have lots of twins I guess? :confused:
 
what ever happened to that thread we had last month about PC gaming being dead.
oh wait it went the same way as the LAST HUNDRED THREADS WITH THAT TITAL!
 
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