The future of pc gaming

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Well at least the future that the CEO of Crytek sees.

When I started developing games for the PC nearly 20 years ago, both the Commodore 64 and the Schneider CPC 6128 were incredibly popular. Since then, the PC platform and its market have totally changed and I saw several trends coming and going.
Within the next five years, the PC market is in my opinion growing and declining at the same time. While the market for Online PC Games (I mean Free-2-Play Games, Social Games and Casual Games) is continuously growing, the retail PC Games market is declining. Over the past two years it became apparent that more and more people play all kinds of online games and lots of the former retail PC Gamers switched to console games. By changing their consumption attitudes, the consumers "force" developers to rethink their strategies, thus, to some degree..
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All leading PC game developers will serve the free-to-play market and turn their backs on the retail market.
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more here:
http://kotaku.com/5674608/the-future-of-pc-gaming-according-to-the-creator-of-crysis

Is the future of pc gaming social games and F2P? This is the same guy that think crysis 2 on consoles will sell 10 million copies.
 
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RedStarRiot said:
Another pc dying thread. Yeah crysis 2 will probably shift not far off 10 million on hype alone with it being on all platforms and managing to "squeeze crysis" on
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i would be surprised if it sells 3 million. There is nowhere mentioned in the article that pc gaming is dying btw. If it was dying it wouldnt have a future...
 
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is this the same guy who blamed the lack of sales of crysis on pc was due piracy? and not the fact that is was basically marketed as a glorified benchmark software. I did buy the special edition dont know if I'll bother this time.
 
he has some points, but a lot of pc gamers went and got a console simply to be able to play games that will never come to pc and thats kinda always been the case.

just look at starcraft - its clear to see that there is a market if its a pc specific game and has had some care and attention put into it alittle.
 
Doesn't this kind of fly in the face of the reports a few months back about sales of gaming pc components were going up if anything?

I think its right though consoles are more "mass market" than PC's but we seem to get most stuff released albeit sometimes later than the console equivalents, for example the GTA series has always been later on PC (GTA 3 onwards) its clear its maybe not the first focus for most developers but its clear there is a big userbase of people still buying PC games, that said I think online delivery like Steam is probably going to replace hard copies sold in store eventually, its already happening, most of my local GAME stores have no PC games left on sale sadly!
 
Typical boring predicatable crap

End of the day

AMD, Intel, Nvidia and all the others, do you think they are worried, or if they've noticed a downtown in sales of high end hard ware?

Why is OCUK still here? Surely if its biggest area for sales was "dying" it would be going down the pan?

And, why are all the main titles coming to PC? All of them? Go through them all, they are all coming to PC and some cases the devs have listened, DICE and Battlefield 3 for example will be optimising the PC version, the list goes on

It all boils down to one thing

Fact vs Internet BS

Fact wins for me, i'll go ahead and spend anthother £600 on my PC between now and Christmas and i'm not concerned in the slightest
 
Eurogamer covered this already, they made a good point that PC gaming only looks like it's dying because everyone keeps looking at retail sales figures and never counting digital sales. Valve and Blizzard keep trying to remind everyone that more PC games are selling than ever, but who wants to make 'PC gaming is fine' threads? 'It's dying omg' sounds a lot more interesting, even after the 51st time.

Because digital sales are never included in sales chart figures, it always paints a bleaker picture than it really does. Steam alone has sold literally tens of million games every year but due to publishers' requests, Valve can't reveal the real numbers.
 
Relentless81 said:
Typical boring predicatable crap

End of the day

It all boils down to one thing

Fact vs Internet BS

Fact wins for me, i'll go ahead and spend anthother £600 on my PC between now and Christmas and i'm not concerned in the slightest
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Man who is prepared to put his money where his mouth is. I like your style.
 
I have actually found that as I have become older I have become more interested in PC gaming. I hardly touch PS3 now. Many years ago I played intensly on my mega drive,ps1,ps2 and then a fair bit on ps3. Since building my first pc, I have become so addicted to it (lol) that I don't give much thought to my ps3. I find it more interesting looking at steam offers etc.

I do hope that PC gaming continues to thrive. :)
 
Do any of the nay sayers have any firm figures? If anything I believe that more PC games are being sold year on year than has ever been are they not? Digital distribution is killing RETAIL sales. PC gaming is far from dead
 
I think PC sales are thriving because of digital distribution. It is becoming harder and harder to pirate games and games are on offer all the time via Steam for example, these factors combined in my opinion have done the world of good for PC gaming.

The future is bright for PC Gaming as I see it.

Note: It is a shame that a lot of PC games are restricted technically by current gen consoles however, what we should bare in mind is that games ported over to PC or vice versa, are most of the time far superior on the PC, Fallout 3 was the nail in the coffin of my 360, the difference was so dramatic even without mods.
 
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