Why did E3 show nothing to forward pc gaming

[Walkerie]

Splinter Cell Conviction
Ruse
Ghostbusters
Star Wars: TOR
Monkey Island (remake and new game)
Left For Dead 2
Assassin's Creed 2

Star wars looks to me the oNly thiNg worth meNtioNiNg

 

[Shamikebab]

gaming is not dead microsoft just wont invest in clearly the best platform the pc

You're posts are hilarious, I really hope you are joking

 

[snowdog]

Only Ghostbusters from that list sounds interesting to me, rest is just meh.


Roll on a new good strategy and a new sim game for pc...

 

[Duran]

are you serious?

could you name a few?

 

[Lightnix]

I love how people treat games that are on both the PC and 360 but on nothing else as if they're on the other consoles as well and start declaring both platforms dead. To be fair there were quite a few Microsoft platform exclusives.

Also Forza 3 is a 360 exclusive.

 

[Streeteh]

Why did the PC get less coverage? Because there isn't a multi billion dollar company that owns the PC as a concept. The PS3 is owned by Sony, the 360 is owned by Microsoft and the Wii is owned by Nintendo. No one has ownership of the PC so no one is going to fork out the huge sums of money to show off what the platform is capable of in a press conference.

At least, that's how i view it.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Linux is not user friendly, it is not as professional as Windows and it doesn't run mainstream software, either games or anything else. That is the main reason why most people don't and never will use it as their main OS.

It doesn't run mainstream software because it doesn't command a big enough market share, and it doesn't command a big enough market share because it doesn't run mainstream software.

All that is needed is a few big developers to release the odd Linux compatible game.

 

[dirtydog]

It doesn't run mainstream software because it doesn't command a big enough market share, and it doesn't command a big enough market share because it doesn't run mainstream software.

All that is needed is a few big developers to release the odd Linux compatible game.

It will still never take off because it isn't user friendly like Windows, and it comes across as cheap, amateurish and unfinished compared to Windows (in my opinion).

 

[CliffyBiro]

It will still never take off because it isn't user friendly like Windows, and it comes across as cheap, amateurish and unfinished compared to Windows (in my opinion).

Whereas, in my opinion, Ubuntu is one step towards being a contender for being a household name. This has been made clear by Dell shipping new machines with the option of Ubuntu pre-installed.

Building on Ubuntu, there is then Linux Mint. Possibly the most user friendly Linux variant out there with pretty much everything working right out of the box.

 

[Azagoth]

I can't believe you fell for the OP, he's an obvious troll!

 

[dirtydog]

Whereas, in my opinion, Ubuntu is one step towards being a contender for being a household name. This has been made clear by Dell shipping new machines with the option of Ubuntu pre-installed.

Building on Ubuntu, there is then Linux Mint. Possibly the most user friendly Linux variant out there with pretty much everything working right out of the box.

Can you set your screen res & a refresh rate over 60 without hacking config files in a text editor yet?

 

[CliffyBiro]

Can you set your screen res & a refresh rate over 60 without hacking config files in a text editor yet?

Yep. Well, in Mint anyway.

 

[barmyllama]

e3 is for all gaming crysis was first found there pc exclusive coore noob shh
pc is not dead anyone who sess that is dumb tbh pc will always have a place in gaming its just not a fore front of corporate noobs probly like u who are like wow look at this game it owns when really it sucks balls
bunch of clueless ***** who pick up a controller and think its the best thing ever

I will ask the same question.

"English motherf***er, do you speak it?"

Why did the PC get less coverage? Because there isn't a multi billion dollar company that owns the PC as a concept. The PS3 is owned by Sony, the 360 is owned by Microsoft and the Wii is owned by Nintendo. No one has ownership of the PC so no one is going to fork out the huge sums of money to show off what the platform is capable of in a press conference.

At least, that's how i view it.

I agree.

 

[rypt]

Why did the PC get less coverage? Because there isn't a multi billion dollar company that owns the PC as a concept. The PS3 is owned by Sony, the 360 is owned by Microsoft and the Wii is owned by Nintendo. No one has ownership of the PC so no one is going to fork out the huge sums of money to show off what the platform is capable of in a press conference.

I beg to differ, Microsoft "owns" the PC market/platform with DX10.1 and DX11 - even before in the DX8/9 days it was only ever a two horse race really with OpenGL and DirectX - but OpenGL has all but died unless 3.0 (or 3.5) comes out with some kickass features.

The other thing is that all the companies keep saying how "amazing" their new games look (just listen to FM3 info about how awesome the graphics are; same for GT5) ... and yet their best "amazing" offerings pale in comparison to what a PC optimised game can do.

If PC gaming was not a huge market why is it that ATi and NVidia are being able to sell their decent cards like hot-cakes.

 

[barmyllama]

I beg to differ, Microsoft "owns" the PC market/platform with DX10.1 and DX11 - even before in the DX8/9 days it was only ever a two horse race really with OpenGL and DirectX - but OpenGL has all but died unless 3.0 (or 3.5) comes out with some kickass features.

The other thing is that all the companies keep saying how "amazing" their new games look (just listen to FM3 info about how awesome the graphics are; same for GT5) ... and yet their best "amazing" offerings pale in comparison to what a PC optimised game can do.

If PC gaming was not a huge market why is it that ATi and NVidia are being able to sell their decent cards like hot-cakes.

But Microsoft don't sell Pc's at a loss in order to make the money back through licensing games.

They have to push the Xbox 360 platform to recoup their losses from hardware sales, they don't loose any money from the PC side of their business.

 

[Goldfingers]

Why did E3 show nothing to forward Sega Saturn, because its dead, get over it.

Well said! hahaha

 

[HangTime]

I understand what the OP is saying, there really isn't anything "NEW" and fresh to get your teeth into. Something that breaks the mould and gives PC gaming a new direction for games.

That said, quite often many of the 'new' or 'groundbreaking' games ultimately end up leaving people sorely disappointed when they are finally released. Spore would be a good example... nobody can deny that in it's early stages it was a fairly fresh concept, but at the end of the day, common consensus seems to be that the 'tried-and-tested' formula used for CoD4 turned out a better game.

 

[alex24]

Indeed, give the public what they want (and make some money in the process!).

 

[Audigex]

Piracy.

A huge proportion of PC games are pirated, a very small proportion of xbox/ps3/wii games are pirated.

It really doesn't take a genius to work out that they're not going to pump money into making games that as many people steal as buy.

 

[Streeteh]

If PC gaming was not a huge market why is it that ATi and NVidia are being able to sell their decent cards like hot-cakes.

I never said that PC gaming was not a large market, i simply said no one company 'owns' PC gaming.

Microsoft don't make profit on every sale of a PC game, they do when a 360 game sells. There's more to benefit from when advertising console games as not only do they get the hardware sale, they also get a reasonable percentage of every game sale, regardless of whether they produced it or not.

It's all well and good to shoot down my explanation, but at least give one of your own to replace it. If MS really want to push gaming on the PC, why aren't they?