Well when they artificially slow down the evolution of technology (lets just make small improvements because people will still buy our stuff) because games slowed down the graphics evolution thanks to old consoles. Noone is going to buy computers.
I mean gamers are like the biggest group of PC buyers. Sure there is companies etc but usually they buy a cheap office PC and thats it for 5 years. Whereas Gamers bought PCs like every 2 years.
Seriously when you bought a high end computer in 2008 you actually had no reason to buy another one. PLaying the newest game ever with 35FPS or 50 FPS doesnt make "much" difference. Or changing the settings from ultra high to just high.
Sure there is those people that always want to have the best possible experience but everyone I know didnt buy a computer since 2009. Me and all of my friends usually bought a new computer every 2 years because we had a reason to do so.
There is this occasional game like GTA4 that runs shitty on most old PCs because of the CPU limitation but thats it. My 2008 NVIDIA 8800GT(oced) can play Borderlands 2 with highest settings with around 40 FPS in 1080p.
The problem is that Nvidia and AMD etc thought that they could milk the customers with their slow evolving products. But they somewhat killed the market on their own. Compare the average 150 dollar card from 2002 to 2009 and you will always see massive performance boosts. stuff like 6600GT vs 7600GT vs 8800GT then with the arrival of the 9800GT and GTX200 series it drastically slowed down. You either had to pay 3x the money to get the same performance boost or you got 20% boost for the same money....
I wanted to buy a new computer for Skyrim because my PC falls to like 26 FPS occasionally but then I thought: WOW when I think about it buying new hardware is totally stupid you waste hundreds of dollars and then you have like +14 FPS?!? no thanks!. I will wait for the PS4 nextbox to come out and 1 year later everything will be affordable and super fast like it was before the consoles slowed down everything.
