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MasterCeddy on 22 January 2017
SvennoJ said:
"the western appetite for PC gaming systems costing thousands of dollars is strong."
But but, pc gaming is cheap!

Good news, prices should keep coming down. I admit I was looking around at a VR gaming laptop a few days ago, gtx1070, 512GB SSD. Then I had a reality check, CAD 2949 (excl headset). Resident Evil 7 is out in 3 days! PSVR will do.

Build yourself a small PC with handles, you can get one for around 2000$ with these specs. I own a gtx 1070 and a 500 GB SSD and I never paid 3000$ for my hardware in Canada. Save money.



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exclusive_console on 22 January 2017

PC gaming will always be there. But the money is in consoles and mobile I think. PC market is extra incentive for devs



 

Chazore on 22 January 2017
exclusive_console said:
PC gaming will always be there. But the money is in consoles and mobile I think. PC market is extra incentive for devs

It's really not just a Little sideline things for devs to maybe look at now and then, not going by the revenue and oevrall profit that the platform itself makes, as well as what goes towards it as well. I find it odd how you'll hand it to mobile for it being the top dog of all earnings, yet not PC which is clearly in second. 


As far as things go, the money is in all 3.



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Jranation on 22 January 2017

Thats right! PC is still the best! Endless library of games! Free Online Multiplayer!



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Turkish on 22 January 2017

"Remember how we used to hear all the time about PC gaming dying? "

Yeah around 10 years ago, now all we hear are people saying "remember how it was dying?".



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toot1231 on 22 January 2017

i made the change to PC in 2014
dont regret it at all. its better in every way



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VAMatt on 22 January 2017
SvennoJ said:
"the western appetite for PC gaming systems costing thousands of dollars is strong."
But but, pc gaming is cheap!

Good news, prices should keep coming down. I admit I was looking around at a VR gaming laptop a few days ago, gtx1070, 512GB SSD. Then I had a reality check, CAD 2949 (excl headset). Resident Evil 7 is out in 3 days! PSVR will do.

That price is crazy.  We can get something like that in the States for $1500 anytime, maybe $1300 on sale.  



OdinHades on 22 January 2017

I wouldn't read too much into it. While the PC is definitely a healthy platform, I doubt the growth is going through the roof. Asia is a big factor, but especially in the west all I see are the effects of the Intel/Nvidia monopoly in highend hardware. Prices have skyrocketed in that segment and so an increase in revenue doesn't necessesarly mean that the numbers of sold items are also rising. In fact, I heard some days ago that Nvidia sold less 1070 and 1080 than expected and that that's the reason they're holding back thr 1080 Ti.

But anyway, all I'm trying to say is let's not get ahead of ourselves.



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deskpro2k3 on 22 January 2017

what if I told you these are just the same people upgrading their hardware.



Just like everytime new hardware comes out.



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eva01beserk on 22 January 2017

This to me sounds like pr more than anything. The real indicator of pc gaming growing for me would me increase software revenue. More gamers means more game purchases. More hardware could just mean the same people upgrading, or higher cost of componets. As far as I know, console game sales have always dwarfed the pc game sales.



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