Bodhesatva said:
Agreed. Obviously, everyone is biased. I'm biased too: I have openly admitted I prefer the PC and Wii as my two gaming platforms. Those are my preferences. If you prefer gaming on one platform to gaming on other platforms, then you are biased, by definition. The trick is to not let the bias obscure your view of reality, or taint your understanding of facts, as best you possibly can. For example: as much as I love my PC, I candidly admit that by all objective measurements, it is a slowly dwindling platform, and that within 10-20 years it will be as good as dead. I don't like that one bit, but I have to accept that as true. |
I was a big PC gamer before, but it does cost a lot more to keep up with the hardware. Every single Quake, Doom, Halflife, Unreal, Crytec, etc game that comes out requires a new videocard. Blizzard is partly so successful because they produce games that are on the low end of the requirement spectrum.
The main thing keeping PC Gaming alive is the keyboard/mouse input system and the graphics, which I mentioned get expensive to keep up with. However, a major step to PC gaming dying off is coming out in the form of Unreal Tournament 3, a huge game that will support keyboard/mouse input and user created mods.
I wonder if that would be a good thing. PC sales are largely driven by the games industry, but with the consoles becoming more PC-like I'm not sure there's a need for PC games anymore.
What do you think will be the consequences if it does die? Will other sectors be hurt because computer hardware doesn't advance as much? Videocards would be more expensive for the industries that need them, I would think...
