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albionus on 30 August 2007
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Gamerace said:
OriGin said:
I'm a PC gamer, i've spent thousands on my PC over the past years, enough to buy both a PS3 and Xbox360 a few times over.

Why am I supposedly going to go to the PS3?

I've purchased the Wii over the 360 and PS3 and i'm a PC fanboy - almost everything on 360 is coming to PC, the only thing that interests me that hasn't is Halo 3.

PS3 - MGS4

I don't think PC gamers will move to the PS3 honestly, if anything they will gravitate more to the Wii.

 There will always be a few dedicated PC purists, but honestly, how many people can/will afford to spend the thousands you do?  As that number dwindles, so do the number and variety of AAA games for PCs.

I agree though, PC gamers (myself included) will get a Wii before anything else.  Can't do Wii Sports with a mouse/keyboard. 


You don't have to spend thousands to keep up with the 360 and PS3.  The multi-thousand dollar bleeding edge PC was already doing things PS3 and 360 can't before they even launched.  You don't need to spend anywhere near that today to top the PS360 much less just equal them.  Every year that price will get less and less.

The main problem with this analysis is that dedicated PC gamers will not accept the downgrade required to enter the console market exclusively.  Should they want to enter the console market why would they do it at $500 or $700 to get downgraded versions of games they could play on the PC?  If they do as others have noted it would be for the cheaper Wii and its new style of play.   Other PC gamers either just want to play one game (e.g., WoW, EQ, or CS), one genre that doesn't translate to consoles well (e.g., MMO, 4X, RTS), or they just play flash games and the Sims on their 4 year old computer so why would they spend more than what they probably paid for the PC so they can play FPS', RPG's, and sports games?