Consoles are this eras PCs

[shio]

richardhutnik said:

shio said:

PC is reeeaaallyyy dieing here!!! PC has never been big on sports games, so there no loss there.

I mean, you have to think before calling PC dead when PC has more games in development than all console combined - 70% of games are being developed on PC, only 43% are developed for consoles.

Dude, this is getting VERY old:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2339845,00.asp

PC Game Sales Plunge in 2008; Consoles Soar

Total sales of video game hardware, software and peripherals topped $22 billion in 2008, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Video-game sales reached $11.7 billion, a 22.9 percent increase over the prior year.

PC game revenue, however, dropped by 23 percent.

The numbers also painted a somewhat grim picture of the PC games market. PC game sales reached $701.4 million or 29.1 million units, while console sales were $8.9 billion or 189 million units. Portable software sales were $2.1 billion, or 79.5 million units.

 

Economic activity is NOT in PCs this day and age.  Yes, people produce, in abundance, certain niches, but consoles have more genres of games that people want to play.  That is reality.  Also, more MAJOR productions of games are there.

That is the reality, no matter how much you don't want to think about it.  Yes, PC gaming business is down from over $1 billion.  Your only argument is massive-multiplayer gamers.  And those are increasingly free products that designers hope will be supported with ad revenue.

wow, it's like every other week there's someone using NPD as a valid source of PC's health!!  Have you been living under a rock? The figures of PC's NPD retail have been debated over and over again, and those figures are meaningless - PC is transitioning to online, and even NPD's representatives said so themselves. In US, NPD estimated that PC makes more money in subscriptions than Retail, and if you add Digital Distribution, Advertisement, Microtransactions, etc... it completely dwarfs Retail.

DFC actually estimated that only 30% of PC's revenue was from Retail in 2007 - Today the difference should be even  greater. And PC's online is probably growing even faster than the console market: Steam grew 150% in 2007, and Online Gaming in China increased over 75% last year.

Consoles do not have "more genres". Where are the Simulation games? Adventure games? How many RPGs? And Strategy games? etc...