Gaming BUSINESS MODEL is changing, no more X360 sucessor

[shio]

slowmo said:

shio said:

Gh0st4lifE said:

shio said:
In other words, PC gaming is going to absorb Consoles. That's what many people have been saying in the last couple of years.

 

Almost the opposite. Multimedia activities are going from the PC to the living room, whether through consoles or through Tivo devices.

PC is a solitary experience (lol), whith a complicated interface, and too much piracy / naughtyness, etc.

 

PS. Why do you think PS3 came up with the lame "This is living" ?

The fact that PCs are shifting into the living rooms only strengthens what I said. And Consoles are becoming more and more like PCs, and if this keeps going they will actually become PCs.

There's a reason why PC gaming is probably increasing faster than the console industry.

 

 

The fact that the percentage of PC sales is being heavily skewed towards laptops every year suggests your being deluded in what you read.  People are not putting PC's in their living room en mass, they're also not buying as many gaming units as in the past either. 

By what metric is PC gaming increasing faster than the console industry?  Last figures I heard had PC game sales down 14% last year yet console sales up around 20%.  Neither of those figures included downloadable figures obviously but its still hard to understand how this is definitave proof of PC gaming increasing.

I love my PC for gaming and bought COD4, L4D and TF2 to play it on because of the superiority over my consoles so I have no bias when I say PC gaming isn't growing faster than consoles.

Retail is a very small part of PC gaming - It was only 30% of PC gaming revenue in 2007, and it should be much smaller today. This is due to the shifting of revenue to digital.

Digital and Online Revenue is increasing much, much faster than the console industry. PC's Digital Distribution Services such as Steam and Gamersgate increase over 100% yearly, and China's Online Gaming Revenue was up over 75% in 2008.

Hell, even EA's CEO came out and said PC Gaming was growing faster than teh Console Industry,