shio said:
The PC vs Consoles situation is different from the Blu-Ray vs DVD, because of 2 reasons: 1- PC games are far cheaper than console games. Not only is the average PC game much cheaper than the average Console game, but it also drops price much faster. You are guaranteed to cover some of your PC's cost, if not all of it. 2- PCs are a necessity, not a luxury. People need PCs for work, which gives PC an incredible advantage over consoles. |
no it's not:
if you are going to use the PC as mainly a game machine its entertainment than it is right along with pretty much movies and game console's.
the problem with thinking PC's are a necessity , is that does not relate to game's unless you are a developer!, Its only a necessity if you need the PC for a majority of work, even then if you do your main use would be work and if that's the case you should not have enough time to play game's four hour's on end if the PC is that important for work!.
that's the big problem with the IDEA of " PC game's are cheaper than Console game's " that is pretty much a myth, simple problem that even Some of the PC game's are right near the cost of Game console game's if not the exact same cost. Now it's not if you use steam, but the disc based game's are near the same. and while the price does drop on PC game's faster you have to wonder why is that?
simple:
no longer is the PC market for game's the #1 market and most likely never will be ever again, due to mainly there is more money to be made in the game console market than the PC market for Game's, because playing Game's on the PC is mainly a function that the majority do not use as their main Game machine. Due to that very reason you stated.
PC's are mainly used for other thing's more important than game's:
and if there is gaming majority of those gamer's use it for game's like Zuma.
the PC game's hardcore market has shrunk and most likely never regain the big market share it once had.
mainly due to cost.
and that is why Game console's are where their at right now , many hardcore gamer's use these game machine's over their PC for their game's machine, just because of cost and mainly that is what the whole concept of a game console is for.
you may than point out that well the game console's are getting to be more PC like , than what will happen.
It will not matter Game console's are "MEDIA CENTRIC" PC's while PC's are not , yes you can indeed mainly use a PC as "Media centric" but that's the point is it not. what are you going to use your PC for!
if its entertainment, That's fine and dandy but in the market the PC is mainly not directed toward ENTERTAINMENT it's mainly for Work
game console's are targeted toward ENTERTAINMENT.
that's why Media center PC's do not have the larger market share. the majority of consumer's do not even know the fact that PC's are able to do the thing's that many people in the tech industry know PC's can do pretty much as any other function. many consumer's just use the PC as for EMAIL, WEB BROWSING the very basic function's due to many people not knowing how.
it's pretty much non awareness of what PC's are capable of is mainly the problem with many of the consumer's.
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