Do you believe PC Gaming is dying?

[MikeB]

meehan666 said:

MikeB said:
@ brazylianwisnia

Agreed, the most beautiful games are nowadays on the PS3 and I think this trend is likely to continue for quite some time due to the many first party exclusives.

I know of a vivid PC gamer, who was hyping how his PC could do a game in 100+ FPS and how he could not live without that. I locked to FPS to much lower than that once and he didn't notice. He also had a very little monitor compared to my much bigger 1080p HDTV and was listening to (fake, not really surround) 5.1 speakerset (more like a 2.1 speakerset divided over 5 speakers + subwoofer).

Why do console gamers always mention this? It is not like having the option of connecting to your A/V receiver/big screen tv/home theater system is exclusive to consoles. I have my PC connected to my A/V receiver, just like my consoles are; and yes, on the 106" screen I play on, there is a big difference between games running at real 1080p on my PC and console games running at 720p. 

I was referring to a specific person.

Although I think most PC gamers still play their games on a monitor. IMO big gaming PCs aren't as suitable for the living room, many PC gamers want to use a mouse and for this a desk seems more suitable as well. I keep my PC in a seperate room and not in the living room (17 inch monitor and stuck with 2.0 audio because this best suits my desk), I rarely use it for gaming or watching movies nowadays.

My biggest concern was lacking mouse control with consoles. With regard to FPS games I am pleasantly suprised how fast I got used to modern gamepads, actually I now prefer this control method for first person shooters. I dislike the constant unrealistic hopping going on in many or most online PC shooters and I got used to vibration feedback while shooting guns.

I grew up with mouse gaming as a kid, I loved being able to play the original Lemmings with two mice multi-player on the Amiga, sadly such a thing was never possible on the PC. Puzzle games and realtime strategy games (like the origal Settlers or Populous 2 games on the Amiga) are IMO still by far best suited for mouse control. I think it's sad game developers still don't seem to include this option on the PS3, it should be a really simple thing to include...