Starcraft 2: first month sales: over 3 million

[KungKras]

HexenLord said:

KungKras said:

HexenLord said:

PC gaming hasn't died. Its merging with consoles. 2 generations from now you will be able to use your home console as a dedicated PC. Eventually the line will be so thin that other huge competitors will join the market.

 

Don't forget, most of the top earning gaming franchises of all time are on the PC. In this case, Blizzard owns most of them, lol.

PC gaming and console gaming are not merging, how would such a scenario even look like?

How would it look? Oh I don't know... USB ports standard on consoles, standard PC/Laptop HDDs in consoles, web browsing, picture/music storage, chat programs, plug and play PC USB keyboards, webcams, built-in wifi..... oh wait, kinda sounds like this gen doesn't it?

 

Next gen will be even more of a meld. The gen after.... well you get the picture. 

That has happened because the Playstation style of consoles disrupted PC gaming and is slowly absorbing its content and features. I wouldn't call that a merge as much as I would call it disruption, or some sort of paracite-host relationship, but definatley not merger. However, that same style of console is now being disrupted, so there is no guarantee that the future of consoles is for them to become even more similar to PC gaming. I just can't imagine a realistic scenario in wich console gaming and PC gaming will become the same, especially not now when SC2 has reinvigorated the RTS market, I expect copycats to try and make their own RTS games soon.