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brendude13 on 31 May 2011
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sethnintendo said:
brendude13 said:
Kudistos Megistos said:
brendude13 said:

Gaming has always dominated on consoles, it isn't like they just barged in and "ruined teh grafix!".

Nobody had a computer in the NES / SNES era, the PS1 and PS2 sold into the hundreds of millions and it seems like the PS3, Wii and XBOX 360 are doing just aswell.

The matter of the fact is, without consoles, PC gaming wouldn't exist or be as big as it is now. Your "12 points" were pretty poor IMO.

How is it possible to get so much wrong in such a short post?

Feel free to prove me wrong, everything I stated was fact.

I had a computer during the NES/SNES era.  They were called 286/386/486.  They mainly used DOS operating system to play games on and there were such classic like Command & Conquer, Magic Carpet, Sim City, Sim Theme Park, Warcraft, etc...  Just because you or your friends didn't have a computer during that era didn't mean others weren't gaming on the PC.  DOS gaming was decently popular back in the day and not some barely used system.  My most found memories of PC gaming would be playing against my friends on a 14.4 or 28k modem with games such as Duke Nukem 3D and Red Alert.

Wow, just did some research, apparently there were more than 10 million computers in the U.S when the NES was out, never knew that.

Anyway...Scratch that, barely anybody had a PC during the NES / SNES era. I didn't have a computer until 2002, I don't know anybody that has a PC before 1990, but then again, I do live in the UK where computers probably weren't as popular outside of offices.

Anyway, I am sick to death of PC fanboys thinking that the PC is the reason gaming exists now, that isn't true.