John Carmack no longer sees PC as important as consoles!

[mjk45]

averyblund said:

mjk45 said:

averyblund said:

OCTOBER 7th 2011
In an interview to PC Gamer, John Carmack said, "When we started on the game six years ago, I looked at the consoles and said ‘These are as good as the PCs that we're on here’, and our development strategy was set up such that we basically developed live on all the platforms there. And now when we’re looking at PCs that have ten times the horsepower of the consoles... I’m making a large change in my direction, just saying ‘We should be focusing on building things efficiently on the PC and [then] deploying on to consoles.’ And we didn’t make that as crisp of a distinction as we should have."

Carmack further explain how that will change going forward, "My development system now has twenty-four threads and twenty-four gigs of memory, and we can start putting on half a terabyte of solid state drives, and these are the things that are gonna drive the development process on the PC. So, I’m actually as excited about how we’re developing tht titles in this coming generation as the graphics enhancements and things that I’m gonna make."

http://www.gamepur.com/news/5668-carmack-developing-rage-consoles-was-big-mistake.html


No offense, but OP is too young to really understand how PC gaming has been dying for 20+ years and yet still brings in tons of money for devs like Activision and the casual companies. WoW is the only reason Acti is doing half as well as they seem to.

People that dismiss PC gaming are by and large young, anti-casual, and dismissive of female gamers who fuel the PC market. When you include gamers that arn't in the "hardcore" demographic PC gaming is larger than console gaming.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/97705-pc-gaming-vs-consoles-the-infographic

But just like the Wii, casuals don't count right?

I will agree though that typical "hardcore" (hate that word) gaming is stagnant on the PC. Not really dying, but certainly it is a small peice of the PC gaming pie.

talk about cherry picking

Sorry the image just came with all that other unrelated shit.  The top graph is clearly what I was talking about and I don't see the issue with it- it's cited data. As to the "cherry picking"; I'm no fandroid, but the massive influx of games like Farmville is something that seems to get ignored by traditional gamers. Feel free and dispute the data with an argument. I too was a bit surprised when I read it - so who knows, might be an unrealiable methodology . But as it stands you choose to post a vapid contentless criticism which doesn't really inform the discussion.

 

On an unrelated note, I see you liked Future Cop LAPD- damn underated game I'd say.

The reason I didn't comment more was I was in a hurry and didn't have time ,  so  I left the comment that to me summed up the article and left others to defend it attack it or ignore it.

Now down to brass tacks , I don't think PC gaming is dead, I do think traditional gaming was in decline on the PC but like many segments that have decline followed by restructure , it  tends to stabilise some what, People mention Steam in regards to healthy PC gaming and forget the bricks and mortar decline and other underlying factors that have contributed to its success.

Another thing is peoples perception of  PC gaming , with a lot of people defining it as the type of games made by game company's that either stayed PC only , PC was their first port of call or the successful platform , hence you hear the generic term traditional PC games,like many such terms this was always clouded mainly because the differentiation is hardware based and has now become damn right foggy , This makes it harder to categorically state PC gaming is in decline because some parts are and some parts aren't and we are talking about the whole.

On to cherry picking,  Mention is made of consoles reliability (not sure why but it was there none the less) with out any mention of PC reliability as if it lives in a vacuum and mobo's and other components dying doesn't count .  Next picking one month when Starcraft 2  happened to be on top to some how show the future  growth of PC gaming ,  yes again very selective.

Most of the rest of the chart mentions video gaming in general not PC , ie 72% of the US population plays video games , digital Dl on the rise although  09 and10 where  both 8% and these figures though not PC specific are used to justify PC growth.

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