Epic focusing on console titles claims PC gaming is currently in "disarray"

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veiam said:

Final-Fan said:

veiam said:
If the next gen consoles are even pricier than this gen's consoles then I can see people going back to PC gaming due to the simple fact that PCs will be able to be made for cheaper than buying a console.

Also to get the HD benefit from a console you'd need an HDTV which costs a solid amount too, meanwhile, as far as i've heard, the use of an actual TV has been going down (50% of all .torrent files DLed have been of TV shows) therefore eventually you'd end up buying TVs just to play consoles. Meanwhile a laptop's screen is already 1200p, much better thana the best HDTV's out there.

I'm just waiting until consoles hit the $899 mark to see a rebound (Hopefully).

I predict 2050.

Seriously, do you think the console makers are blind? Sony may not have actually destroyed the Playstation brand but they came way too close for comfort and it was entirely due to having a massively expensive console. I've seen no one disagreeing until now with the idea that no console in the next gen is going to cost as much as the PS3 did at launch, so I would like to know why you think prices will go UP.

Moreover, PC prices are indeed falling but a PC in the same price range as consoles are NOT going to last as long for gaming as consoles.

And you seem to take trends like people watching more things on their computers (instead of TV) and assuming that those trends will continue forever, which is just silly. Obviously things will reach a new equilibrium and I think it's foolish to presume without very strong evidence that the new equilibrium will be "almost no one will watch TV in the future".

I agree with the fact that console's probably won't cost that much for a while, but as far as TV's are concerned you obviously have not noticed that TC has been dying more and more due to the internet, TV stations themselves have started uploading some of their shows up for torrent or streaming them. This all comes from a simple reason, I don't wanna be limited to 9 PM tuesdays to watch House, I wanna watch it the next day at 6PM or whenever. TVs are on their way out as a whole when it comes to shows, not sports, but just general TV shows yes.

Yes, and I agree that TV watching is on a downward trend, but at some point that trend is going to stop when a new equilibrium is reached between watching stuff on the computer and watching it on your TV.  SOME people will switch entirely to PC viewing just as some people will not watch TV content on the PC at all. 

I don't wanna be limited to 9 PM tuesdays to watch House, I wanna watch it the next day at 6PM or whenever.
That's what many people use VCRs or TiVos for.

TVs are on their way out as a whole when it comes to shows, not sports, but just general TV shows yes.
OK, but that's not what you said.  You said
therefore eventually you'd end up buying TVs just to play consoles.
meaning that people would not have ANY reason to buy a TV except to play consoles.  This is just not true, especially considering the growing trend of using HDTVs as computer monitors.  And, similarly, most big monitors have AV inputs that consoles can also use. 

Perhaps you just fell victim to the common habit of hyperbole?