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Mummelmann on 06 March 2013
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Adinnieken said:
Mummelmann said:
PC gaming has been dying since around 1990, that's when it started.

Um...it wasn't on the decline in 1990, but it has been on the decline since the late 1990's. 

PC Gaming needs to solve several problems before PC gaming comes back.  Microsoft tried to solve the problems with Windows Gaming, Steam sort of addresses the problems but introduce others.  Origin does nothing to resolve any of the issues.  Don't think anything else out there addresses the issues game developers have with the PC, which is why they have gone to consoles in droves.


Wasn't in a decline but still believed to be in peril, it was believed that Arcades, home consoles, handhelds and fringe PC/console units such as the Amiga, which was pretty hot in Europe for a while, would take over the market and end the PC as a gaming platform, or at the very least leave it crippled. The arguments we see today are largely the same and the chances of PC gaming dying are also the same.

PC as a gaming platform is without a doubt the most adapted one and will always have the benefit of ease and simplicity of development as well extreme advantages in cost of distribution and development (doubly so since digital distribution is growing immensely on the PC). Nevermind the fact that it usually provides a superior gaming experience from a technical standpoint and has more connectivity, media capability and features than anything else on the market and still remains, and will remain, the primary development tool for everything software related.