PC Gaming Is So Dead That 63% Of American Gamers Game on PC, Beating Smartphones and Handhelds

[Eddie_Raja]

DevilRising said:
The problem with a thread/statement like this, is that talking about "PC Gaming" NOW, as opposed to even 10-15 years ago, is a hugely different thing. Once upon a time, console gaming and pc gaming were totally different things. Every once in awhile you'd see a port of a game from one to the other. But it there was a distinct difference between console games and pc games. They were two different worlds of gaming, and two you could enjoy seperately. And as such, "PC Gamers" back then were a totally different breed as well.

Nowadays I find more and more so-called "PC Gamers" who don't necessarily like what used to be considered po games, so much as they just like/prefer playing ports of console games on their PC, via Steam or what have you. It's become a melting pot, and to me, that's not "PC Gaming". That's just ports of console games, played on pc (often with console-like controllers, or in some cases using straight up PS3 or Xbox 360 controllers).

So if "PC Gamers" have grown as a crowd, it's not that actual pc games have become more popular, but that many former console gamers have migrated with the same games they would be playing on home systems, for their computers. That's my take on it anyway.

And there is nothing wrong with that.