| shaunboulton said: I rellay hope PC gaming doesnt die :( |
PC gaming won't die; it'll just change into something completely different than the way it looks right now. We'll likely see more casual/indie titles and the near-complete death of big-budget, console-style exclusives as development costs rise with the power of the hardware.
Either way, I have serious doubts that digital distribution will bring costs down. In fact, I'm pretty sure the opposite will happen: game developers, seeing that they don't have any secondary market to compete with any longer, will keep prices raised long after they would have otherwise dropped in brick & mortar stores. In addition, since the publisher controls the sole distribution channel for their game, you won't see many sales, specials, or clearances as the B&M's would normally put out there to get people to come into their stores and buy other things.
That's one of the many reasons why you can pry my physical media from my cold, dead hands. :)
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
