Why PC Gaming is Surging

[NightDragon83]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

BasilZero said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Don't worry, Microsoft will say they are trying to save PC gaming again and take all of their games. LOL

So...are you saying PC gaming is dying o.O?

No, but if MS runs out of games guess where they will be moneyhatting? PC gaming would've never had a drought if the major PC games never entered the console realm. Id, Bethesda,Valve, Bioware, Epic, Bungie, Infinity Ward,  Blizzard, now CDProjekt Red and so many others? Don't tell me you haven't noticed. Even Sony is starting to try to do it to survive against MS with Warframe. I would hate to see how many PC devs jump ship next gen because of them both now.

More accurately, PC gaming would've never had a drought if a $300 console wasn't capable of running the exact same games with slightly lower graphics settings that most $1,000 PCs had trouble keeping up with.  In no other generation prior to this one were console games even close to the tech curve that PC games were constantly riding the edge of.

Sure, consoles like PS1 and N64 received the occasional port of popular PC games like Diablo and StarCraft, albeit severely scaled back in both the graphics and gameplay departments, but there was never a time where flagship PC titles were not only releasing simultaneously on consoles day 1, but looked and played nearly 100% identical to each other.