osed125 said:
BenVTrigger said:
osed125 said:
BenVTrigger said:
PC is hurting consoles as well, its having a huge resurgence |
The thing is that the problem goes way deeper. As Augen and I mentioned, kids today could grow up with the mentality that paying $60 for a game is unthinkable and prefer the free game, regardless of it's size and/or quality.
There's also the problem of the costs to buy or build a PC, however like I mentioned in my post, when/if streaming becomes a viable option for developers then costs won't be that big a problem because you could play on your crappy laptop or even on your phone.
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Tell that to Steam. Ive spent 100 dollars in the past 2 months on it and bought 30 games for that.
I mean my god I just got Witcher 2 for 3 bucks. I cant really justify playing consoles much now days. Its WAY more expensive than PC gaming over the course of a generation.
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But like I said, there's still the boundaries of "will my PC run this game? do I need a better graphics card?". In the long run, consoles are definitely more expensive, but the initial price is higher, which throws a lot of people of.
If that initial difference in price is broken, then PC gaming could become massive, and I mean HUGE. But until that, PC gaming will still be behind. Streaming could fix that problem; imagine paying $3 for the Witcher 2 without the need to buy a $1500 PC that can run it on max setting, hell yeah!
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Tell that to Nvidia who just posted a massive 50% increase in GPU sales this quarter or Steam who added over 10 million new users in less than 2 months.
PC is hugely rising. That doesnt mean consoles are dying but it is and will impact to a degree.
