noname2200 said:
I can't say I agree. The hardcore gamer may be an addict, but the vast majority of the gaming population is not. And how many "hardcore" gamers would never have been created in the past few years without console gaming, I wonder? |
I don't think you're seeing the full PC gaming picture with statements like that.
PC gamers today is the most diverse bunch of types of gamers you will find on any platform at any point and time. The console gamers may consider themselves as hardcore or casuals but on the PC you will find every type of gamer and the diversity of gaming found on the platform reflects it.
I guess to slightly revise my answer above, there would be absolutely no need for "AAA gaming" hype based gaming as we know it if consoles were to go away. Games wouldn't have to have massive first week sales to recover marketing budgets, packaging, storing and shipping costs. Everything could just coexist, and good games would sell and keep selling while bad games would die an immediate and painful death.
People tend to forget that PC was the platform for high budget titles until about 2007. DOOM 3, Neverwinter Nights, Halflife 2, FEAR, Crysis were all PC first cutting edge games that we would call "AAA" today.
