Disclaimer: This thread represents my opinion. The main purpose of this thread is to express my opinion gaming PCs future. By gaming PCs I mean PCs that are meant for gaming. PCs that are used in office or home doesnt fall in this category. Please dont take the thread off topic.
Gaming PCs are something special. These PCs represents users taste in harware and reflects his personality. These PCs are meant for one thing and one thing only. Make the game beautiful. Play is smoothly.
But I think gaming PCs are turning more niche and niche every day. They are not dying. And given their customization options they will survive no matter what odds comes to them. But their progress might come to a stall. Why?
1. The games that push gaming PCs are usually so called AAA games. Love it or hate it but these AAA games breaks the barrier of virtual world which is not possible for many indie games. But AAA games and PC market doesn’t seem a perfect match.
2. AAA games require huge sales with $60 mark to make it profitable. But in PC gaming arena this is less frequent than console games. They are many AAA PC successful games but their number is less than console counterparts.
3. In PC gaming people are delighted with the sale of an AAA game at $10. And why they shouldn’t? It’s a great offer. But from a developers perspective this is not a good sign. They want as many games sold at $60 not in $10.
4. Plus piracy is another reason why these AAA games don’t get money. Piracy in PC is much bigger than console counterpart. If piracy reduced to 20% in PC then their revenue would be 5-10 times bigger than consoles revenue.
5. GPU manufacturers will be in dilemma in future. As the costs of making GPU will keep rising in future. Unless there is somne alternative cheap ways they might face the option to make less variants.
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6. PC gaming is bigger than console gaming. But majority of that revenue comes from MMO and MOBA games. And these games don’t push visual benchmarks. They don’t push it because they want to make it playable as many gamers they can. So in the end these so called AAA games will push PC graphics.
Ending words: Gaming PCs will never go obsolete. They will keep doing some amazing things. But their progress might face a downward trend.
