| Vasto said: David Cole makes an interesting claim about the general ownership of devices, stating that “the big difference is that consoles are now the luxury item and PCs are the necessity. Just a few years ago the reverse was true.” I believe this is the case because our perception of what constitutes a PC has fundamentally changed. Consider that Blizzard’s wildly popular digital card game Hearthstone is playable on a Microsoft MSFT +0.74% Surface, a $4000 custom gaming PC, and an iPad. All of which double as productivity devices, communication devices, and entertainment consumption devices. |
I should have stopped after this underlined nonsense, but unfortunately I kept reading.
So, PCs were not a necessity 5/10/20 years ago? It is amazing that such ingenious machine just became necessary now, in 2014, I wonder how it managed to survive 30 years of being a luxury item bought by very few wealthy people.
And of course consoles were a huge necessity in 2008. So, that's why 100 million Wiis were sold - word-processing, spreadsheets, communication, data storage etc. I'm so glad such necessary hardware even existed.
uh, maybe I could go on, but all this sarcasm has extinguished my will to go any further. But, maybe I'm wrong. Because 900 million gamers surely cannot be.
