| RepedeGoesWoof said:
1) PCs do not "demand" maintenance. Once you build it, you're set until you decide to upgrade the parts years down the road. If it does indeed break down, then replacing a part generally suffices in fixing it. 2) Yes, we understand people who don't possess a comprehensive knowledge on gaming would probably just go to a store to purchase a console. That's why that market exists, but sticking to the assumption we game as a hobby (which I'm sure all of us do on this site), then this argument has gaming enthusiasts in mind. 3) This has nothing to do with being "socially aware." We shouldn't have to "learn to deal with it." I think it's fair to demand a quality product, and we shouldn't have to settle for whatever the market gives us either. |
I know what the topic is and I responding to what I heard from like Mohammadbadir. Just a response, nothing serious, but it does represent something that I've spoken to a lot of PC gamers about and seems to frustrate them.
1) PC's do demand maintenance. Virus protection, sometimes technician maintenance (For those who don't know how to fix things themselves: IE: Cleaning ups, Disk Defrag) upgrades, the works. On PC its product upkeep > games when were talking about actual gamers...not casuals who do not even care to even have medium specs on their PC's.
http://www.itconsultingnj.com/pc-replacement-cycle-is-it-time-for-a-new-computer
"Gartner Research conducted a study of 177 large businesses and discovered that the average life span of a desktop PC is 43 months, and only 36 months for mobile PCs. More than a third of respondents claimed the main reason for PC replacement is to improve user productivity, while more than a quarter cited escalating support costs with older machines. More than 20% said new software requirements led to the need for new computing systems."
This leaves the average PC replacement time at a little over 3.5 years. Consoles have a six to ten year lifespan and the majority of the money for multiplats that PC gamers enjoy come from consoles. If we align this with the average time that comes with a new PC replacements, new parts, games and other things will come into the pictures. Once newly turned PC they've upgraded from consoles to PC and get used to PC it tends to use benchmarks as a key to follow for optimum response. I've also noticed from a lot of PC/console gamers on youtube is that even though they boast its obvious they have a higher ability to understand frames than console gamers, so they invest to make sure their PC is at peak performance. They become very critical about it and if you want me to show you a couple videos where that is the case I would be pleased to show you. Average joe gamers don't care about that, its games > console for them. Consoles are simpler to use, plain and simple. Not much thinking needs to be done to control it.
2) You can sell a PC to a gaming enthusiast, but once he enters that world and begins to understand it, remaining complacement will not do. You know it and I know it. Remember we're dealing with a spectrum of knowledge. Its not just something you can point your finger at and say "Thats it". Even some console gaming enthusiasts just want to focus on games and don't believe its n their best interest to upgrade. Also, yes...it is a social misunderstanding...hence why PC gamers call themselves even jokingly "The master race"....and yet look who is paying for the majority of the multiplats they play. One party is talking, the other party is buying.
3) It has a lot to do with being socially aware. If you know better...with great power of knowledge comes responsibility and the most we can do is let people know and if they dont accept the knowledge and move on to the next. More often than not most people wont care to understand the developed nature of some things. This goes for many thigs like music, art, building, mathematics, science and more. Everythig that has a profession (which demands learning) or form of connosuier taste has a majority of people who only look at it from the most basic of perspectives. The reason I said this is a social misunderstanding, because I pay attention to the behavior of markets. No matter which way you slice it....its social. Its because of social awareness that they key understanding of sales in general becomes a science in itself. This is how we know to make projections and forecasts.
PC is for those who understand the possibilities and also the drawbacks and vice versa for consoles. Its a majority vs minority way of thinking.
