What happens after pc sets itself apart graphically from ps360?

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Godot said:

Ssyn said:

akuma587 said:
Software developers will have already figured out that the PC market is stagnating and will accommodate their games to the large PS3 and 360 userbases.

This is false, the PC market is far superior in terms of revenue than the HD consoles atm, its very hard to track so I imagine that is why this site doesn't bother but NDP recently said that it will begin to try tracking digital game purchases and subscriptions(MMO revenue). WoW alone makes more profit than sony and microsoft currently are.

 

WoW is the exception, not the rule. WoW makes a lot of money bot those people play mostly WoW and won't buy a lot of new games as they already pay 30$/month (or something like that) to play it. The PC gaming market is completely cannibalized by piracy (except for MMO which is what truly thrives on PC). It's no wonder even Epic and Valve started to support the consoles.

 

OT: I don't think much will happen. Most popular games on HD consoles are not PC port such as Halo, GTA, Final Fantasy, Rock Band, etc. However, PC will never have an impact on consoles. Just look in the past if you want a confirmation. While we're playing games such as Super Mario World on SNES, computers had games like Myst which looked so much better than consoles. Yet, the PC gaming never really stopped the expansion of the console market which grows yearly (and even without the Wii). Besides, programming games for Xbox360 is really similar to program games for PC. In that case, it's in those companies best interests to release games for both PC and Xbox360 (at least) even if the graphics are not as good.

Playing Wow costs 15$ a month, not 30$.

It's true some of the Wow players do not spend a lot of time playing the game but if you look at the hardcore wow population ( the raiders especially, not those that spend 7h a day online doing nothing) they spend a fair amount of time playing others games. Fact is, if you are organized Wow end game isn't that time consuming ( a few weeks of hardcore raiding when the stuff is released and then back to 3 days of raid a week ...