| MikeB said: @ Squilliam Furthermore PC development is getting stronger, not weaker so im not sure where you're coming from there. This is why the gaming market more and more focusses on console technology: Source: NPD (PC Gaming market, US/NA) 2001 - 2002 ~ 10% decline 2002 - 2003 ~ 14.3% decline. 2003 - 2004 ~ 14% decline 2004 - 2005 ~ 19% decline 2005 - 2006 ~ 2% growth! (World of Warcraft and the Sims 2 dominated, not the most demanding games) 2006 - 2007 ~ 9% decline The console market on the other hand is generating record gains. The console market dwarfs the PC market. And consoles have become far more technically competitive with PCs, capable of doing everything a gaming PC does. The Cell provides more perfomance than ordinary PC CPUs can deliver with regard to gaming, there are already ~14 million PS3 with default Blu-Ray drives out there, the PC is probably going to adopt Blu-Ray a bit quicker than it did DVD, but still it's going to take quite a while. And consoles are now able to deliver an awesome online experience and it's going to get better with enhancements such as Home. |
Yeah and i'll pull out Japan numbers to prove how much the PS3 is sucking in Japan too... You forget online, casual and subscription services. Also there are markets such as Europe where PC>Consoles.
Blu ray can go away really... It won't be adopted for a long while as a medium for software delivery (If at all).
BTW your console of choice uses a GPU designed first for PC use. If the PC games market was not flourishing then that GPU would not have been developed. Its like saying Cars > Ships while forgetting that the ships deliver the fuel to run the cars.
Furthermore without the PC as the strong games platform that it has been and will continue to be, that Cell you love so much would be little more than a fart in the wind. There wouldn't have been the emphasis and development on the technologies required to make it possible.
Tease.
