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Do you believe PC Gaming is dying?

Yes 136 41.21%
 
No 169 51.21%
 
Unsure / Can't decide 25 7.58%
 
Total:330
Legend11 on 15 February 2010

I think it'll take another hit next generation when the remaining genres that are currently dominant on PC start to take hold on consoles.

I also think PCs as we know them are on their way out. Consoles in my opinion are going to be the devices that will bridge television, telephones, computers, and the internet simply because they're easier to use.  I guess what I'm trying to say is that it won't just be PC gaming that will die, it'll be the PC itself as we know it.



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Doobie_wop on 15 February 2010

All I know is that when I got a new PC which is apparently good enough to play Crysis, I went to the store bought Crysis came home, went to install it and an error came up saying the game was missing a sound file. The installation shutdown and no amount of googling was able to help. This has happened a few time's with me with different games and it's what lead me to believe PC gaming is an inconvenience for anyone not savy with the tech.

It also doesn't help that console gaming is catching up with PC gaming in term's of graphic's, it's not there yet, but who know's what could happen in 2 year's. Hardware doesn't seem to matter as much anymore, with talented developer's limited hardware can make fantastic software, as we've already seen.

Steam seem's like the only thing really keeping PC gaming alive, I don't think it will die, but I've seen far to many people turn to consoles instead of the PC in recent year's.



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

joshin69 on 15 February 2010
IllegalPaladin said:
Theo said:
I just wish that the PC was backwards compatable. Since Windows 7 I havn't been able to play Half Life 2 without getting sound loop crashes, and havn't even been able to start MoHAA, it just crashes.

Something with Windows 7 most likely. However, to say that PC isn't backwards compatilbe is a little odd to me. I can load up a game that I used to play on our first DOS computer back around the mid ninties on the same PC that I can play Mass Effect 2 or Crysis on.


Not on Win7, surley. Not even office03 works on 7



 

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Cobretti2 on 15 February 2010

as long as I am still alive there will always be PC Gami..............



 

 

Scoobes on 15 February 2010

It's changing, but in no way is it dying.




Get your Portable ID!

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Barozi on 15 February 2010
Squilliam said:

For $85 U.S.D. with about 12 mouse clicks and 5 minutes of effort. There were other games too but I can't be bothered listing them. I shit you not, Stalker COP DX11 is probably the best looking game out there at the moment. This is the DX10 path.

I played Call of Prypiat and I think it's one of the ugliest games released in the past 3 years.

besides the weather and lighting effects it's very poor.

I can't imagine that DirectX11 will suddenly change that.



gamelover2000 on 15 February 2010

I picked yes, it won't die but itll get really small.. the piracy is getting way to big for 3rd party devs not to be fed up..

either way its doing way worse then the console market



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shio on 15 February 2010
thekitchensink said:
shio said:
thekitchensink said:
I'd say it's dying--check out the sales of Modern Warfare 2 PC vs the PS3 and 360 versions.

not that I want MW2 to be successful on PC (I hope MW2 PC failed completely), but where can we find the figures of the PC version? Unless Activision releases some figures, anyone that says the PC version was outsold by the PS360's is trolling.

Sorry to disappoint you, but... http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5826 

"VGChartz preliminary day one figures puts the sales to date (including the midnight launches) at over 7 million copies worldwide across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Around 55% of sales are on Xbox 360, 33% on PS3 and the remaining 12% on PC."

 

Unless the sales patterns have changed dramatically, the PS3 version has roughly tripled the PC version, and that's to say nothing of the 360 version.  And this is a franchise that got its start (and became famous) on the PC.

Not to rain on your parade, but PC being 12% despite not even counting Digital sales means that it would outsell atleast the PS3 version, if it weren't for the fact that MW2 PC is such a crappy version.

PC games aren't front loaded, and they keep selling for years. If the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was great, and if Activision didn't release another COD, there's no doubt that MW2 would reach 10 millions on PC alone.



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r505Matt on 15 February 2010
shio said:
thekitchensink said:
shio said:
thekitchensink said:
I'd say it's dying--check out the sales of Modern Warfare 2 PC vs the PS3 and 360 versions.

not that I want MW2 to be successful on PC (I hope MW2 PC failed completely), but where can we find the figures of the PC version? Unless Activision releases some figures, anyone that says the PC version was outsold by the PS360's is trolling.

Sorry to disappoint you, but... http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5826 

"VGChartz preliminary day one figures puts the sales to date (including the midnight launches) at over 7 million copies worldwide across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Around 55% of sales are on Xbox 360, 33% on PS3 and the remaining 12% on PC."

 

Unless the sales patterns have changed dramatically, the PS3 version has roughly tripled the PC version, and that's to say nothing of the 360 version.  And this is a franchise that got its start (and became famous) on the PC.

Not to rain on your parade, but PC being 12% despite not even counting Digital sales means that it would outsell atleast the PS3 version, if it weren't for the fact that MW2 PC is such a crappy version.

PC games aren't front loaded, and they keep selling for years. If the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was great, and if Activision didn't release another COD, there's no doubt that MW2 would reach 10 millions on PC alone.

I would completely agree except in the case of MW2 especially, plenty of people are pirating it out of spite (people that planned to buy it). The no dedicated servers, limiting the player count, lack of console commands, general shitty attitude (interviewer-"well what does it have?" Rep for IW-"keyboard and mouse support"). All of these things pissed off plenty of people.

Pirating isn't the right answer, it just makes devs/pubs care even less for PC gaming. Too bad Act/IW doesn't seem to care about consumers. Not that I'd expect them to, but I'd expect them to listen to complaints in a serious manner.

Personally, I've resolved to not buy another IW game but that's just my own way to deal with this.



Garcian Smith on 15 February 2010

PC gaming has been "dying" for nearly a decade. I remember people saying the same thing back in 2002-2003.

In short: No.



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