That's weird, I'm running Win7 and I run anything from Prince of Persia to Mass Effect 2 no problems.

Dragon Age runs fine, but older stuff even UT 2004 can do crazy things to my comp, like making the whole screen go pixel nuts. I'll be getting a new comp in the summer though.

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.

It won't die, but it is dieing

A better question is, are you really using the sales of one of the shittiest and most hated PC games as an indicator? I couldn't cherry pick more even if I chose Lair to say that HD gaming is going down the shitter.

I don't think it's dying, but i think others are trying to kill it *couph* microsoft *couph*


Once they found out PC gamers wouldn't pay for LIVE I think they made the decision to just try and force them onto a system where they could.

I put together a system quickly for $450 incl shipping, excl taxes after MIR excluding Windows (you're not expecting your 11 year old brother use Linux right?) and monitor and keyboard/mouse as these are basics that everyone needs pretty much if they run a desktop machine.

• 2.9Ghz tricore
• HD Radeon 5670 1GB
• 500GB HDD
• 2GB ram
• Gigabyte motherboard
• Antec Case + 380W PSU
• DVD burner

Add $100 for Windows if you must.

Add $50 for keyboard/mouse etc if you must.

Its a solid and realistic computer and any kid would be pretty happy to use one.

But in the end its about who you're talking about. A savvy user will pretty much always pay less overall than had they bought a console. An enthusiast doesn't care, he'll pay $1000 and love every minute of it and the ignorant people who don't know will probably buy a Wii or Xbox 360 or PS3 or continue to play games on their laptop.

Btw how come you talk up the convenience of buying a console and yet play down the inconvenience of making dealings on Ebay etc? Steam is pretty simple. I got:

• Stalker
• Red Faction Guerilla
• Saints Row 2
• Titan Quest + expansions
• Company of Heroes + Expansions
• Dawn of war + expansions
• Dawn of war 2
• Stalker: Call of Pripyat
• Mount and Blade

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.

It will die if there is no games that will be exciting, which won't happen

Is PC gaming dying? Absolutely not.

If anything, it's bigger than ever.

Sure, the FPS fanatics may opt for a PS3/360 over a PC these days, but that's hardly an indicator of the PC overall.

And many people may remember a lot of big games on PC's back in "the day." But you have to remember that PC's weren't really a common household appliance until the mid to late 90's, well into the modern console era. As the PC entered the mainstream, PC gaming thrived alongside consoles, and it continues to do well today. Strategy and MMO's hold their ground on PC, drawing millions of people. WoW and The Sims are some of the best selling games of all time. FPS, and perhaps other genres, may have shifted to consoles, but gaming overall is alive and well on PC.

As for me, I find myself gaming mainly on PC these days, as it is mainly PC games (strategy, MMO, rogue-like, etc) that appeal to me.

PC gaming is evolving past the old model. That's why it appears it's dying, because how the old console gaming style works. Console players judge by. Console players are essentially techinicly and business model wise 10 years behind.