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rocketpig on 14 February 2008
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.

It's really convenient how all 360s, Wiis, and PS3s are included in that number but not a single piece of PC hardware is.

That seems fair. PC gaming may be "niche", but it's a pretty big niche. 




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shio on 14 February 2008
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames in 2007... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.


What is the point in adding Wii+PS2+PS3+360+DS+PSP+other against PC? That's just stupid. Especially in US



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Bozotheclown on 14 February 2008
rocketpig said:
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.

It's really convenient how all 360s, Wiis, and PS3s are included in that number but not a single piece of PC hardware is.

That seems fair. PC gaming may be "niche", but it's a pretty big niche. 


If they were singling out PC hardware it would be 100's of .02% numbers.  I think they would have to group them all together.



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Final-Fan on 14 February 2008

^ I agree with shio, but why especially in the US?



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naznatips on 14 February 2008
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Yeah, but console games get better and better, technically speaking, as developers get better at tweaking the hardware, so by the end of gen I would expect new 360 games to be in better shape than new PC games running on the late2005-early2007 PC. You'd have more experience on this judging by firsthand knowledge though.

Well certainly that's true, but you will be able to run those games in at least moderately good form if you built your PC around that level.  Honestly, as a PC gamer with experience in this, it's far better to do what I did and wait for a year or 2 into the generation to upgrade.  You'll get far better performance out of your games that way.

Personally what I did this generation is I waited for Bioshock, as it seemed to me to be the epitome of 360 technology and I decided it was the proper time to upgrade.  So I got a PC that exceeded Bioshock's recommended settings.  It cost me about $500.  I'll probably upgrade by graphics card in a year or 2, but other than that this PC will last me quite a while.



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Bozotheclown on 14 February 2008
shio said:
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames in 2007... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.


What is the point in adding Wii+PS2+PS3+360+DS+PSP+other against PC? That's just stupid. Especially in US


Regardless,  the sales numbers do not lie. 1 billion  vs. 18 billions



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Final-Fan on 14 February 2008
Bozotheclown said:
rocketpig said:
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.

It's really convenient how all 360s, Wiis, and PS3s are included in that number but not a single piece of PC hardware is.

That seems fair. PC gaming may be "niche", but it's a pretty big niche.

If they were singling out PC hardware it would be 100's of .02% numbers. I think they would have to group them all together.

What's your point? PC hardware is not included and console hardware is (sez rocketpig). Including PC hardware would be a nightmare, agreed, so let's remove console hardware and see how the numbers go. What about that, bozo?

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Final-Fan on 14 February 2008
naznatips said:
Final-Fan said:
Yeah, but console games get better and better, technically speaking, as developers get better at tweaking the hardware, so by the end of gen I would expect new 360 games to be in better shape than new PC games running on the late2005-early2007 PC. You'd have more experience on this judging by firsthand knowledge though.

Well certainly that's true, but you will be able to run those games in at least moderately good form if you built your PC around that level. Honestly, as a PC gamer with experience in this, it's far better to do what I did and wait for a year or 2 into the generation to upgrade. You'll get far better performance out of your games that way.

Personally what I did this generation is I waited for Bioshock, as it seemed to me to be the epitome of 360 technology and I decided it was the proper time to upgrade. So I got a PC that exceeded Bioshock's recommended settings. It cost me about $500. I'll probably upgrade by graphics card in a year or 2, but other than that this PC will last me quite a while.

Nice. I think a lot of the PC bashers are working off of old information; $500 would have got you shit 5 or 10 years ago.

I built a PC not too long ago, but I think I ripped myself off by not working off a lower budget. 


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veiam on 14 February 2008

^ As rocket pig said, you added the cost of the consoles and their sales as well. If you do that you should add all the video card sales and anything 2 gigs + ram to the PC sales.



Bozotheclown on 14 February 2008
Final-Fan said:
Bozotheclown said:
rocketpig said:
Bozotheclown said:
As far as videogames... $18.85 BILLION was made in North America alone and $910 MILLION was from PC games. ( around 14% )

I'd say PC is niche.

It's really convenient how all 360s, Wiis, and PS3s are included in that number but not a single piece of PC hardware is.

That seems fair. PC gaming may be "niche", but it's a pretty big niche.

If they were singling out PC hardware it would be 100's of .02% numbers. I think they would have to group them all together.

What's your point?  PC hardware is not included and console hardware is (sez rocketpig).  Including PC hardware would be a nightmare, agreed, so let's remove console hardware and see how the numbers go.  What about that, bozo?

 


Im looking at revenue generated from games.

(PC)1 BILLION   vs.  (Home console) 18 BILLION



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