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Danman27 on 05 July 2014

Devs control the prices. They choose to start at a lower selling point. Pcs are becoming more popular than they used to. PCs are far less of a niche market than they once were.



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outlawauron on 06 July 2014
Tamron said:
outlawauron said:

From the fact that user surveys of hardware show that their rigs are worse than current gen consoles. I wouldn't call those gaming PCs.

Also,  if your 2010 built rig cant handle current games unless you crank the settings to low for it to run,  i put it to you that your rig wasnt high end when you built it anyway. 

Let me guess,  mid range amd cpu,  mid range gpu? 

Nah. It's i7 running 3.2GHz and I have 5800 series ATI. CPU was over $300 and GPU was over $200 when I purchased it from Newegg.



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Scoobes on 06 July 2014
outlawauron said:
Tamron said:
outlawauron said:

From the fact that user surveys of hardware show that their rigs are worse than current gen consoles. I wouldn't call those gaming PCs.

Also,  if your 2010 built rig cant handle current games unless you crank the settings to low for it to run,  i put it to you that your rig wasnt high end when you built it anyway. 

Let me guess,  mid range amd cpu,  mid range gpu? 

Nah. It's i7 running 3.2GHz and I have 5800 series ATI. CPU was over $300 and GPU was over $200 when I purchased it from Newegg.

Unless you've got <4GB of RAM or are running dual monitors/ higher than 1080P resolution, you should have no trouble equalling the current gen consoles. 




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Squeezol on 06 July 2014

Hah, I think PC Gaming is actually becoming less and less niche. I don't think that's just me.



Tamron on 06 July 2014
Scoobes said:
outlawauron said:
Tamron said:
outlawauron said:

From the fact that user surveys of hardware show that their rigs are worse than current gen consoles. I wouldn't call those gaming PCs.

Also,  if your 2010 built rig cant handle current games unless you crank the settings to low for it to run,  i put it to you that your rig wasnt high end when you built it anyway. 

Let me guess,  mid range amd cpu,  mid range gpu? 

Nah. It's i7 running 3.2GHz and I have 5800 series ATI. CPU was over $300 and GPU was over $200 when I purchased it from Newegg.

Unless you've got <4GB of RAM or are running dual monitors/ higher than 1080P resolution, you should have no trouble equalling the current gen consoles. 

my thoughts exactly,  i think someones telling porky pies



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Lusche on 06 July 2014
outlawauron said:
Tamron said:

Also,  if your 2010 built rig cant handle current games unless you crank the settings to low for it to run,  i put it to you that your rig wasnt high end when you built it anyway. 

Let me guess,  mid range amd cpu,  mid range gpu? 

Nah. It's i7 running 3.2GHz and I have 5800 series ATI. CPU was over $300 and GPU was over $200 when I purchased it from Newegg.


strange, I had an i7 2.8ghz@3.8ghz and ati 5770 with asrock mb and 4gb ram for around 500bucks also in the beginning of 2010.
it could play most/all current gen games @1080p with medium/high settings.
maybe some hw/driver issues ?

giftet it to my mother because her pc was dead and got a new one for 550bucks ?beginning last year? which could play watchdogs@1080p ultra

 

but I also think pc gaming is not in it greatiest shape right now.
they also starting to charge console game prices for pc games and the ports are almost as bad as the wiiu ports were.
but calling mmorpg, mobas, rts, simulation niche is maybe a bit too much.



prinz_valium on 06 July 2014

sure. just a very very big niche market

just because more people play on theire phones (and also more on theire consoles), doenst mean pc is a small niche



ErwinMoC on 06 July 2014
zero129 said:
No one wants to try to dispute my theory (Well its not even really a theory since it is how things are going imo) about how consoles will die and become a service for your smart phones/smart tv/pc etc etc??.
I mean all them people that think PC gaming is going to die before console gaming must have something to say about it right??.


Because you really want an answer... 

Streaming is shit.

Bye.



deskpro2k3 on 06 July 2014

it is niche in terms of the type of games people play on it. the only kind of games i play on pc is mmo games, the rest is on consoles. things are changing though, because now consoles are getting mmo games.



amak11 on 06 July 2014

PC gaming just rides the waves. In a couple years it will be in decline, then go back up, then down, then up then down. Console gaming though, it's down from the last two generations. I would have expected the PS4 to sell faster than it has been selling based on knowing the PS fanboy crowd.