bobobologna said:
Gamerace said:
Well, after digging around on the website I finally found them. My PC is less than a year old, but it's a laptop and no, I don't have the necessary specs. I hate that. I understand I can't expect a laptop to have top graphics, but for developers to make games that require more graphical umph than what's currently being sold (PC or laptop) is just stupid. No wonder the industry is suffering. |
No offense, but if you bought a laptop expecting to play games, you were sorely mistaken. Laptops are portable work machines, not portable gaming machines. If you want games on the go, get a DS or PSP. My laptop is used exclusively for working. My desktop is used (almost) exclusively for gaming. |
Exactly. I always want to break something when I see people complain about what their laptop can and can't play. Laptops are business tools. That's like buying a Palm Pilot and bitching that it can't play DS games.
And the industry is hardly suffering. Just changing. Here's a few fun numbers. Microsoft boasts 10 million people have at one time or another connected their Xbox 360s to the internet. Maybe 1/3 of those people actually pay for Gold accounts and play online. Steam boasts 15 million active accounts. On Steam alone, which is by its nature a free online gaming service.
That's not even considering all the people using X-Fire, Battle.net, EA Nation, Gas Powered Games, and the well over 10 million WoW players alone. PC gamig is hardly suffering. It's thriving as the leading online gaming community by far. All the console online gamers combined are completely dwarfed by the amount that play PC games online.
It's just a market shifting to digital distribution. It's becomming internet focused, and considering that some estimates suggest that publishers see more than double the income on a digital sold copy than a store sold copy, I don't think there is any fear of the PC industry dying.
