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numonex on 23 April 2009

Piracy is killing PC game sales. I do not see PC gaming ever coming back to match or surpass the growing popularity of console gaming.

PC games look much better than console games in terms of graphics due to the regular upgrades of PCs. PC gaming is elitist and you need to spend a lot of money to have the system that can run the latest PC games.

Most PC systems become obsolete within 4 years whereas consoles can last up to 10 years and still deliver good games.



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Cueil on 23 April 2009
numonex said:
Piracy is killing PC game sales. I do not see PC gaming ever coming back to match or surpass the growing popularity of console gaming.

PC games look much better than console games in terms of graphics due to the regular upgrades of PCs. PC gaming is elitist and you need to spend a lot of money to have the system that can run the latest PC games.

Most PC systems become obsolete within 4 years whereas consoles can last up to 10 years and still deliver good games.

Steam and to a much lesser extent Windows Live have helped in the piracy department, but for the most part you are correct.

 



 
Get your Portable ID!

noname2200 on 23 April 2009
JaggedSac said:

Here, you might as well add all the ones on here www.2flashgames.com.

Well that puts me in my place.

 



waron on 23 April 2009
GamingChartzFTW said:


This is nothing new though, since this pattern sort of repeats itself every generation. When I say "reclaim the throne", I mean in terms of Gfxs, overall quality of the big releases and the 'sheer awe' gamers experience when playing through all the Superb Quality PC Games. It happened during the second half of the PS1/N64 gen (5th gen), with Half-Life, CounterStrike etc.

As a hardcore PCgamer I'm looking forward to all the yet to be announced PC games. 'Core' companies like Valve will lead the way!

Cheers!

 

 

so you just based your statement on graphics being better on pc than consoles at the end of this generation? FAIL.



mjc2021 on 23 April 2009
GamingChartzFTW said:


This is nothing new though, since this pattern sort of repeats itself every generation. When I say "reclaim the throne", I mean in terms of Gfxs, overall quality of the big releases and the 'sheer awe' gamers experience when playing through all the Superb Quality PC Games. It happened during the second half of the PS1/N64 gen (5th gen), with Half-Life, CounterStrike etc.

As a hardcore PCgamer I'm looking forward to all the yet to be announced PC games. 'Core' companies like Valve will lead the way!

Cheers!

 

Yeah, top quality games to pirate! But the PC will fovever dominate when it comes to porn.



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Cueil on 23 April 2009
mjc2021 said:
GamingChartzFTW said:


This is nothing new though, since this pattern sort of repeats itself every generation. When I say "reclaim the throne", I mean in terms of Gfxs, overall quality of the big releases and the 'sheer awe' gamers experience when playing through all the Superb Quality PC Games. It happened during the second half of the PS1/N64 gen (5th gen), with Half-Life, CounterStrike etc.

As a hardcore PCgamer I'm looking forward to all the yet to be announced PC games. 'Core' companies like Valve will lead the way!

Cheers!

 

Yeah, top quality games to pirate! But the PC will fovever dominate when it comes to porn.

 



 
Get your Portable ID!

Ail on 23 April 2009
Cueil said:
numonex said:
Piracy is killing PC game sales. I do not see PC gaming ever coming back to match or surpass the growing popularity of console gaming.

PC games look much better than console games in terms of graphics due to the regular upgrades of PCs. PC gaming is elitist and you need to spend a lot of money to have the system that can run the latest PC games.

Most PC systems become obsolete within 4 years whereas consoles can last up to 10 years and still deliver good games.

Steam and to a much lesser extent Windows Live have helped in the piracy department, but for the most part you are correct.

 

Yep, even Stardock that are championning no DRM and made their gamer bill of right are having huge issue with their latest game release.

 

Their multiplayer servers are getting swamped by 120k players and it looks like only 18k of those are legit only...

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Zkuq on 23 April 2009

I would be almost surprised if it didn't. Well, not going to 'reclaim the throne' I guess but it'll get stronger anyway.



CaseyDDR on 23 April 2009

It's funny because WoW alone has over 11 million users and a much larger profit margin than the PS3 or 360 could ever dream of. Then there are plenty other MMO's out with million+ users. Seriously, get a clue fanboys.

As for Waron, before I respond, are you suggesting that consoles will have equal graphics to a PC by end of this gen?



The Halo francise is the most overrated bland game to ever hit the console market. It provides a bad name to all FPS that even showed effort at creating an original entertaining plot.

I probably have more ps3 games than you :/ 

waron on 23 April 2009
CaseyDDR said:
It's funny because WoW alone has over 11 million users and a much larger profit margin than the PS3 or 360 could ever dream of. Then there are plenty other MMO's out with million+ users. Seriously, get a clue fanboys.

As for Waron, before I respond, are you suggesting that consoles will have equal graphics to a PC by end of this gen?

 

no, i'm saying that this statement that pc games will be better than consoles is based only by the fact that they will be pretier. of course they will be pretier, but still what kind of pc will you have to get to see significant difference and what for when most games are console only.