slowmo said: JaggedSac said: MS indirectly profits from Blizzard PC sales. They made a pretty big deal with Blizzard to handle advertising over Battle.net. The future of pc gaming is gonna be browser based along the lines of InstantAction's service or Quake Live. PopCap games and its ilk will also continue to help pc gaming grow.   I completely disagree in that regard, how many people upgrade their PC year on year so they can run games at the highest settings.  The hardcore market will always want better graphics and this will not be possible through remote gaming.

That is a good question, how many. It isn't anywhere near the majority of pc gamers.

Video killed the radio star.

Slimebeast said: shio said: Slimebeast said: PC genre is dying for hardcore gamers, all because of piracy. No big budget exclusives are made for the PC anymore. Even Critek started to develop their games for consoles. Blizzard makes their games for old PCs, but I fink they too will soon start to make games for consoles. There is not much use of these high end grafix cards for PC because the age of PC grafix power house is over. Console is the platform of choice for developers that want to make money with developing something else than just MMOs and Flash games. How is PC dieing for hardcore gamers when it's the only platform for hardcore genres like Adventure and Simulation?! Big Budgets?! HAH!! How much money are developers/publishers losing money on those games?! That's why we're seeing EA, Square-Enix and Capcom developing more and more for PC, while leaving HD Consoles behind somewhat. There are definitely more Big Budget games coming to PC than any console anyway.      I agree that the width of genres is greater on PC, and that's great. But honestly those two u mention are very small niche. I disagree about budgets. Yes, many big budget multiplatform like RE5; Assssins Creed and CoD still get their PC version (often with a few months delay though), but when it comes to exclusives, Crisis and Mpire Total war was the last big budget PC xclusives.

Any decent MMO has a big budget. Age of Conan has a budget of over $20 millions, and Warhammer Online probably has several times that. Even that low-profile MMO called Darkfall (which was involved in that Eurogamer scandal where the Eurogamer reviewer only played like 2 hours of the game and gave Darkfall a bad rating) has a budget of $20 millions.

By MMOs alone, PC has more big budgets than any platform.

Crysis and Empire aren't the only games with big budgets over $10 millions: The Witcher, Dawn of War 2, Stalker, Spore, Company of Heroes, World in Conflict, etc...

 

Links to those? I highly doubt Stalker, The Witcher, Company of Heroes, or World in Conflict had that high of a budget.

Dannagar said: Pirates are killing off PC gaming. And... Probably MMO players since they stop buying games years ago.

 

QFT piracy of PC games is insanely high, and most PC gamers dont buy many games each year.

JaggedSac said: slowmo said: JaggedSac said: MS indirectly profits from Blizzard PC sales. They made a pretty big deal with Blizzard to handle advertising over Battle.net. The future of pc gaming is gonna be browser based along the lines of InstantAction's service or Quake Live. PopCap games and its ilk will also continue to help pc gaming grow.   I completely disagree in that regard, how many people upgrade their PC year on year so they can run games at the highest settings.  The hardcore market will always want better graphics and this will not be possible through remote gaming.  That is a good question, how many. It isn't anywhere near the majority of pc gamers.

Traditionally PC gaming hardware is produced for the PC hardcore market then bundled down to a mass market price.  In order for their desire to be satisfied graphics must be better than those that preceeded it on new releases.  Even WoW gamers upgrade their PC's from time to time to run at better settings, once a true PC gamer you'll desire better performance.If you all believe we'll be playing through browsers in the future though I'll leave you to it.