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dorbin2009 on 16 November 2009

When you can emulate Starcraft 2 perfectly on a 360 , let me know. Until then, PC gaming will persist.



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MAFKKA on 17 November 2009
mirgro said:
Sidious said:
MAFKKA said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
Seems like more and more people feel that they should get things for free. Especially if they feel the item doesn't live up to their arbitrary expectations.

Exactly.  And all they are going to do by pirating it, rather than just not buying it, is give developers more of an excuse to move development to consoles or implement even more DRM.

^ Well the 360 still have 220.000 pirated downloads. So at the moment, i'd say they give developers more of an excuse to move development to the PS3 rather than to "consoles", if your point would claim any value. But yes, i understand what you're saying. Piracy on PC is a problem according to developers.

Still, i think it's not only the Pirate's to blame. I think the platform where games are distributed also needs a look-over, much like the Movie and Music industries are working on. Now services like iTunes, Spotify and Voddler exsists, that delivers a great service where users actully feel its worth coughing up money.

I mean... take MW2 as an example. They go out with info that MW2 for PC is going to get matchmaking instead of dedicated servers. And the PC community feels that this will never work. Had IW released a PC demo, alot of PC gamers might've found out that they could still make it work, i.e they go out and buy the game on release day. But in this case IW drops a bomb, the community is in outrage, and IW just continue on with their everyday life, and later blames the PC community for having a piracy problem.


MW2 360 is well on its way to outselling the top selling PS3 game to date (and is outselling MW2 PS3) and you want to use it as an example of why developers would want to move game development to the PS3 and exclude the 360 and PC?  Please tell everyone you're joking before they start thinking you're a Sony drone living in a fantasy world.

Well, people with good reading comprehension wouldn't think he is a Sony drone at all.

Hahaha.. i love the fact that he bloded everything besides the punchline :D



shio on 17 November 2009
deathgod33 said:
PC gaming will be a faint memory in less than 2 years.

Then why is it outgrowing consoles?!



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mai on 17 November 2009
shio said:
deathgod33 said:
PC gaming will be a faint memory in less than 2 years.

Then why is it outgrowing consoles?!

It won't faint obviously, it just won't happen with few hundred millions (or how many?) of electronic devives on the market that capable of gaming. But denying serious changes of PC game market over the last decade is pointless. Retail business shifted heavily towards home consoles (and I doubt DLC compensates much), but MMOs filled the niche and growing at a fast pace.



shio on 19 November 2009
mai said:
shio said:
deathgod33 said:
PC gaming will be a faint memory in less than 2 years.

Then why is it outgrowing consoles?!

It won't faint obviously, it just won't happen with few hundred millions (or how many?) of electronic devives on the market that capable of gaming. But denying serious changes of PC game market over the last decade is pointless. Retail business shifted heavily towards home consoles (and I doubt DLC compensates much), but MMOs filled the niche and growing at a fast pace.

The retail of PC is transitioning into digital distribution. It's not that the consoles are taking retail over PC, just that PC's sales are evolving into the form of digital distribution. Consoles are also starting to take the same path, although it will take a while to reach where PC has.



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mai on 19 November 2009

shio said:

The retail of PC is transitioning into digital distribution. It's not that the consoles are taking retail over PC, just that PC's sales are evolving into the form of digital distribution. Consoles are also starting to take the same path, although it will take a while to reach where PC has.

Link? To the best of my knowledge Steam, GameTap etc. didn't share info on that matter.



shio on 19 November 2009
mai said:

shio said:

The retail of PC is transitioning into digital distribution. It's not that the consoles are taking retail over PC, just that PC's sales are evolving into the form of digital distribution. Consoles are also starting to take the same path, although it will take a while to reach where PC has.

Link? To the best of my knowledge Steam, GameTap etc. didn't share info on that matter.

They don't share, but there are companies like DFC that are paid to make estimations. in 2008, 22% of total PC games revenue was from Digital Distribution, while 24% was from Retail.

This means that today DD is bigger than retail on PC. What's most important is that Digital Distrubtion is growing so fast, that not only does it cover the steep decline on Retail, but it also gives a very healthy increase in total profits of Retail+DD revenue.

Here's an article about it: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/20/develop-09-is-digital-distribution-the-pc-saviour/

 



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