On Jan 14, 6:41 pm, Morgan <nos...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> >> That's one example, Bioshock on the other hand ran fine maxed out on a
> >> mid range PC of the day.
>
> > I have to mostly agree with Almighty on his comments really. I mean, I
> > am an avid PC gamer but only for a niche set of games, and I just built
> > a really expensive rig ($4K) and most people are not going to go that
> > route because most (typical) gamers feel just fine with the console
> > games, they are happy with what they offer
>
> At the minute yes, but I'm talking about now, I'm talking
> hypothetically, if a new console doesn't come out for over two more years
Weren't you and I like the only ones in the newsgroup who were saying
that Microsoft *should* come out with another Xbox 360 in the near
future?
Unfortunately, we're in the vast minority. Most people don't even want
to pay another $400 for a new console. Why would they want to pay
$800+ for a half-decent gaming PC?
> > (look at Wii sales!!).
>
> You can't really count the Wii, it's not a gamers console.
According to your comments about what you need for a half-decent FPS
(the biggest genre in consoles) gaming experience, neither are the 360
or PS3.
And you have to count the Wii unless you want to only refer to the
shrinking subset of the total gaming market that is made up of "core"
gamers. Even most 360 and PS3 owners aren't gamers to the degree that
we here are. Most have never played "core" PC games.
> > I am,
> > for the most part, one of them, except I am an RPG freak, they are
> > better on PC, but I somehow think that won't last much longer going into
> > the next gen.
> >The PC market is certainly not dead, but it is a nearly
> > complete shell of its former self and game sales and especially hardware
> > sales even reflect that.
>
> That's my point and the point that a couple of people seem to ignore.
> I'm not saying that the PC will make some massive comeback I'm simply
> saying that it will probably have a slight but noticeable improvement if
Marginal improvement, maybe.
> the next generation of consoles doesn't come out PDQ, and that it's not
> dead, as die-hard console fanatics seem to think. They seem to read
> this as "the PC will come to conquer us all."
>
> > Hell, even over the past year or so, the console gaming industry has
> > suffered a bit from sales, so I don't think that PC sales for gamers are
> > going to somehow leap consoles,
>
> I've been very clear and said that I don't think this will happen either.
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