The death of pc gaming

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consoles dont stand a chance at destroying PC gaming. There may be highs and lows but never a crash. I do believe it can be possible for PCs to completely destroy console gaming if PCs became more efficient and accessible to dumb people.

One thing that is still a huge negative for consoles is that you have to have the disk in the thing to play the game, and the casual gaming environment a console is put in isn't the kind of place that CDs/DVDs last. Nearly every console I've seen has been kept in the lving room, where people eat, drink and smoke a lot, and don't look after the disks, leaving them out of the boxes too often.

At least with a PC you install the game completely onto the hard drive, and can fit a big enough drive to do this with as many games as you want. You can also get no-cd patches for practically every game, so you don't end up wearing out your disks and ruining your copy of the games.

PCs are going to become a lot more gamer friendly, as Nvidia and AMD are both going to be working on graphics processors that are integrated into the motherboard, and both companies produce gaming GPUs. Intel will have to improve it's built in GPUs to compete, so won't be able to keep shipping it's shoddy GMA series any more. That means even the most basic computers will have the capability to play 3D games at a similar quality to consoles.

With the class action lawsuit against Microsoft (that will probably spill over to include Intel) over their branding of computers as 'Vista Ready', where they had low end GPUs from Intel that couldn't run Aero, in future your basic Vista computer is going to need better graphics, just to run the Aero interface.

Yeah I used to PC game a lot but not really anymore. There are some good games that come out, like crysis, but you need such a good pc to play that it's only worth it on a high end system. Also, the RTS games take forever to learn well enough to be good online, and all the players are as*holes. I took counter strike off my PC and refuse to reinstall. I have never played an MMO. Consoles have the good stuff now... my fave game is guitar hero/rock band. You can get guitar hero 3 for pc... but it just wouldn't be the same.

It's a shame. Ny PC can piss all over the latests consoles on how well games perform on it.

^^it's about bang for buck now. I just don't think it's worth it anymore to spend several thousand dollars so I can play the prettiest FPS at max settings alone in my room. They aren't enough good PC games out for me to justify the price of a new high end PC. I would rather spend the same money on a huge TV and a PS3, at least then I can have people over to enjoy it aswell.

It isn't also fair because the Simpsons game looks good, but I only got a PC. The best PC games are usually God like games like Sims.

I got Simpsons Hit and Run, but I can't find the cheats because it wasn't usually designed for PCs. I demand more PCs games that usually good games on PS and other counsels.

Publishers are tired of gambling on the PC market. It costs money for them to add copy protection to their games, to continually release patches for rushed games. Consumers are tired of buying games that don't run on their hardware/OS, are rife with bugs...unable to return a game when the copy protection prevents it from running. PC gaming is a niche market now.

The games themselves are being geared more towards people who just want to grab a beer, jump on the couch, and mash buttons mindlessly for an hour or two. Consoles are a lot harder to pirate games for. If they decide to put out a PC port, it'll be some shoddy effort by a third party.

I wouldn't say PC gaming is dead...just that game developers are aiming at a much different audience than they were fifteen years ago.

They would rather have 2 or 3 systems to develop for than a multitude, since each PC, is, in effect, a different system from the next one (unless they have identical components), instead of the console in which every console is exactly the same pre-fabricated item...