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Gameguru Mania News - Jul,10 2009 -

Who Killed PC Gaming? - briefly
(hx) 09:19 PM CEST - Jul,10 2009 - Post a comment / read (6)

IndustryGamers has posted an opinion article called 'Who Killed PC Gaming?': Before anyone gets up in arms about this, we know for a fact that PC gaming is evolving right now and not dying off. There's a well established indie scene on PCs and casual games have become a booming business. Online games, particularly titles like World of Warcraft and MapleStory, have taken off and browser-based games might become a force to be reckoned with very soon. And yes, there's still a dedicated group of gamers out there that swear by their gaming PC. Certainly, as long as PCs exist, people will play games on them.

However, when we talk about the "death of PC gaming" anyone who follows the industry should know what we mean. On retail shelves, less and less space is allocated to PC titles. Increasingly, multi-platform developers are treating the PC like a secondary priority. The PC used to get many games before consoles, and now it's often the other way around. And then there are games like Gears of War 2 which won't even be coming to PC at all. Core gaming on the PC isn't what it once was, and the situation isn't likely to get much better with time. According to NPD, PC games totaled just $701 million in 2008, which is down 14 percent from 2007.

last 10 comments:

Ozieo	(11:20 PM CEST - Jul,10 2009 )
The better the graphics and copy protections, the lower the sales, ain't that a shame ? Anyone know the word "fun" still ? :roll:

Genoism	(11:56 PM CEST - Jul,10 2009 )
wonder if this has anything to do to piracy hmmm....can't be...

Renton	(12:06 AM CEST - Jul,11 2009 )
Always NPD... we talk later when Steam and Direct2Drive are taking places in their stupid numbers.

Jelster

(04:55 AM CEST - Jul,11 2009 )

Genoism> wonder if this has anything to do to piracy hmmm....can't be...

You're joking right? Piracy is the biggest smoke screen fallacy of the entertainment media I've ever heard. It's killed music, movies, books and games... oh wait no it hasn't.

I've yet to ever see any quantifiable evidence of piracy's impact on bottom line or how it's lost people their living. Instead we're treated to download figures or poor sales number on the PC compared to the consoles. Oh and the inability for people to analyse beyond parroting their favourite Dev's piracy mantra.

Really, do you think that people who pirated on the PC habitually didn't start doing so on the 360 years ago? Don't you think it a little weird that the PC game industry is dying at the hands of piracy and yet the 360 is a vibrant profitable platform? Despite the 360 being easier to pirate on.

tub0rg

(03:06 PM CEST - Jul,11 2009 )

beside the fact that online distribution is much more common now on pc, with steam and other platforms wich probably if taken into account would eat up the decline in sales alone, no body seems to mention that there is a lot of cash going into mmos on pc. much more then on consoles. of course we buy less games if we chunk out 15 bucks a month for our main game.

and honestly gears of war may be ok on consoles but it was one of the worst shooters i played on pc in years. i couldn't even get myself to play it halfway though on pc and i play fps games since doom fanatically.

Sabot

(04:40 PM CEST - Jul,11 2009 )

Jelster> Genoism> wonder if this has anything to do to piracy hmmm....can't be...

You're joking right? Piracy is the biggest smoke screen fallacy of the entertainment media I've ever heard. It's killed music, movies, books and games... oh wait no it hasn't.

I've yet to ever see any quantifiable evidence of piracy's impact on bottom line or how it's lost people their living. Instead we're treated to download figures or poor sales number on the PC compared to the consoles. Oh and the inability for people to analyse beyond parroting their favourite Dev's piracy mantra.

Really, do you think that people who pirated on the PC habitually didn't start doing so on the 360 years ago? Don't you think it a little weird that the PC game industry is dying at the hands of piracy and yet the 360 is a vibrant profitable platform? Despite the 360 being easier to pirate on.
Absolutely, Like Half Life 2 was the most hacked and pirated game on the net at one time, yet still sold millions to become the best selling game for years!
Look at it like this; When sales are poor it's piracy
When sales are great; The PC is the best gaming platform. :roll:
Four biggest things that killed PC gaming for me in 14-15years of building my own gaming rigs.
1)Poorly supported, over priced, quickly superceded OSs
2)Overpriced, overhyped, superceded graphic cards.
3)Garbage produced PC games software, that needs a years worth of patches to be 'compatible' with your system or runs like a bag of spanners on a $hit hot thousands of bucks rig with SLI -case in question Empire Total War (not that i have SLI etc lol)
4)Work!! :lol: Now i just want to switch on and play instantly and then switch off by means of my PS3, oh, and of course watch my weekly Blue Ray movie on my 46" Sony and chill 8)