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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:34 am Post subject: Valve's Doug Lombardi: PC Gaming Is Not Dying [25362] |
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Shacknews has conducted an interview with Valve big boss Doug Lombardi who laughs in the face of PC gaming death: Shack: Do you guys ever get tired of the same old "PC Gaming Is Dying" stories? Doug Lombardi: I mean, I think, we sort of laugh at it. Because we\'ve been wildly successful-
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| Quote: | But talking purely in terms of the Wii, the PS3, and the 360, if you added those together and looked at the whole picture, I'd bet you PC would be even, if not bigger than those three systems in terms of the money that's changing hands and the opportunity for doing business.
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Nice play on words...  Like we are talking software sales not hardware components nor PR deals etc. If you were to just talk about hardware component sales, then obviously the PC wins hands over fists! Why else are there PC components to buy at rediculous prices, if they were not making money?
But since we are really talking about game software sales -hard units and not virtual downloads, Mr. Lombardi, off of 'your' server. Then the Wii with one sale of Super Smash Brothers Brawl walks all over any PC sales in US alone of one PC software title:
Most nearly all companies make a pittance from PC sales and Along comes Valve who -because they make money, say that everyone else must be making money too. Narrow minded idiots!
No wonder the PC is a joke with idiots like this out there with the blinkers on....
Valve, a world unto itself  I bet he runs an ostrich farm too?..
Plus of course 'the Orange Box' was released on Console, just exactly how much revenue did Valve make from that little venture?? Minus PC sales....i bet it's a different picture 
Nintendo,Sony and MS are the ONLY money makers out there, since these are the ONLY consoles out there.
Valve are NOT a console maker and neither are any others. Once they put their services into console titles; Take2/Rockstar for eg GTA# then they make money. But not on PC.
Get the facts right Lombard!
PC per se, will NEVER die. But as game software sales are what drives this ego drive, then the PC is a very poor last. Only on non hardware intensive titles does it make money; Sims and expansions etc or basic online titles.
EA would be the only original PC software firm that still makes money and proper sales on PC today -regardless if it's through sports titles, but it's as a combined total not as a *single* title as with the consoles. |
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