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[ggrobot]

PC.IGN has a surprisingly good editorial called \'Why PC?\' Here\'s an excerpt:

The difference between the console and PC markets is kind of like the difference between network and cable TV. NCIS and Dancing with the Stars will always have more mass appeal than Iron Chef or SpongeBob simply because they\'re designed

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[Tom]

Yep it's a nice read.

[Sabot]

No one in their right mind doubts the PCs back catalogue of the best games, probably, ever produced. It's simply HUGE and untouchable.
I myself still have a legacy machine which is the ORIGINAL games rig of it's day built with hi-mem,expanded-mem.sys etc boot menu for running ALL DOS 6.22 games and a seperate boot menu for win 95/98se. I wouldn't have a games list of nearly 500 in two chests encompassing most of the best games ever released if it wasn't for it.
But this is the past, and always will. Everything PC has moved on, games companies are gone,budgets gone etc,etc.
The skills to produce PC games of such calibre are gone too -time equals money, as we all know.
Short games or easy to run games are profitable for not just consoles, but for phones to. It's a 'quick fix' world now. He talks about 20 years of gaming, well i'm a lot,lot longer than that but seriously 15years of my own dedicated PC building,customising and PURE game loving are there.

Put this into perspective; 15-20 years ago we were -some of us anyway- just in the EARLY throes of have mobiles, Cable TV or hand-held gaming.
You can't go on and on compairing the PC 'then to now'.
He goes on about having certain genres for HIM specificaly? Well i had that too with mil flight sims and Mech Warrior. But these companies DIED YEARS ago! So why was i to hang onto the past repeating history from the early 90's????
To be honest, he may as well be describing moving to a foreign country and missing eating french toast for the past 20years. What he likes and misses will not even remotely pass by the average PC gamer of the same generation. I know what i liked hardly EVER crossed the same paths of my fellow PC gamers
Can never understand why PC gamers still live in the past....? Sure it's nostalgic and i can bring out my old 17" IIYAMA diamond trinitron (75Hrz), with Matrox Mystique 4mb on a pass thru with a Diamond Monster 3D 2mb in 3DFX, but why?

Consoles are media machines, not JUST games. Sure the controllers can be annoying and some games would work better with a mouse/keyboard but it's like trying to buy a CRT now, you CAN'T. LCDs are the norm and you just have to move on or live in some stupid perpetual 'i remember when....' moment constantly.
Read or listen to book on the bus/train with a hand-held console or phone. Play a game with anyone on wi-fi when ever, wherever.
The poster is missing the whole point about PC gaming; it's isolating -without a HIGH quality laptop.
Portabilty,ease of use and FUN are what today is about. If you have lived 'the past' isn't it surely GOOD to embrace the future??
It is for me. Although i can live the past anytime i want but it's NOTHING to shout about after 15+years to gamers today.