Next-Gen Consoles to be the Death of PC Gaming?
That's the scenario presented by C|Net editorialist David Carnoy. He argues that the price of a new console versus the price of a PC gaming rig will have gamers migrating their gaming habits to the couch and using the extra dough on items such as an HDTV. Even if they're only upgrading the video card, a $300-$400 console sounds better than a $400-$500 cutting-edge video card.
The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games. (Unlike PC games, the console manufacturers get a royalty for each game sold on their respective systems.) Other things being equal, the DIY-heavy PC-gaming industry can't hope to compete in that kind of market.So with PC game sales either declining or remaining stagnant over the past few years and the fact that big-name titles are also landing on a console (Quake 4, Prey, Alan Wake, UT2K7), do you believe PC gaming is going the way of the arcade, losing its business to the consoles?
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SilverSnake
reply*points and laughs*
But seriously, PC Gaming might stall for a while when consoles are new and shiny and possibly outperforms PCs, but once PCs pulls ahead again, in a year or two, then all the graphicphiles will rush back to upgrading their PCs and it'll all go back to where it is now.
And not everyone wants to play with a controll, mouse/keyboard in their sofa or on a TV. And consoles can never replace LAN parties (or well, they could, but it doesn't seem like they are bound to anytime soon).-
I always thought plugging in 3 other controllers was much easier than getting 3 friends to lug their computers over and try to install and patch everything.
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I think he is saying that he has a better times when his friends are right next to him on the couch playing with him. I know I do. The internet is so plain even with voice tech that we have now in some games. I know that as soon as these consoles offer me the ability to play with a keyboard and mouse on every single game, then I will switch and not look back.
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yes, I can use it with my Xbox too. I was talking about LAN parties though like in the original post which are often a major hassle compared to just plugging in a few extra controllers (or even system linking a couple Xboxes)
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Well, yes... Gaming with three buddies infront of the TV is awesome. I do it all the time. It's one of the biggest reasons I got a Gamecube.
But with LAN parties I mean groups of maybe 8, 20 or 100 people.
Anybody seriously think that QuakeCon 2006 or 2007 will be focused around the 360 or PS3?-
8-16 people is quite doable with the Xbox. Any more than that and it's fun but I'm not paying out the ass for the ability to do that once a year. I guess if you have 20 friends with high powered rigs it might be worth it. I don't have nearly that many friends though, and even fewer with machines that could play something like BF2.
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