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PC industry leaders fight back: "The days of the console are numbered" |
Listed in: Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PC Gaming Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Immersion Corporation, Microsoft, nVidia, Roy Taylor
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Business and consumer computer solutions provider Hewlett-Packard, graphics industry contender NVIDIA, Microsoft's PC advocate Games for Windows initiative and even broadband game publisher Trion World Network released a whoosh of hostile air against the next-gen consoles. They were probably outraged as many other hardcore PC fans were at the 2007 Game Developers Conference's "PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles" panel discussion. Instead, the PC industry leaders formed their own panel, bringing in Microsoft's Games for Windows initiative's boss Rich Wickham and Trion World Network's founder Lars Butler, among other representatives of leading PC industry entities.
Lars was also quick to comment, "I believe the days of the console are numbered. There is one more generation of gaming consoles and that is it."
Backing Butler, NVIDIA's VP Roy Taylor upped the PC's ante by stating, "Our advantage as developers is we know what is coming. And what is coming is far ahead of the console. You will see a huge difference between what you can get on a PC and a console."
In line with this, Hewlett-Packard plans to enter the hardcore gaming market by rolling out a new line of gaming-related hardware, possibly even hobbyist PCs, within the year. It's even claimed that they plan to even provide a curved computer monitor for not only widescreen effect, but for full FPS immersion.
Whether or not the PC industry giants can deliver, we cannot tell, but with PC enthusiasts who know exactly how to make full use of their PC's power and console piracy looming over the horizon, consoles may never be able to say "the PC is dead" ever again.
Via CVG
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Console = games
PC = work
It will never change.
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Oh wait, we have had consoles for 2 decades !?
and console are selling millions of times + all the games
Making such a comment is total bull*****
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If you want a high-end PC for playing high-end games you have to pay way more than 600€ (when taking the PS3).
If we speak just about the next-gen graphic cards, you pay as much for the card as you pay for a whole console.
And then there's also the simplicity of consoles: game in, start, play. It's as easy as that.
It depends on what you want. If you want all in one, maybe the PC is the better choice (...even though you can't play console-exclusive games...), but take into consideration that you'll have to pay a lot more money...
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PC + work"
PC + Work + Play
Ever since the first 8-bit micro computers made their way into people's homes in the 80s, computers at home have been used for games. The fact is, as long as people have computers, they will want to play games on them.
The PC is exactly the same, which is why all the predictions over the last 15 years or so of consoles killing PC gaming have been wrong (with each generation of console gamers saying 'Oh but this time it's different'). ;)
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hardware whoring is pc gaming's bigger problem...
if pc gaming isn't slowing down, explain why games like rainbow six vegas is more adapted to the controller than the keyboard and mouse( ubisoft obviously developed it with more consideration for consoles than pc)
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There is no debate that PC titles will continue to look (and play) better and better. The problem is that there are a hell of a lot of gamers out there that are so used to popping in a disc and playing without having to worry about checking system specs.
I know I basically stopped PC gaming when the PS2 came out, and stopped altogether when the 360 came out. No matter how much I might like the mouse/kb combo for FPS games, and no matter how much I might love the next PC title (Crysis, for example), it's not enough to convince me to start pricing out upgrades to my rig in order to be able to actually play the game.
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Fact is, that PC gaming will exist as PC's exist.
Console gaming will exist as long as PC gaming exists.
Every hardware innovation, or nearly every software innovation has come from PC.
Wii-mote - Bah thats mid 90's stuff.
Six Axis - Wooaa so 1991.
'3D' Glasses - lol 97'.
Hell online gaming - early 90's anyone?
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It's hard to understand how they've survived this long.
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oh, also if there were a proper optimised encoding software or soemthing like that on ydl then the cell processor would outstrip most (if not all) current intel cpu's.
lol, developers have an advantage in that they know 'what's coming' - they know exactly how good everyone's console is.
yeah i play the odd pc game, cnc3 is pretty good fun, but i much prefer consoles.
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ive had a 6800GT 256MB card for a while
on a 3.4GHz HT P4
no probs for a long time
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The PC crowd says consoles will die next gen...no..wait...this is the last...no this time is definitely the last time.
they both are retarded...consoles aren't going away...PC is not going away.
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Come on - it's a joke. PCs aren't getting cheaper - MS is making Windows more expensive... the cost of running a PC is higher. And they are frustrating as hell in a completely monopolized market.
***** that!
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If the average gamer wants to/can spend $500+ for a video card and $200+ on a new processor, not to mention all the other things you need to put together a pc.
Oh yea, PC's have a real chance of winning
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You will always find a few with such views, but there numbers are tiny compared to those who think the PC will die. Hence you will find numerous reports and articles over the years in magazines and on websites talking about the possible death of PC gaming, but how many have you ever read talking about the death of games consoles?
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The only time I've seen a question mark over console gaming was during the 16-bit to 32-bit transition in the early-mid 90s, but even then, that was from a sceptical media who knew little about games and assumed it was a passing fad.
The PC crowd tend to boast about technical superiorty, conceeding that whilst new consoles may outperform a PC in certain areas upon release, the PC soon catches up and over takes them.
The arguements console gamers give towards the death of PC gaming has been mostly about cost and features. They tend to think PC gaming is only around because it has features which consoles lack, and as consoles get those features, there's less need for games on PCs. So these arguements arose after the arrival of 3D on consoles, CD-ROM drives, hard disks, online gaming, powerful CPUs, Microsoft entering the market, PC-based GPUs etc.
In contrast, there's no compelling arguement PC gamers put forward to suggest that the NEXT gen of consoles will be the last, and therefore you really don't see such comments being made, except perhaps from a fanboy trying to provoke other gamers.
So I agree that neither consoles or PCs are going to go away, but I don't agree that many PC gamers think consoles will die next gen.
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