Console versus PC Gaming and the State of PC Gaming

[CKent]

Consoles currently fill a niche by bringing gaming to your living room with good multiplayer, something PCs haven't been able to do. But soon everyone's TV will be 1920x1080, not the ~700x~500 they've been for so long. This will get a nice boost early next year when the switch is made. SFF PCs are coping better with their pitfalls (noise, heat) and getting smaller as PCs on the whole get cheaper. The more people buy them the cheaper economics of scale will allow them to be. Hopefully all of these factors will coalesce and snowball, crowding consoles out of their niche. It wouldn't hurt if developers started offering multiplayer for PC games... Unles the console makers actively fight this trend - something they may very well do - I see consoles dying out by 2020. It may prove more expensive to fight than it's worth for them though.

 

[bullbert]

Originally posted by: CKent
Consoles currently fill a niche by bringing gaming to your living room with good multiplayer, something PCs haven't been able to do. But soon everyone's TV will be 1920x1080, not the ~700x~500 they've been for so long. This will get a nice boost early next year when the switch is made. SFF PCs are coping better with their pitfalls (noise, heat) and getting smaller as PCs on the whole get cheaper. The more people buy them the cheaper economics of scale will allow them to be. Hopefully all of these factors will coalesce and snowball, crowding consoles out of their niche. It wouldn't hurt if developers started offering multiplayer for PC games... Unles the console makers actively fight this trend - something they may very well do - I see consoles dying out by 2020. It may prove more expensive to fight than it's worth for them though.

Strange, I remember PCs bringing gaming to my living room in the 1980s, and PCs games with good multiplayer in the 1990s. Just because the tech illiterate still do not know how to hook up a PC to a TV or still do not know the internet existed before 2001, does not mean that consoles invented both. Also, PC based PVRs existed before TiVOs and ReplayTVs.

Remember that the last two generations of consoles are nothing but closed architecture PCs, following a similar hardware strategy dating back to the 1980s when Apple cancelled the Apple II product line and forcing the Macintosh product line. I do not ever see the consoles dying out, though, until the courts are forced to intervene to invalidate the 1980s hardware patent precedences from applying to the 2000s software that executes on these close architecture PCs (consoles).

 

[Azeroth101]

Originally posted by: dmw16
I used to be a die-hard PC gamer (up until college in 2001). I was very critical of consoles: controls sucked, not nearly as powerful, no online options, graphics were poor, etc.

However, I now don't even have a gaming PC (or PC at all) and have been content for a long while (although with Crysis and a few other games that is changing). I have found that since my gaming time is limited with a full life (work, friends, wife, family, etc) that flopping on the couch for an hour or so after work is a much better fit for my life style then sitting in front of my PC.

Also, the games I find myself playing most of the time work best on a console; namely platformers and Madden. Although I play shooters too, I still can't say I like the controls on my console for that style of games - rather I just accept that they are inferior and move on.

With all that said, my new hackintosh will be set to dual boot with Windows because there are PC games I find myself very interested in.

I am not sure where I am going with this I guess I am just rambling. I think the reality is, both platforms offer something that the other doesn't and both sides are wrong to declare the other a lesser platform.

in no way and a console overpower a pc, its just a shrunk down version

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Azeroth101

Originally posted by: dmw16
I used to be a die-hard PC gamer (up until college in 2001). I was very critical of consoles: controls sucked, not nearly as powerful, no online options, graphics were poor, etc.

However, I now don't even have a gaming PC (or PC at all) and have been content for a long while (although with Crysis and a few other games that is changing). I have found that since my gaming time is limited with a full life (work, friends, wife, family, etc) that flopping on the couch for an hour or so after work is a much better fit for my life style then sitting in front of my PC.

Also, the games I find myself playing most of the time work best on a console; namely platformers and Madden. Although I play shooters too, I still can't say I like the controls on my console for that style of games - rather I just accept that they are inferior and move on.

With all that said, my new hackintosh will be set to dual boot with Windows because there are PC games I find myself very interested in.

I am not sure where I am going with this I guess I am just rambling. I think the reality is, both platforms offer something that the other doesn't and both sides are wrong to declare the other a lesser platform.

in no way and a console overpower a pc, its just a shrunk down version

Way to necro a dead thread with a worthless post...

 

[EnzoLT]

Originally posted by: Maximilian

Originally posted by: Azeroth101

Originally posted by: dmw16
I used to be a die-hard PC gamer (up until college in 2001). I was very critical of consoles: controls sucked, not nearly as powerful, no online options, graphics were poor, etc.

However, I now don't even have a gaming PC (or PC at all) and have been content for a long while (although with Crysis and a few other games that is changing). I have found that since my gaming time is limited with a full life (work, friends, wife, family, etc) that flopping on the couch for an hour or so after work is a much better fit for my life style then sitting in front of my PC.

Also, the games I find myself playing most of the time work best on a console; namely platformers and Madden. Although I play shooters too, I still can't say I like the controls on my console for that style of games - rather I just accept that they are inferior and move on.

With all that said, my new hackintosh will be set to dual boot with Windows because there are PC games I find myself very interested in.

I am not sure where I am going with this I guess I am just rambling. I think the reality is, both platforms offer something that the other doesn't and both sides are wrong to declare the other a lesser platform.

in no way and a console overpower a pc, its just a shrunk down version

Way to necro a dead thread with a worthless post...

likewise

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: EnzoLT

Originally posted by: Maximilian

Originally posted by: Azeroth101

Originally posted by: dmw16
I used to be a die-hard PC gamer (up until college in 2001). I was very critical of consoles: controls sucked, not nearly as powerful, no online options, graphics were poor, etc.

However, I now don't even have a gaming PC (or PC at all) and have been content for a long while (although with Crysis and a few other games that is changing). I have found that since my gaming time is limited with a full life (work, friends, wife, family, etc) that flopping on the couch for an hour or so after work is a much better fit for my life style then sitting in front of my PC.

Also, the games I find myself playing most of the time work best on a console; namely platformers and Madden. Although I play shooters too, I still can't say I like the controls on my console for that style of games - rather I just accept that they are inferior and move on.

With all that said, my new hackintosh will be set to dual boot with Windows because there are PC games I find myself very interested in.

I am not sure where I am going with this I guess I am just rambling. I think the reality is, both platforms offer something that the other doesn't and both sides are wrong to declare the other a lesser platform.

in no way and a console overpower a pc, its just a shrunk down version

Way to necro a dead thread with a worthless post...

likewise

likewise

 

[Liberator21]

likewise douche

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Azeroth101

Originally posted by: dmw16
I used to be a die-hard PC gamer (up until college in 2001). I was very critical of consoles: controls sucked, not nearly as powerful, no online options, graphics were poor, etc.

However, I now don't even have a gaming PC (or PC at all) and have been content for a long while (although with Crysis and a few other games that is changing). I have found that since my gaming time is limited with a full life (work, friends, wife, family, etc) that flopping on the couch for an hour or so after work is a much better fit for my life style then sitting in front of my PC.

Also, the games I find myself playing most of the time work best on a console; namely platformers and Madden. Although I play shooters too, I still can't say I like the controls on my console for that style of games - rather I just accept that they are inferior and move on.

With all that said, my new hackintosh will be set to dual boot with Windows because there are PC games I find myself very interested in.

I am not sure where I am going with this I guess I am just rambling. I think the reality is, both platforms offer something that the other doesn't and both sides are wrong to declare the other a lesser platform.

in no way and a console overpower a pc, its just a shrunk down version

Holy shit, if you're going to dig up an old-ass thread at least do so in English. Jesus.

 

[Ackmed]

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