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What can save PC Gaming?

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klah

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One hope: Can downloading save the PC games market?

That is the way MS is headed.

Microsoft Selects Exent Technologies As Worldwide Games-on-Demand Partner for PC Games
August 15, 2005

Microsoft has signed Exent Technologies, the global market leader in secure digital delivery of games on-demand, to be Microsoft?s first worldwide aggregation partner for Games-on-Demand.

Microsoft has granted Exent the right to aggregate Microsoft PC games, including titles from the popular Age of Empires®, Age of Mythology®, Dungeon Siege®, Mechwarrior®, Rise of Nations® and Zoo Tycoon® product lines, making some of the most popular game properties available worldwide for the first time over broadband through Exent?s network of Games-on-Demand service providers.

Exent-powered Games-on-Demand services enable gamers to quickly obtain full-version games without the need to fully download them to their machines. The EXEtender? technology solution helps players to enjoy a console-like gaming experience on the PC platform."
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Revenue

US PC Game Software Sales (adjusted for inflation in italics)
1998 - $1.8 billion ($2.1 B)
1999 - $1.9 billion ($2.17 B)
2000 - $1.78 billion ($1.98 B) (84.9 million units)
2001 - $1.75 billion ($1.90 B) (83.6 million units)
2002 - $1.4 billion ($1.49 B) (61.5 million units)
2003 - $1.2 billion ($1.26 B) (52.8 million units)
2004 - $1.1 billion ($1.13 B) (45 million units) [even with Doom3, HL2 and Far Cry]
2005(H1) - down 10.5%


US Console & Handheld Game Software Sales
1998 - $3.7 billion
1999 - $4.2 billion
2000 - $4.1 billion (130.6 million units)
2001 - $4.6 billion (141.5 million units)
2002 - $5.5 billion (162.8 million units)
2003 - $5.8 billion (186.4 million units)
2004 - $6.2 billion (203 million units)
2005(H1) - up 22%

When will PC game sales finally hit bottom? $750M, $500M... WGF 2.0?
Revenue is down over 50% in just five years, this certainly can't continue for the rest of the decade.
 
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okay i said it all no one feed the troll
 
I'd like to see more games that actually work released. You know, games I can play before the 1.9 patch is released two and a half years later.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd like to see more games that actually work released. You know, games I can play before the 1.9 patch is released two and a half years later.
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Exactly.

CS:S/HL2 still had some pretty decent even a few months after it is out.

More games need an engine like the Source engine though. I dont want to buy a new PC for every game I buy. I want to be able to play it decently on a crappy system, then have it able to scale and look great on a better system.
 
Originally posted by: Son of a N00b

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MS's announcement about streaming/downloadable games was a few days go and the article I cited is from yesterday.

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The purpose of this forum is to make $$ and pay Anand's mortgage. This section has the most traffic, hence more ad impressions per thread. I am doing Anand a favor by posting here instead of one of the less trafficked forums.

 
Originally posted by: ssvegeta1010
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd like to see more games that actually work released. You know, games I can play before the 1.9 patch is released two and a half years later.
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Exactly.

CS:S/HL2 still had some pretty decent even a few months after it is out.

More games need an engine like the Source engine though. I dont want to buy a new PC for every game I buy. I want to be able to play it decently on a crappy system, then have it able to scale and look great on a better system.
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dude the source engine is lame
 
New ideas could save the industry.
I'm not interested in the eleventy-billionth rehashes of old games. Why can't they produce games like Fallout, X-Com, Freespace or Worms any longer?
 
Originally posted by: Kalbi
Originally posted by: ssvegeta1010
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd like to see more games that actually work released. You know, games I can play before the 1.9 patch is released two and a half years later.
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Exactly.

CS:S/HL2 still had some pretty decent even a few months after it is out.

More games need an engine like the Source engine though. I dont want to buy a new PC for every game I buy. I want to be able to play it decently on a crappy system, then have it able to scale and look great on a better system.
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dude the source engine is lame
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but Kalbi is delicious! i think ill have some of that tonight with some Soju 😀
 
by making games that can run on older systems. its gotten to where you need a $1500 system (unless you build it yourself) to run modern games. kids cant just pick up a title and play it on their parents' crap dell. the hardware market is just too complex for the layman to understand. blizzard is the exception here, since their games really do run on almost everything- starcraft2! please. save us. 🙂
 
what about releasing good games with new ideas and concepts instead of rehashing the same old thing over and over? oh wait, that doesnt happen when corporations *cough* EA *cough* limit creativity
 
I don't think the PC market is slipping for any of the reasons listed above, I think it's slipping because people are tired of not being able to play games on their dated machine or spyware infested machine and when things don't go right, they just give up. So they buy a console knowing for a fact the game should work at optimum speed or at least not run faster than others 😉
 
Originally posted by: MustangSVT
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
By keeping getting rid of all the non mature players.
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Or, by getting rid of people who cant speak english. 😀
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Hehehe, was going back and forth between everquest and must have typed something meant for my party😱
 
mods are killing PC games much more than piracy is. If I play CS 6 years after Half Life comes out for my entire gaming session, why would I buy more games?
 
When 3.6 million people can buy WOW and play it for 5 years without having to buy another game (and fork over $12x12mox5year=~$700 in that time), do you really think computer gaming is dead?

Note that the values you listed are for software sales, not for the continuing subscription costs.
 
Concentrate on gameplay more than graphics? I play all these new games nowadays and I get bored within an hour versus MOH for example which I played for years.
 
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