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I could use a sling and rocks to go hunting, but I prefer a gun.
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I could use a sling and rocks to go hunting, but I prefer a gun.
One thing that's telling about the PC market is when you walk into a store like Gamestop.
when i was younger, these stores had tons of PC games on the shelf.
nowadays, there's like one tiny corner in the very back of the store with like two short shelves with PC games, if that.
the rest of the store is hundreds of console games.
Because DRM has nothing to do with piracy, it has to do with the second hand market.
Console games are still disc check, the disc is in, the disc is original, the game works even if second hand.
PC games come with half the game in a free DLC on day one, and other DRM tricks that are actually rather effective in demolishing the ability to resell them.
The gamestop model is to buy used games for next to nothing and sell them for near full price for tons of profit... of which the copyright holder sees not a single cent. And it denies them an actual sale (unlike piracy which is a potential sale lost, this is a definite lost sale... because the person in question did buy the game... only for slightly less money then full price. If unavailable they would have bought it from copyright holder when the price went down as the game aged)
it's pretty insane what PC gamers spend just on video cards. a video card can cost the same or more than an entire PS3/360. all these $1,000+ rigs, all the questions and research on cooling, power consumption, SSD, and so on, when you can just buy a PS3 for $250 and turn it on and be done with it.
not to mention the dearth of games for PCs in the last decade. when i did most of my gaming on a PC back in the 80s/90s, there were new titles left and right.
One thing that's telling about the PC market is when you walk into a store like Gamestop.
when i was younger, these stores had tons of PC games on the shelf.
nowadays, there's like one tiny corner in the very back of the store with like two short shelves with PC games, if that.
the rest of the store is hundreds of console games.
I hope this sheds more light that fewer and fewer people want to buy desktops anymore. While PC gaming isn't dying (because laptop gaming is still PC gaming, and that market will be a healthy 42% by 2015), desktop sales are declining as a % of the overall market.
The statistics I have seen clearly showed desktop gaming to be growing faster then any other market segment. What do you base your "statistic" on?
Personally, I just can't handle all theose buttons on the console Controller.
How in the world do people play FPS with these thing? What a match with a PC Gamer?
The article provided above was compiled by a Forrester research (see link in post above) which projects that by 2015, desktop PC sales will only be 18% of the entire "PC market".
Can you offer some of these projections or gaming studies you did see?
Yeah the study RS linked to only shows percentage of the market without showing the total market.
The fact is laptops, tablets and notebooks are growing at a faster pace than desktops and outselling them but that is obvious since the starting base for those devices was much smaller due to the fact that until recently the performance of those devices was limited and/or the price was too high.
But that doesn't magically make the installed desktop base disappear and exactly what are the desktop requirements to run games at 30 fps and console resolutions?
I think that for Gaming discrete GPUs are a better indicator although as IGPs become more capable it might be enough.
You are making ridiculous assumptions.
1. their projection is as baseless as nvidia's infamous projection on PC gaming growth and the death of console gaming by 2015. Those chart projections are simply not realistic representations of how humans act.
2. their research shows percentages of total sales which does not account for how many people get both a desktop and laptop. (both can be growing and get their results if laptops grow faster).
3. their research has nothing to do with GAMING. You are the one making it up.
1. Stop yelling, that doesn't make you more right.All major indicators point to the same thing: desktop PCs are declining in importance in the modern world vs. other personal computing devices. Consumers are shifting to the cloud, to laptops, to smartphones, to tablets. The era of glorious desktop PC is far behind us -- the high-end desktop PCs will soon become a niche market. Even since 2008, not projected, but actual PC sales show that PC desktop market as a whole is growing slower than other markets, as a result shrinking as a % of the whole market. That's not assumptions, that's facts.
Percent is shrinking, total amount is increasing. This is why it is so important to actually understand what percent means.It shows that people are currently buying more laptops and are expected to buy more laptops in the future vs. desktops. This is because the % of desktop is shrinking relative to the notebook segment.
The claim, the false fact, that desktop gaming has decreased. As can be clearly seen in the quote belowWhat am I making up? I never said their research is related to gaming.
The shocking part, is if you add Consoles to the chart below, by 2015 desktop PC gaming will likely shrink to less than 10% of the entire market.
but actual PC sales show that PC desktop market as a whole is growing slower than other markets, as a result shrinking as a % of the whole market. That's not assumptions, that's facts.
Why do you guys bother with PC gaming.
Because it's awesome? Somehow I doubt you were alive during the 80s and 90s.
Relative to what a job pays video cards are not prohibitively expensive.
1. Stop yelling, that doesn't make you more right.
3. Desktops are growing slower, but they are still growing.
Laptops can grow faster due to having had much less market penetration.
This whole "people are throwing their desktops in the trash to buy a laptop" thing is rubbish as desktops are still growing.
Them growing slower can easily be attributed to market saturation.
When a person buys a laptop their desktop remains. When they buy a tablet their laptop and desktop remain. When they buy a smartphone their desktop and laptop and tablet remain.
Percent is shrinking, total amount is increasing.
The 27% of 2011 is MORE then then the 45% in 2007... The dekstop market is actually growing, the chart changed.
But the PC platform as a whole is growing.
I see no reasoning as to why the desktop PC gaming platform will suddenly explode. While the desktop PC won't die, it will no longer be at the forefront of innovation or trendy to own. If anything, I think more and more people will buy enthusiast laptops with discrete GPUs.