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PC To Be The Gaming Platform For The Future

June 29, 2008 in News comments 8

Console companies are bombarding us with marketing and titles, but the PC looks to be the way of the future, according to Valve. In the years to come, we may see the PC emerge as the gaming platform of choice.

PC gaming looks to be in trouble on the surface, but according to Gabe Newell and the Valve team, looks can be deceiving. Coming from the makers of Steam and the Orange Box, we should be inclined to listen. And if they have their way, the PC will be the choice of a new gaming generation.
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    ali3n Jun 29, 08
    It will be when it stops forcing people to spend a couple of hundred pounds every year in order to play the newer games.
    • 2
      VeGiTAX2 Jun 30, 08
      It will be when oh wait, I haven't upgraded in 3 years and I can still play new games and even when I upgraded I re-used most of my parts from my previous build in the end only spending a few hundred dollars for a system that'll last me about 4 years. D:

      Educated buyers are what the pc industry needs, not fools buying the latest $50 "gaming" card getting mad when the card that barely ran present gen games is unable to run titles a year later.

      the HD 4850 is $189 at most places right now and it'll last you well past 2-3 years. The previous generation 3850 is $110 and you can still find it on shelves and it wasn't a bottom end card it was a mid/high range card presented for affordable gaming with high details.

      It helps when people focus on things making headway for pricing instead of the GTX 280 for $700 assuming it speaks for all video cards.

      Just because a Blackbird 002 is $6600 it doesn't mean you need to dump that much to have a good experience, you can do it for an extreme fraction of the price and it'll last you YEARS.

      The generic pre-conceptions still remain and garbage like "you need to like upgrade like every like year cuz like the price is like so much and like the hardware is old" which never stops to amaze me, if something new comes out, it doesn't mean you need to get it, it just means that by the time you might want to upgrade, things will actually have advanced and you don't have to worry about essentially buying the same product in 3 years with just a higher clock speed.
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        ali3n Jun 30, 08
        I perhaps exaggerated quite a bit but none the less there are numerous other factors which affect it none the less. For example if you really want to save money building a customized PC is the way to go but how many people actually know how to do that or will actually want to learn how to? Now compare that to a console which you simply take out a box and plug in and you're pretty much good to go. It's things like this which stop it from being number one for gaming.
        • 1
          VeGiTAX2 Jun 30, 08
          You then ignore the PC gaming alliance being formed by industry players to bring affordable spec pc's for gaming to the masses in the coming years. Things like the AMD GAME! initiative as well as others.

          Regardless of being stuck with an OEM it doesn't exempt you from researching the components in the machine. If you willingly buy a system with an X3100 despite there being thousands of posts about how awful it is then you probably deserve what you ended up with for being above researching your system like anything else on this planet before buying it.

          I'd give those initiatives with OEM's time to materialize before going on about how $200 systems equipped with linux will be the downfall of pc gaming.
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          ali3n Jun 30, 08
          Hm, I did not know about these plans to bring affordable spec PCs to the masses. Oh well, you've proved your point.
  • 0
    Storm Jun 30, 08
    Unless PC games get some offline multiplayer going, I doubt it'd be the only 'gaming platform' around, let alone my first choice for a console. I'd rather have the offline MP fighting games and such, it's what my friends and I usually play.
    • 1
      VeGiTAX2 Jun 30, 08
      Indeed so, it'd be odd to think that 4 people would want to cram onto a 19 - 22" screen. MP offline has always been a problem for the PC market and for the most part it seems to rely on free MP online gaming for pretty much all outside MMO's.
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    Agrias Jun 30, 08
    It depends on what type of games...I doubt it will be in action and survival horror games.

    In games like sims, it is; with no doubt.

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