Weekend tech reading: 12 ways consoles hurt PC gaming

[pcnthuziast]

Just remember folks that PC gaming isn't dying, it's being murdered... systematically.

 

[TeamworkGuy2]

... my two cent for our number 1 post : it doesn't matter which platform you are playing onto, it's all about the fun you are having.

there are wonderful games on each & every platform & most are exclusive to their systems, only multiplats suffers the various effects enumerated so as long as we don't put all eggs into same basket & we try to see why & where we want to play something, it's all fine.

no one ever also said that a gamer should have only 1 platform, well i don't. to reply to some (a few in fact) early comments, is being a pc / network / telecom techy working for a big isp & having a PC for gaming makes me a highly intelligent gamer to your eyes or is the fact that i also game on my ps3 makes me dumb !!? ...

I agree, gaming is not exclusive to one platform, if a gamer owns a PC or xbox or PS3 or wii, it does not really matter to me.
Personally, I see the developer community's choice to switch to consoles as a time saving, cost effective way to make profit. All consoles of type X contain the same hardware, which makes programing a game infinitely easier and makes troubleshooting, updating, and play testing much easier.
We all look out for ourselves, how can we blame developers for doing the same thing, we all want a raise, cheaper gas prices, more for less, and for developers, consoles are currently the best way to get more money with less effort.

I have an idea, lets all band together as PC gamers and all build computer's with the exact same hardware, then announce to game developers that we will all buy 10 (to make up for the number of console gamers) copies of the next PC game they release specifically for our hardware.

PM me if you want to start such an organization. We can decided on the hardware standard and which developers to contact first. Beware that at the moment I can't afford to build a computer, because I just built one...

 

[Richy2k9]

hello ...

@ TeamworkGuy2 - thank you, if i could i would give you 1000 thumbs up ...

& by the way you are right about developers going the easy way & your idea is so cool, let's do so & we shall then ... wait a minute !!! we will call it another console .. .. you have my respect!

cheers!

 

[Mizzou]

Came across this article over on benchmark reviews discussing this topic from a slightly different perspective. Don't necessarily agree with all the points the author is trying to make but he does make some valid observations ... especially regarding the revenue aspects of the business.

How Video Games Killed Desktop PC Computing

 

[ramonsterns]

TeamworkGuy2 said:

... my two cent for our number 1 post : it doesn't matter which platform you are playing onto, it's all about the fun you are having.

there are wonderful games on each & every platform & most are exclusive to their systems, only multiplats suffers the various effects enumerated so as long as we don't put all eggs into same basket & we try to see why & where we want to play something, it's all fine.

no one ever also said that a gamer should have only 1 platform, well i don't. to reply to some (a few in fact) early comments, is being a pc / network / telecom techy working for a big isp & having a PC for gaming makes me a highly intelligent gamer to your eyes or is the fact that i also game on my ps3 makes me dumb !!? ...

I agree, gaming is not exclusive to one platform, if a gamer owns a PC or xbox or PS3 or wii, it does not really matter to me.
Personally, I see the developer community's choice to switch to consoles as a time saving, cost effective way to make profit. All consoles of type X contain the same hardware, which makes programing a game infinitely easier and makes troubleshooting, updating, and play testing much easier.
We all look out for ourselves, how can we blame developers for doing the same thing, we all want a raise, cheaper gas prices, more for less, and for developers, consoles are currently the best way to get more money with less effort.

I have an idea, lets all band together as PC gamers and all build computer's with the exact same hardware, then announce to game developers that we will all buy 10 (to make up for the number of console gamers) copies of the next PC game they release specifically for our hardware.

PM me if you want to start such an organization. We can decided on the hardware standard and which developers to contact first. Beware that at the moment I can't afford to build a computer, because I just built one...

Why would I want to be stupid and be stuck with someone else's subpar computer design? Also, you argument is stupid due to the fact that Console games are as buggy if not more than PC games.

Why don't we just come out and admit that game developers have been getting lazy?