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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
I will never understand why people keep saying this. They've been saying it every time a new more powerful generation of consoles is released. If you want to play an MMO or an RTS or a true RPG, the computer's flexibility in control options and power remains an unparalleled option. You can disparage the MMO as a "job" or a "hobby" all you want because you don't like it's play style, but 10 million people playing WoW alone (forget all the other MMOs or MUDs out there) disagree with you and enjoy playing this type of game on their computers.
Furthermore, this argument generally ignores the rapidly growing Asian gaming market, which is focused much more heavily on computer gaming like RTS and MMOs and in which consoles (especially the xbox) have little market share and have had very limited success.
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Can't say the Asian gaming market is a concern for me right now so if thats doing well thats great, but it doesn't put games on my shelf.
I have a VERY state of the art gaming machine. Its about as good as you can get without going into liquid cooling and the like. The problem is there are not very many new games coming out and many of those that are, are not very good.
Its me looking back at 25 years of gaming, seeing the evolution, expansion, followed by hitting a wall. Many of the major titles are meant for console platforms and nothing is added to take advantage of the PC and its flexibility.
Its not that the PC is a dead machine for gaming, in fact its never been better, the problem is that developers see far bigger dollars making console games and as such we don't see much new material PC side.
Heh I should complain more often...
http://pc.ign.com/articles/852/852735p1.html