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The unknown future of PC gaming....

ShiBDiB said:
FPS on pc is dying..

Strategy, Sims, Sports management ETC.. just dont work as well on a console platform

Which is fine with me
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I don't really care for Railworks or Farming Simulator 2011 either way lol

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which end do the flamethrowers come out?
 
pc gaming has trends

When a new console comes out PC gaming does good because the PC sets the benchmark for the console but once consoles gets going and gets a fanbase PC gaming goes into decline(thats where the money goes to) but once the console starts getting old a new console comes out and it happens all over again.

right now if PC gaming did die, consoles would probably suffer massively too

so ima keep playin my mmo's and buyin video cards, pc gaming isn't going anywhere as long as there are consoles.

now if this cloud crap takes over though, then that I don't know.


Is that a john deere game?
 
KainXS said:
pc gaming has trends

When a new console comes out PC gaming does good because the PC sets the benchmark for the console but once consoles gets going and gets a fanbase PC gaming goes into decline(thats where the money goes to) but once the console starts getting old a new console comes out and it happens all over again.

right now if PC gaming did die, consoles would probably suffer massively too

so ima keep playin my mmo's and buyin video cards, pc gaming isn't going anywhere as long as there are consoles.

now if this cloud crap takes over though, then that I don't know.


Is that a john deere game?
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Farm Simulator 2011.
 
So, I 've been thinking... Which PC game do you think will be the next big one...? the one that sets a new, never-seen-before standard for a particular genre? Or even the industry as a whole? That defines a new era of gaming on the PC?
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No one knows what the next trend setting game will be until it's written and released.

In my humble opinion, PC (and console) gaming will not advance to the "next level" until two things occur.
1) Developers stop using physics for simple eye candy and make it change the gaming experience.
2) CPUs get powerful enough to handle the massive amounts of parallel data being generated from #1.

Then we will get back the "Holy Crap" feeling we had in the early years of PC gaming.
 
HookeyStreet said:
Ermmmmm, aren't you a massive console gamer also?
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I would'nt call me massive console gamer I bought my first console in january 2010,So 1 year is nothing compared to thouse who play console for enternity.I prefer PC. console is most part for fun with friends to do some motion action or some bomberman destruction.And of course for some games what never be on PC.
But to say my point of view about future of gaming, I just say Will See About That
no comments, because i not the person who predicts anything i just live this day and nothing more.
 
Is the rampant consolization and push towards subscription models and as much DLC as they can jam in due to greed or necessity? Activision Blizzard and EA would have us believe that the development cost for the "old" PC model (buy a game, get free updates, mod tools where applicable to make it fun for years) isn't possible anymore because the development cost are too high.

I primarily play FPS games and there's no getting around that the genre has been very bad off since CoD4 hit the scene. The old guard, Valve, Epic and id are all working on other things (well Epic sold their soul to console) and there's been a period of over 3 years since a decent multiplayer game came out (TF2). I hope BF3 reverses that trend but it's hard to believe Dice when they say "we love PC!" and have the other eye focused on grabbing part of the CoD pie, which is what EA covets most.
 
I think this article sums up the future of PC gaming. It's both good news and bad news at the same time.
 
hellrazor said:
I think this article sums up the future of PC gaming. It's both good news and bad news at the same time.
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I don't know.. I have a hard time believing much of anything that mr Romero states..
 
If the AAA studios and publishers abandon PC gaming for the more lucrative casual and console gamers we will be left with only the indie developers who love the PC platform and have a passion for writing a PC game, not just making shareholders happy.

That would be fantastic, as it would renew the entire PC gaming experience similar to when it first broke out.
 
Kreij said:
If the AAA studios and publishers abandon PC gaming for the more lucrative casual and console gamers we will be left with only the indie developers who love the PC platform and have a passion for writing a PC game, not just making shareholders happy.

That would be fantastic, as it would renew the entire PC gaming experience similar to when it first broke out.
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+1 to that.
I can understand how those closest to the industry for any real length of time, start to become blinded to themselves & are really stretching themselves in order to continually re-invent themselves - which, naturally, causes originality to go out the window.
Fresh faces - fresh talent - new ideas (hopefully innovative and original enough to surprise us with something actually worthwhile).
 
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said this at his GDC keynote presentation [quoted from article] ...
"Innovation," which he went on to define as the notion that if there is something considered impossible, then it should be made possible - an idea which he ended his keynote on, imploring the developers gathered in the audience to go and do.
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IMO, again, the major publishers think that throwing money at a new idea or concept is the way to go. That is simply not true, and very risky.
If a new IP costs tens of millions and it fails, they stop investing in new IP.
This is a bad business strategy
Invest moderately in new IP and throw it out there as proof of concept (ala Portal) and if it catches on, build on its success.
 
Innovation was and always will be the key to success. Only if you bring something different to the market you will have success. And is for both hardware of software. And I can give you only a few examples: 3DFx, Nintendo DS (was the first device mass produced to ever have a touchscreen), Nintendo 3DS (first to ever have a native 3D display without glasses), Nintendo Wii (first to use motion controler), etc,
So yeah, I take serious the advices and interviews of the ones from Nintendo. They know better than us how stuff need to work in order to have a successful product.
 
TAViX said:
Innovation was and always will be the key to success. Only if you bring something different to the market you will have success. And is for both hardware of software. And I can give you only a few examples: 3DFx, Nintendo DS (was the first device mass produced to ever have a touchscreen), Nintendo 3DS (first to ever have a native 3D display without glasses), Nintendo Wii (first to use motion controler), etc,
So yeah, I take serious the advices and interviews of the ones from Nintendo. They know better than us how stuff need to work in order to have a successful product.
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Nintendo have always been like this. I remember when everyone had a SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis to you guys in the US :) ) so Nintendo countered it with the SNES (Super Nintendo/Super Famicom) that featured 'Mode 7' scaling and rotating :rockout:
 
Every generation has it's uncertainities and unknowingities....

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BTW: brilliant must see movie picture.
 
I disagree... Pc gaming can die. If some say that all is about money do you think AMD or Nvidia are gonna let that happen? No way those two gather lots of bucks from Gpu and the PC enthusiastics will be over.There will be no more need for great rigs and pc parts will be considered useless,unless for work. Pc gaming is what keeps alive the new tech. Games are produced in PC, so WTF are you going to replace PC games for a console in personal terms. Even if Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo bring new consoles PC hardware will jump again over them.

Is true that Consoles Companies have some "flag games" that didnt release for PC.
Microsoft is one of them and the main responsible for this... why could happen if Intel,Asus,AMD,Nvidia,Gigabyte amd some other companies start losing money cuz we are no longer playing on PC cuz Microsoft push us to buy consoles.
-Will be the 1st WW of the Companies.
I think that WE KEEP ALIVE THE PC ENTHUSIASTIC TECH ALIVE AND THAT GUYS KEEPS GIVING LOT OF MONEY.
BTW I hate playing 1PS with a console controller, nothing aim with more efficiency ant fast that a mouse!!!

oh I forgot about this. What for, is the ROG log on some MOBOS?????????????????????????????????
 
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Your Anime signature pics for sure keep me alive.... bravo!

Regarding the subject, if it has to die, let it die and move on... Your girlfriend, family, for sure will appreciate it... There is life outside the basement ;)
 
I'm sure most of us were like

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But PC Gaming Dying is really

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Dont worrys, at least BF3 will be DX11. Pitty about Crysis 2. after setting such a high benchmark with Cysis 1 its absaloutely pathetic that #2 will be DX9 only to start off with
 
erixx said:
Your Anime signature pics for sure keep me alive.... bravo!

Regarding the subject, if it has to die, let it die and move on... Your girlfriend, family, for sure will appreciate it... There is life outside the basement ;)
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I really enjoy ikkitousen draw.thanx!
In my case - my wife and my future son/daughter:p
but no thanx, I LOVE PC:nutkick:
 
Kreij said:
No one knows what the next trend setting game will be until it's written and released.

In my humble opinion, PC (and console) gaming will not advance to the "next level" until two things occur.
1) Developers stop using physics for simple eye candy and make it change the gaming experience.
2) CPUs get powerful enough to handle the massive amounts of parallel data being generated from #1.

Then we will get back the "Holy Crap" feeling we had in the early years of PC gaming.
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yeah, developer need to explore the APU power and since all CPU will be APU, i bet 3 years from now we will all have APU. and it will be stupid decision if developer not using it, especially us a gamer. because we will use discrete GPU anyway
 
wahdangun said:
yeah, developer need to explore the APU power and since all CPU will be APU, i bet 3 years from now we will all have APU. and it will be stupid decision if developer not using it, especially us a gamer. because we will use discrete GPU anyway
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You mean just like in the PS3? :laugh: Joking aside the Cell CPU does act as the ancestor of the FPU because even if its SPEs lack 2/3-rds of the functionality of a modern GPU, it's essence is exactly what makes GPUs so awesome - programmable parallel processing units - the equivalents of a CUDA core or an ATi SP cluster. So looking at things from a different perspective, Sony was already ahead of the curve back in 2006 and we on the desktop side needed to do some catching up - if not in the performance department, then in the way we manage our resources. The xbox360 on the other side of course lacked any of these cool revolutionary features because any form of imagination Microsoft ever had, left with Bill Gates and all the other cool people who departed MS with him. So MS decided to go with brute force instead and added a triple core CPU instead.

EDIT: Not trying to start a flame here. I am in no way saying that the Xbox is a worst console. Both consoles are equally cool in their own way and are great at doing what they're supposed to be doing.
 
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This is quite an intresting thread to be honest.

But have to agree mostly it's FPS's that are dieing down & becoming more simple, Yet Simulations, RTS's, Puzzel games etc are all doing great.

But One thing i have to say glad to see that people arn't continously moaning about Railworks addons on here :) that appear on steam a lot of the time. Hence why i post screens from it on here, as made to feel more welcome for my choice of game :)

Chris
 
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