Why is PC gaming not as big as it once was?

[entropy13]

you can't play exclusives or imports.

In much the same way as there are PC "exclusives."


Can you play your PS1 games on your PS3?

 

[Mussels]

In much the same way as there are PC "exclusives."


Can you play your PS1 games on your PS3?

you can play them on PC thanks to emulators.

 

[BumbleBee]

In much the same way as there are PC "exclusives."


Can you play your PS1 games on your PS3?

there are no PC exclusives anymore.

yes.

you can play them on PC thanks to emulators.

PS3 and XBOX 360 emulation is impossible.

 

[JrRacinFan]

you can't play exclusives or imports.

Remember how I mentioned Hard Reset previously? That is to be an exclusive, PC only. I can understand your logic, but yet again PC games should be ported to consoles not the other way around. Poor poor coding and lazy devs.

PS3 and XBOX 360 emulator is impossible.

Not impossible, they would have to be written/launched in a virtualized environment, "VMWare"-esque.

 

[entropy13]

there are no PC exclusives anymore.

Agreed. Starcraft II, Shogun 2: Total War, etc. are figments of our imagination.

 

[BumbleBee]

Agreed. Starcraft II, Shogun 2: Total War, etc. are figments of our imagination.

2 games! both which are a niche genre. the PC used to have a lot more exclusives.

 

[Mussels]

Agreed. Starcraft II, Shogun 2: Total War, etc. are figments of our imagination.

i hallucinate starcraft II ever day.

 

[SkullFox]

the thing that always baffles me about console gamers, is that you can quite easily hook up a controller to a PC, the PC to your HDTV and do all the lazy gaming you want. i play plenty of console games from my bed with a cordless 360 controller.

yeah... but with the console you don't need to upgrade parts... it will last for more than 5years.

 

[SkullFox]

2 games! both which are a niche genre. the PC used to have a lot more exclusives.

you can't say its a niche when you have millions playing them... its the same as saying WoW is a niche...

 

[BumbleBee]

you can't say its a niche when you have millions playing them... its the same as saying WoW is a niche...

by millions you mean Korea no it's not.

 

[Mussels]

yeah... but with the console you don't need to upgrade parts... it will last for more than 5years.

you certainly do need to upgrade. you need to replace the whole damn thing.


lets say you're a console gamer, and lets assume they do last 5 years - which isnt the case.

even if we stick with current gen, if you wanted accesss to all the current console games you'd need:

360 (with hard drive, not the 4GB model)
PS3
Wii

(and if we count portable:
PSP
nintendo 3DS)


each of them requiring their own unique hardware accesories - controllers, cables and so on, often costing more than the console itself.

then when the replacement comes out? throw it all away or put it in storage, because apart from the HDMI cables, you wont be able to reuse a single piece of it.



you may not need to upgrade the parts inside the console, but theres dozens of external accesories you need (Xbox 360 w/ hard drive, 4 controllers, kinect, headset, etc) that you're sure as hell upgrading along the way.

 

[BumbleBee]

if you don't have to spend a lot of money building a PC then why not spend $1200 on a PC and $300 on a console of your choosing.

 

[JrRacinFan]

yeah... but with the console you don't need to upgrade parts... it will last for more than 5years.

Ok let's say you purchase a computer. Didn't go all out for this pc ($500), dual x16 slots 8GB ram quad core and everything. 5 years comes, cpu is still going strong but you want to play the latest titles, $200 gets spent for a video card.

@Mussels

There is ONE, just ONE, console that comes to mind with your post. Wii U, the next nintendo console on it's presumed specs as far as we know to this day.

 

[entropy13]

2 games! both which are a niche genre. the PC used to have a lot more exclusives.

Since when did "etc." become an insignificant word and does not count for anything?

 

[entropy13]

Spoiler

 

[BumbleBee]

Since when did "etc." become an insignificant word and does not count for anything?

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I hope your enjoying Railroad Simulator and Farmville

 

[TheMailMan78]

2 games! both which are a niche genre. the PC used to have a lot more exclusives.

Your console has exclusive games? That's nice.

My PC has exclusive GENRES

 

[BumbleBee]

Your console has exclusive games? That's nice.

My PC has exclusive GENRES

that should be a commercial.

 

[entropy13]

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I hope your enjoying Railroad Simulator and Farmville

I haven't played Railroad Simulator, although I have tried it before. I am playing Football Manager 2011 right now though. I stopped playing Farmville after it only took me less than a month to reach some level that took my father almost two months (with the help of his credit card) to reach. And it's "you're" and not "your."

I'm still wondering why you took the effort to type (or copy-paste?) a facepalm, when my question was perfectly legitimate, unless of course you have your own definition of "legitimate", or that for you, "etc." means something else?

 

[BumbleBee]

I haven't played Railroad Simulator, although I have tried it before. I am playing Football Manager 2011 right now though. I stopped playing Farmville after it only took me less than a month to reach some level that took my father almost two months (with the help of his credit card) to reach. And it's "you're" and not "your."

I'm still wondering why you took the effort to type (or copy-paste?) a facepalm, when my question was perfectly legitimate, unless of course you have your own definition of "legitimate", or that for you, "etc." means something else?

if there was an alien invasion. I would be the woman in the resistance with a sense of humor that dies first

whatever makes you happy.

 

[entropy13]

Just realized something.

2 games! both which are a niche genre. the PC used to have a lot more exclusives.

"Used to have a lot more exclusives"? Many of them are STILL exclusives! So long as your operating system can play them, or you can install them, they're still "current" PC exclusives in a sense.

I can still play Fallout 1 & 2, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Neverwinter Nights (and expansions), Red Alert, Age of Empires, Battle Realms, MechWarrior games, etc.

So the use of "used to have" is actually incorrect. They're still PC exclusives, as PC to consoles porting is rare then, and still rare now. Thus there are still a lot of PC exclusives since it at least spans a period coinciding with the years of the Windows operating systems.

 

[Mussels]

if there was an alien invasion. I would be the woman in the resistance with a sense of humor that dies first

whatever makes you happy.

just hit them with your mechanical keyboard until they give up and leave.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

just hit them with your mechanical keyboard until they give up and leave.

Or put her behind the wheel of a hummer, and she can plow right into then one at a time. we all know women cant drive!

 

[BumbleBee]

just hit them with your mechanical keyboard until they give up and leave.

"Cherry Corporation from Germany welcomes you to Earth" <clunk>

 

[TheMailMan78]

that should be a commercial.

I liked it. Honestly I cant take credit for that one. It was a youtube comment of a PC guy trashing a Gears or War fanboy in a BF3 video thread. I found it pretty much perfect in every way.