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Question of the Day: Which compact crossover would you choose?
PC is dominant gaming platform globally
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Fudzy
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PC is dominant gaming platform globally?!?! Seriously.
ToxicBunny
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Without a doubt yes.
Cius
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Easily. Most people need a PC, consoles are a luxury. Hence PC gaming will generally be the biggest until cell phone mobile gaming takes over.
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lol, and just the other day there was an article about how consoles are.....
Wasp_21
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Holy carp, i have 3 pc's, and one console, which obviously means i am a PC gamer.......?
killadoob
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I'm not convinced, everyone needs a pc. Fair enough. How many people can afford 2k for a console vs 6k+ for a pc? So naturally i would assume a 2k pc plus a 2k console = win for people on a budget.
Piracy must be off the chart on pc then because console sales are insane, it's got to a point where game developers work on console before pc. A gaming pc is actually a luxury in my opinion not a 3k console. Most decent graphics cards cost 3k.
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Fudzy
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**** YEAH!!!BOW DOWN TO US!
Lol, I was making a comment about the terrible grammar in the title.
And it's easy to say PC gamers are dominating when you include FB games & Solitaire
The PCGA doesn't even include Steam or nVidia.
killadoob
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Lol, I was making a comment about the terrible grammar in the title.
And it's easy to say PC gamers are dominating when you include FB games & Solitaire
The PCGA doesn't even include Steam or nVidia.
LOL yea
cerebus
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Well, I can't say that's too surprising. PC gaming offers some pretty serious advantages overall versus consoles.
Then the next question is, How many people can afford R700 games when they just come out compared to PC which is usually around the R400 mark. So fair enough you pay 8k for a pc (with brand new technology) and 4k for a console (consoles new are not 2k unless they have been out for a few years with old technology) but after buying 15/20 games on the console you are at the same price mark as a pc. And not to mention the amount of things a PC can do that a console cant.
regarding piracy, that unfortunately hits all platforms and not only PC. Go look at pirate bay or any other torrent site and Xbox and PS games are quite high up the lists.
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Fudzy
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It's a lot easier and a lot less riskier to pirate PC games. With regards to hardware, you have to factor in upgrades as well.
Yea absolutely a lot easier but it does not mean that hundreds of thousands consoles games are not being pirated. Was looking at stats from 2011 which showed gears of war torrents downloaded almost 1 million times. Where the top PC game had almost 4million. So yea sure PC does have more piracy but consoles are catching up. Would love to see stats from 2012 and 2013 with console jailbreaks becoming much easier.
with PC's, upgrades are not needed as much as they used to be. You can go out now and buy a PC for 8k and it will last for a good 5 years with just a single graphics card upgrade somewhere in between. My last PC I bought in about early 2007 and only in late 2009 did I upgrade the graphics card up until the begininning of 2012 I upgraded the whole PC because I felt the CPU was starting to cause the lag in games. That is a 5 year period and it cost me about 8k in total for that PC. My current PC will definitely last me another 4 years and Ill need another graphics card upgrade only sometime next year thanks to console technology keeping games from developing at a rate that requires upgrades every year like it was at one stage.
killadoob
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5 years? LOL
I somehow doubt it. Lucky to see 3 years. At times you need a monster pc to run the console ports.
I somehow doubt it. Lucky to see 3 years. At times you need a monster pc to run the console ports.
HavocXphere
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The previous/current gen required spells & human sacrifices to get it to work because it wasn't normal DX/OGL on top of a C flavoured lang...naturally when you try porting that to a PC its a complete disaster.
The new gen consoles *are* essentially standardized PCs with minor mods (unified cpu & gpu mainly) & will share a much broader range of tech with them. So porting will become a lot less painful.
You mention 6k vs 2k cost. But thats 10 year old tech vs 0 year old tech. The new gen will be heavily subsidized and will thus be like 3k for ~2-3 year old tech (at launch lol)...but seriously MS will recovery the cost difference.
Consoles are generally sold at a loss & then you get nailed on microsoft points and game prices...Thats not to say that its a slam dunk...if you want to play guitar hero with the gf in the living room then PC is perhaps not a winning move.
But from a purely technical point of view the pc will always win - its just the way the respective industries are set up.The reason why developers program console games first (and sometimes solely) is because it's easier to develop for a standard system that won't change (in terms of OS, hardware, etc.) than for PCs that may have XP, Vista, 7 or 8... each OS poses different problems and not to mention the different GPUs that need to be tested. PCs are way more complex when compared to consoles for developing games.
For me I game mostly on console for about 2 years after each generation refresh, between that I play on PC... if that makes sense.
So as the console starts getting long in the tooth I switch to PC and then get the next gen console when it's released, nothing beats the price to performance ratio of a newly released console.
So as the console starts getting long in the tooth I switch to PC and then get the next gen console when it's released, nothing beats the price to performance ratio of a newly released console.
