Microsoft Says PC Games Are Doomed!

[Kamog]

Well, I prefer PC games to console games because I will always have a PC because of the need to do other things on it like work. So it's nice to be able to play games on it as well. Then I won't have to have other hardware like an X-Box or a Playstation II.

[Phoenix-D]

I'll go along with the: "so what?" chorus.

Most of the mass-market games I'm simply not interested in. Therefore, if that segment of the market dies..I don't care. I won't be buying Deer Hunter XXIV, so why do I care if that company goes away?

PC gaming isn't going away. PC gaming as a major retail force might.

EDIT: Also, an important detail: you won't see publishers like Shrapnel on consoles. Because console makers control what can be published on their consoles, and therefore can veto any game..

[Captain Kwok]

I also think console games miss the biggest aspect of computer games - which is their "modability".

[boran_blok]

Console games are just different from PC games, the difference is too big for me to bridge, so I wont be playing console games anytime soon.

[Atrocities]

I really do not see the appeal of consule games other than they are great at parties and if you have kids. PC games are a lot more in depth and IMHO provide for better game play all the way around.

Try playing AOE, Civ IV, or SEV on a consule and see how far it gets you.

[NullAshton]

'Please insert an XBox game, audio CD, or DVD.'

[dogscoff]

PC games won't ever go away. How do you think the ppl that code for the consoles learn their craft? By coding games on non-console platforms, notably the PC. You can't learn the art of game design/ coding without practise, and you can't practise coding on a phongin' playstation because you can't *code* for the playstation unless you happen to work for a games company with all the tools to port the code over, but you can't work for a games company until you've learned the art of game design/ coding...

So they start by coding simple little games (pacman, tetris) as excercises on their PCs when they're spotty teenagers, and then gradually work their way up and up through various freeware and shareware projects until they have all the complex knowledge needed to get a job coding a hit 3D FPS for the Xbox. For example, take a look at the evolution of Malfador.

This assures that the home computer market will always have a mid-level game scene, at the very least.

And nethack ain't going nowhere, neither. It's been around for twenty years, it will still be there when the gamecube is just another dusty exhibit in some museum.

The divot at M$ who made that stupid statement knows this too, they are just trying to scare up some sales for the Xbox.

[Renegade 13]

These things run in cycles. Popularity will rise, then fall, then rise again. As the cycle sits now, console games are popular, computer games less popular. Things will reach a low for PC games, companies will go backrupt, less crap will be made. Some innovative developers will survive, and continue to make games, and rake in the profits from making good games that will be bought by the hardcore PC gamers who will never go to the console (myself included). Then, seeing the success of the developers that survived, more companies will be created, and create more and more PC games. A lot will be crap, but lots will be made, and people will say PC gaming has risen from the ashes. But really, it'll just be a natural cycle. Console games will have their day, then inevitably fall in popularity for a while. It's the way an industry such as gaming functions.