According to a San Jose Mecury News writer, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, AMD and others will be making an announcement at GDC next week that they will all be forming a "PC Gaming Alliance". The goal here is to revive the PC gaming industry and make it more competitive against the console industry, which in turn would hopefully get more developers to bring games onto the PC.
This along with the recent Ageia take over by Nvidia really shows that these companies mean serious business. Granted, Microsoft is going to win either way here. You PC gamers excited to hear that you haven't been forgotten about?
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8:29 PM on 02.13.2008
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WHY PENIS WHY???
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I can build a PC, I don't do it because nothing is released on the PC these days that isn't done better on the consoles. Seemingly as always, the killer blow is struck by a Penny Arcade comic from last week.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/06
Simply put, why would you go through all the bulls**t of installing a game and finding drivers when you have something that will do it right away?
Unless its made by Introversion of course.
While I agree with console over PC for the most part that comic isn't about PC's at all. The DMC4 for PS3 installs itself onto your hard drive. So yea....kind of a stretch to use that comic even though it does have a lot of the same sentiments.
Another thing is, its hard to really compare 'consoles' to 'pc' in terms of sales.. consoles are multiple platforms and the pc is just one platform. Sales for PC games are all put together as one, where as sales from consoles come from every single console. So you can have Game A) sold on PC - and get its numbers from there.. but then you have Game B) which was purchased on console 1, console 2, console 3, and handheld 1 and 2. And they put those together with the 'console market' group. So ofcourse its going to seem consoles are 'dominating' and pc's are dieing but that really isn't the case at all.
Gotta say though that the Voltron reference is fantastic...kudos
Poor ATI will have it's heart broken and so close to Valentine's Day too...
BLASPHEMY!
LAWL, Hot Rod Rulez!!!!1!
But even the token of it is nice. If AMD and its biggest competitors all have enough cojones to pal up and try to save... er, themselves - then, while it certainly won't save it, it should make the passing of PC gaming "as comfortable as possible".
PC gaming will always be there for CC, MMOs, Starcraft, Diablo ect... But NCsoft wants to change that trend...
I'm not exactly sure what a bunch of PC gaming hardware manufacturers can do except lower their prices and pressure OEMs to be more price competitive with consoles. I mean, if they are trying to compete with consoles, they are aiming at consumers who will buy a Dell gaming machine, not build their own.
I mean, what else can they do on their own without game publishers helping out? They should have at least added Steam and Blizzard to the alliance, basically the only two companies that are keeping PC gaming alive.
Eh.
I guess I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best.
Or maybe people just don't like PC gaming, maybe they enjoy sitting down in front of a big HD with a controller, maybe they don't care to spend a lot of money on a gaming rig when a $300 dollar console does the same thing(all PC gaming gets is better graphics, controls is subjective).
Or maybe people just want variety in their games, what's been the big releases for the PC so far, shooters and a single RPG, what's next for the PC? And RTS game and more shooters.
Let me guess, you're one of those guys that looks down on console owners because we play inferior versions of games?
PC gaming is bottom tier my friend, its never gonna die don't get me wrong but it will never reach the lofty heights it had in the 90's.
and you'll have to buy a new PC every year to be able to run the newest games since the 'new generation grafix chip' will be incompatible with 'last-gen hardware'...
I live in Belgium where there's basicly only 2 broadband-providers and they work together to keep prices jacked WAY up ( 8Mbps downstream with 10Gb limit/month costs you about 45/50 € ( 50/60$) ), if intel, nvidia and amd (ati) are going to work together there's 2 ways it can go, or it stays as it is where you have to buy a new GPU every 4 months if you want to stay 'top-of-the-line' and able to play ANYTHING that comes out, or they will slow the 'product-cycles' down ( they'll all be working together, so why would they try to hurt eachother by creating something that is WAY superior? ), and then instead of having to get a new system every 4 months like you guys do now, you can get a new one every year or so, while we just keep on buying new systems once every 5/7 years, while spending all that money that you are pouring down the drain on keeping your PC up-to-date on nice games for our consoles...
plus we'll be playing on 37" HDTV's versus you playing on 17"/19" screens, while we lay back in our comfortable seating arrangements and you bend over your desk...
damn I love gaming on consoles...
every single games that are released on consoles can be released on a PC. which can support even those pads you're so fond of, ffs it can even use the wiimote.
unless consoles showed greater compatibility to PC working hardware, I'd be reconsidering.
All in all, whatever your PStriple does, PC does better. as far as I know, current consoles don't even support directX10 there goes your eye candy.
Vista is a huge steaming pile of shit though
alright I see alot of bullshit here. Point is, The mouse & keyboard is stronger than the pad.
well I don't think so, I'll agree with you that it has a higher precision in FPS/strategy games, but I'll beat anyone in a racing/fighting/sports-game with a controller over a keyboard...
Also as mentioned in my previous reply, the keyboard+mouse just is not a comfortable way to play games compared to a gamepad...
at first I wasn't convinced about playing FPS on consoles either but eventually the feeling of comfort and a screen that's at least twice as big as my PC-screen won over the 'feeling' of precision...
gaming is my hobby, as in what I do in my spare time, I work on PC's at work the whole time and I thank god that I can just come home, throw myself in a comfortable seat and just play within the next minute ( contrary to having to boot my PC into a horribly slow OS ( compared to Linux/MacOsX ), thus also making it vulnerable to any 14-year-old script-kiddie in this world... and then having to start the game)