Re: There's no need for a new Xbox, says Microsoft
- From: Doug Jacobs <djacobs@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:04:45 -0600
The King of Gaming <king.of.gaming@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PC games are not only dead, they've been dead for five years. No
important games come out for PC that anyone can name off the top of
their head. If the situation is right, a high profile 360/PS3 game
will get a port with (hopefully) higher resolution textures. That's
hardly what I'd call life. Go to EBGames.com (Electronics Boutique
used to sell ONLY PC games)... do you see ANY PC games advertised on
the front page? Dead.
You're kidding, right? What about WoW? GalCiv2? Civ IV? Peggle?!?
I'll grant you that retail versions of PC games have been dying off left
and right, and have been for the past 15 years or so, but they're not
entirely extinct. At least, not yet.
I see plenty of PC games advertised on GameStop/EB's frontpage - both as
retail games, and through Gamestop's digital download store.
Digital download is the area that PC games have started to re-emerge
from. Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive, to name a few, are offering both new
and older titles at discount prices. This is also opening the market to
smaller, independent developers who would never have a chance of getting
the attention of a retail publisher, like EA.
If anything, we're seeing PC gaming return to the time of the early 90s
when shareware was all the rage until a certain shareware title called
DOOM showed up and literally reshaped the whole industry.
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It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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