Re: There's no need for a new Xbox, says Microsoft

Tom wrote:

That's one example, Bioshock on the other hand ran fine maxed out on a mid range PC of the day.


I have to mostly agree with Almighty on his comments really. I mean, I am an avid PC gamer but only for a niche set of games, and I just built a really expensive rig ($4K) and most people are not going to go that route because most (typical) gamers feel just fine with the console games, they are happy with what they offer

At the minute yes, but I'm talking about now, I'm talking hypothetically, if a new console doesn't come out for over two more years

(look at Wii sales!!).

You can't really count the Wii, it's not a gamers console.

I am, for the most part, one of them, except I am an RPG freak, they are better on PC, but I somehow think that won't last much longer going into the next gen.

The PC market is certainly not dead, but it is a nearly complete shell of its former self and game sales and especially hardware sales even reflect that.

That's my point and the point that a couple of people seem to ignore. I'm not saying that the PC will make some massive comeback I'm simply saying that it will probably have a slight but noticeable improvement if the next generation of consoles doesn't come out PDQ, and that it's not dead, as die-hard console fanatics seem to think. They seem to read this as "the PC will come to conquer us all."

Hell, even over the past year or so, the console gaming industry has suffered a bit from sales, so I don't think that PC sales for gamers are going to somehow leap consoles,

I've been very clear and said that I don't think this will happen either.
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