Re: Is this the end of PC gaming?


"oceanclub" <paul_moloney@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I thought it would be amusing to Google and see when the earliest
> occurrence of the phrase was. Here it is from November 1997:
>
> "SOON A CONSOLE WILL BE DEVELOPED WITH ENOUGH POWER TO DO HI RES AT HI
> FRAME RATES. THIS DAY WILL MARK THE END OF PC GAMING ERA. NO FURTHER
> EXPLANATION NECESSARY."
>
> 9 years and counting...
>
> P.
>

Heh. Good spot. I wonder how long the PC will be around as a viable
entertainment machine, though. I just noticed that Dell are now pushing
Media Center as the default OS and penalising heavily choosing XP instead.

The drive is to separate the office based machine and the gaming machine and
you certainly have to spend a lot more on the gaming machine.

Give it a couple of years, I should think that a console with decent support
for keyboard and mouse might start to make serious in roads into PCs - after
all if you can do all of your office/internet/porn tasks with a $400 PC -
why bother spending another $1000 and all the grief just for some extra
keys?

Just rambling really, but it's like the old adage about it going out with a
whimper not a bang.


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