Re: PC is shrinking


"John Lewis" <john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Nope, PC -- not a launch title for PS3. Not even a potential date
> for a PS3 or Xbox360 port.

> http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-3/unreal-tournament-2007/

> Hi, Chicken Little....
>
> Every wave of new consoles brings out the "PC is dying" crowd.

But this time it's a real threat. And retail sales on the PC have been
declining for years ever since the release of the PS2.

> The Xbox360 is sure going to look very dated in a year's time.
> No doubt replaced by the Xbox720 with HD-DVD or Blu-ray.

I doubt it.

Besides, Derek Smart (the developer) said it best on another forum . It's
not about tech specs, it's about economics. The economics for consoles are
much better than the PC.

FWIW, I have a PS2 and XBox that I bought a while back. The PS2 is my
favorite console, and has some very unique games (Katamari Damacy, for
instance). The Xbox, well, let's just say I'm ambivalent about it. Half
the library are first person shooter PC ports, and most of the rest of the
library is made of mostly has-been Dreamcast games. It has few good
fighting games, no good exclusive fighting games, and the RPG's are mostly
all PC ports that I'm not interested in playing on a console-. It does have
a nice controller, though, far better than the miserable piece of junk
obviously built for Asian hands that the PS2 uses. And the XBox does have
two really good driving games= Forza Motorsports and Project Gotham Racing,
whereas the PS2's much lauded racer, Gran Turismo 4, is quite simply junk.
Rallisport 2 is also pretty good. But overall, that sort of library hardly
sounds like a success, and MS has barely turned a profit on their XBox
venture... yet somehow the XBox has a huge amount of hype around it, even
though so far it's only sold less than a 1/4 of what the PS2 has. On the
one hand, I can respect their efforts, no matter how clumsy, on the other
hand, it seems like they have no problems breaking some Faberge eggs in the
gaming industry in the name of making an omlet or two.


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