Wednesday, January 6, 2010

LOL of the day. The so called game industry experts and jounalists

I usually find most so called game industry experts and journalists being morons that have no idea what they are talking about, maybe they all worked at Gamestop one time. One thing that has always puzzled me is over the last 2 or 3 years experts have been proclaiming the coming death of PC gaming and I have been trying to find evidences to this claim. Here is one example:

If you read the article it claims several reasons PC gaming is dying. All of them pointing to PC market in decline, but don't you have to have a high point in order to have decline? When has PC gaming been more popular than now? When has it been more popular than home consoles? PC gaming has always been a niche market if anything it has gained popularity steadily over the years as now more people understands the technology and what it takes to build a gaming rig. So that argument is obviously flawed when trying to compare it to home consoles. Video games has moved toward mass market as a whole so maybe PC gaming is not moving as fast compare to consoles but its definitely not dying. Other reason given in the article are also laughable, things such as hardware. Again more people understands what is needed to play games on PC then ever, no one goes best buy and buy a 300 dollar pre-build with the intention to play Crysis. And as for Pirates they have always been there, now so now but that only attribute to the rising popularity of PC gaming. If its that big of a problem then why are people still making games for PC with rate 3 times faster than consoles?

What makes me laugh is people that hold real job as analyst in Tech market, who works for a real investment company and making millions for statements like these. I want to laugh and cry at the same time, this guy makes millions!!!(no name) for saying no computer in the world is as powerful as PS3. Fuck how do these people do it? Remember kids only people that are more full of shit than politicians are probably the ones that work on Wall street.

At the end of the day the only reason I like PC gaming is because its niche. Sounds crazy but the best PC games are made by little known companies targeted at the hardcore gamers rather than this mass market bullshit consoles are trying to pull. Looking back in time Bioware made their best games when they were just a small unknown company and so did many many others like Black Isle and Blizzard.

1 comment:

  1. I agree, I hate those Wall street bastards. Hang'em high!

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