Jeremy Laird:
Have reports of PC gaming's demise have been greatly exaggerated?
The latest news regarding PC games sales, up over 200%, along with box-office busting success from Diablo III suggest just that.
Of course, you can certainly make a case for a PC gaming industry on the slide. For starters, much of the mainstream media interest is dominated by the big games consoles. Those consoles are a lot more cost effective than PCs, too.
The purchase price of a console is a small fraction of a good gaming PC. And the life cycle of a console – as much as seven or eight years - is aeons compared to the relentless upgrade cycle of PCs.
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It was never gone and is strong as ever!
I know public perception says PC gaming is dead but I game exclusively on PC and there are always more great games than I can play released each year.
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@AfricanWoolf - Same here anymore :D I have gone to exlusive PC gaming and have not regretted it.
"Relentless upgrade cycle of PCs"?
If you know what to buy, where to buy it and what you need (also take care of the PC) it won't need another upgrade for a quite a while.
A reason consoles don't is because the game devs are breaking games down so the hardware of consoles can play the game to appeal to the largest audience possible. When that happens and you upgrade your PC, if the game devs stand by getting the game to run on both console and PC you're in the clear for a long time.