This is something that I have been thinking about for a while with people saying that PC gaming is dying off.
As it stands with consoles you just put the disc in and away it goes, PC's on the other hand is a different story. They are all different unless you get a mass produced pre built one. Now what gets me thinking is the current state of play and where will it end up?
On the 360 now you can download movies and stream from a source to the xbox and onto the TV, flip side of the coin though is that you can easily do the same thing directly with a PC. Not forgetting TV tuner cards etc also makes the PC ideal for media and being the central hub for everything. Not forgetting bigger hard discs in PC's giving more space for everything media related.
If (and that is the big word here) PC's became a little more generic so games where not so different on systems then where would that go with the consoles. A PC with a bluetooth adapter could mean keyboard and mouse just sitting on your lap, same goes for a game controller.
I have hooked my PC upto my Plasma a few times now and must admit it looks awesome on my 42" screen. Only downside is all my wired peripherals. However, if I got everything wireless for my PC I'm not sure I would have the need for a console as it would simply be just start a game up and away you go like on a console.
Something has to give, I feel we are definately moving in the right direction with home media centres but where is it all going to end. Console prices are coming down and a half decent upgrade on a PC is much more expensive than actually buying a console.
Only other thing is the way games are being developed, you take away the exclusive titles on the consoles and the PC gets them you don't really need the console once again. We are now seeing games like Devil May Cry on the PC as well as a few other console only titles crossing over now so they are multi platform franchises.
Do you think we will end up with one format for everything or do you think we will caryy on going the way we are now?


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dont want pc gaming to die

etc ). There are so many more PCs in the world than consoles, it'd be daft of the games developers to ignore such a large market.
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I've started thinking this more and more lately: in terms of value the PC is unable to compete with consoles, especially as the lifecycle of consoles seems to be increasing (purportedly the PS3's going to be around for 10 years), and through that lifecycle the console is only used more and more efficiently by developers. Meanwhile pc games are never really optimised since new hardware is only ever a year away from being released. An upgrade of £300 would be an investment of about 3 or 4 years in the pc market, while a similarly priced ps3 bundle would last a few years more.
!). While Crysis isn't coming out on any consoles anytime soon, the graphical fidelity that consoles are capable of is by no means poor: I was amazed by GRID running on a 360 in Blockbuster. In terms of graphics, they're only going to get better as the current generation of consoles get older. Surely we're approaching the point where graphics are going to become less and less significant in determining the quality of games anyway?
