Study shows PC gaming is now more profitable than consoles

I wouldn't know to be honest.

 

The indie market is flourishing on PC right now. People are flocking to early access programs and kickstarters. Some great games are being made by small companies.

I am also a big fan of 4X strategy games. Those are Mostly exclusive to PC. I also cannot bring myself to play a FPS with a controller. I just need mouse and Kb.
I have nothing against consoles, but overall I spend a lot more time gaming on PC than on consoles.

 

I doubt the people who watch him even care about what games he plays, they just watch because his unfunny screeching is inexplicably entertaining to them.

 

I started a big speech on the history of video games, but decided you wouldn't listen to it anyways.

PC gaming has always been around, will always be around. You know what it costs to develop for the PC? Nothing. Show me that as a starting point into any consoles?

Through out video game consoles history, a new generation comes out about every 8 years. What has happened since the 3rd generation is that computers would play catch up, and even surpass the consoles at the end of their life. So basically, every 5-8 years there would be a surge of PC activity while the consoles slumped. Then a new console would get released and it would switch around for a few more years.

Since the original Xbox, MS will say that they are dedicated to PC gaming, put out a game or 2 at the end of the current consoles generation, and then forgot about PC again while the next generation gets released. Then in about 5-8 years, MS tells us again they are focused on PC gaming, put out a couple of PC games, then focuses on their next generation. They've done this twice now, and I expect to hear from them in 7-8 years about how they are focused on PC gaming.

PC gaming always picks up at the end of consoles life, always will.

And it doesn't matter if you are a PC gamer, a PS3/4 gamer, or a Xbox gamer, you are a video gamer. If you think you are better because you like one system over the other, you are a childish wannabe that doesn't deserve to be called a gamer. Grow up, embrace the difference between people and don't think there is only 1 way (your way) to do stuff. That is stupid thinking.

 

PCs will not be forever profitable. Neither will consoles. When internet connections are fast and reliable enough across the world the dominant hardware for gaming will likely be some do it all device that streams games. Don't get me wrong I love dedicated gaming hardware of all forms, but it will be unnecessary when latency isn't perceivable. The hardware that will be needing upgrades then will not be the consumers'.

The amount of people, myself included, that would continue to demand hardcore gaming platforms would be too small to be profitable. To make matters worse this might make all of gaming like it is in mobile because it will be one device and market to cater to. Sure they may release hardcore games for this thing, but they will be the minority as the casuals far outnumer us and they love the shit that plauges mobile games. Anyone who is skeptical can look at portables right now they are functionally obsolete. As much as I love my 3DS, it is the last of its kind and can only hold its own because of exclusives. This may not work forever as Wii U also has exclusives, and it is doing awful. PSV is tanking right now, on the other hand, the PSP did decently only cus mobile was not around. If you buy any mobile games you are making matters worse.

 

What on earth are you on about? You have an awesome rig, loads of games all at your fingertips... and you've given up on PCs because you don't like the way Steam looks? You do know Steam is skinnable, right? You can literally make it look any way you want.

Who sits around staring at the Steam window anyway (especially when they have 300+ games)? Seriously, I don't get what you're complaining about.

 

Couldn't of put this better myself. There's nothing really to his videos whatsoever.

 

Translation - "when internet will be 10 times faster than speed of light so global ping will be about ~5ms with bandwidths that allow to stream 90 gigabytes of video in less than a minute for each player and servers will be able to handle it"

Streaming sucks because there's not to many people willing to pay money for video quality similar to Youtube with insane input lag.

 

If streaming doesn't then a bottleneck of graphics might do it first.

 

This is great for PC gamers. I still prefer lying in bed or sitting on the couch in front of a big TV and play my games that way. I dislike Steam and never spent a cent on it because of the whole 'need to be online to play an offline game'. Not sure if things have changed since the last time I looked at it which was years ago but don't really care anymore.

 

A PC can be connected to a TV easily and Steam allows you to play games offline.

 

and games is not on a physical disc. So fuck steam and digital games.

 

This is needlessly confrontational. I am taking no sides; I am relaying facts. If reselling, gifting and trading games is your concern they can be done on Steam (but prior to adding a game to your library). Nevertheless I do understand the appeal of holding a physical game, but Steam is not as inconvenient as anti PC people believe.

 

Ah yes, the age of randumb entertainment, kinda reminds me of idiocracy where the biggest tv show was a dude getting kicked in the balls and a movie was just 2 hours of someone's ass and won an oscar.

The problem with "lets play" videos is that the most popular tend to be the ones that are less about the actual game and more about random stupid shit the "player" says/do. What used to bring a shitstorm of "you suck at X" comments has become the defacto reason to watch these videos

Its not "lets play" its "lets suck at some game while we make fun of it"

 

PC gaming is mostly doing well because of those awesome indie games that are released for free or for an affordable price on Steam and other online game stores.
I'm currently developing games for PC on my spare time, and because of great increase of documentation for programming and publishing games, creating games for this platform is much easier than consoles.

 

I don't resell games I after used. That is very rare for me to do so. What If one day that your steam account has vanish or hack or your download list has disappear and what If Steam can't trace it back?

Having physical disc really does feel that you own this property for yourself.

 

Agreed, the barrier of entry for PC games to be published is relatively low (you legitimately don't even need to use Steam, there are alternatives, or selling games on your own website can be done) compared to consoles. No fees or legalese with Microsoft or Sony, more pricing control, there's a lot of benefits for indie creators to go PC first or PC only.

 

I agree that owning a physical copy is by far the best. But it seems that consoles are doing more streaming that ever now. Example: I just bought and Xbox One Titanfall Edition. It doesn't come with a disk at all. If I sell the unit, its a Titianfall edition with no Titianfall. That just sucks. It would have cost them what, $3 to add it!!

 

Owning a physical copy is the best for collectors because of boxes, manuals etc. For people who just like to play games, DRM-free digital copy is the best because you can have multiple backups on proper devices like LTO cartridges etc. I was able to dump a lot of backups from 60s-70s mainframes without problems (well except a few cases when we had to build tape or disk reader.)