HEIL SHITLER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtvkoqTnSs

"chill"
weirdly enough, i too think mobile gaming (tablets / smartphones) are going to be on the rise in future as well.

...and really, their business models are far worse than what consoles have ever had. Apparently quite huge part of mobile gamers are "virgins" - in the sense that mobile is their first contanct with "gaming"....so the "please pay 10€ to play 5mins" marketing tricks seem natural to them D:

interesting piece of news - thanks for sharing.

"Despite primarily being a PC publisher and developer, Stardock did look into the mobile market. It’s just not viable, said Wardell. “Our poorest-selling DLC for PC games generates more income than nearly every iOS or Android developer app we’ve gotten numbers for.”"

well, not sure if thats really fair to compare though. I mean their "weakest DLC" is probably quite good seller... Meanwhile in mobile market majority make pennies and the few that sell - sell like water in desert.

Is it? That is certainly news to me. Last I heard it was doing great. A bit of an over-saturation, maybe, but if anything else that is a sign of a booming market, not one in decline.

Here is why PC gaming is not dying...

- Prices for games and peripherals are influenced by an open market of third party services and goods. Thus games will be cheaper or at least truer to what they actually cost rather than arbitrarily decided by one company.

- Latest and greatest graphics and sound cards will hit PC's first.

- Some games need a mouse and keyboard and most console makers don't embrace that input device.

- It was revealed at a gaming conference, that the OpenGL API has significant performance gains against comparable services especially direct X. That means developers can use a none proprietary API to make a game (with the best performance possible), and with a bit of tweeking, get it to work on a myriad of platforms without having to pay a fee to do so.

- Also it seems to me each year consoles approach the price of a low cost PC. If consoles ever get to be about 200 dollars more expensive then now, you can expect people to weigh getting a new PC with just as much graphical/sound ability against a specialized machine.

- One last thing. You can upgrade PC parts. You could spend 4-5 hundred dollars on a new system, or spend half that or 2/3rds that cost for a substantial graphics boost.

List of PC models no longer being sold, not enough paper in the world.

THE CONSOLE UBER RACE CONQUERS ALL.

700 games on gog alone. How many there are on PS, xbox, nintendo?

Combined? About 12.

You're forgetting one thing: In every previous console generation, the latest-gen consoles were about a year ahead of state-of-the-art PCs at launch. In this generation they're about half a year behind (is the general impression I get). So while only the top 5% or so of current PCs can keep up with the next-gen consoles (I'm pulling numbers out of my ass here, you understand), that's still 2 years earlier than it took to reach the same scenario during the launch of the previous generation of consoles.

Basically, this generation of consoles have lost the competition with PCs before the competition even began. This means that this generation of consoles will have a much worse effect on the quality of PC games than the previous generation did, at least if it has as long a life cycle.

I agree

The NES had 800 US titles alone.

What's next console manual burning?

Did PC gaming die again? Fuck it, I'm not going to the funeral this time.