[PC] Decline of PC Gaming?

Hmm I feel the consoles are going to be the ones on the decline with the high price of the "next gen" consoles that will without a doubt have issues reading games later on in their life span makes buying a PS3/Xbox 360 or WII not worth it... I think the PC should be the prefered platform for developers since it's price does not suck and it costs them nothing to drop games on it.... and oh yeah... the PS3 costs as much as one of those high end PCs now... so yeah...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

WTF?
A low end PC costs 700€.
A moderate PC costs 1500€.
A good PC costs 3500€.
A high end PC costs 8000€.

A excelent PC costs over 15000€.

You doubt? Just go to Alienware choose workstations and start pumping it up, before you kow it the bill will be in $14000
Of course this is not a gaming PC but a work PC (as in Pixar like work PCs).

And I take console over PC any day because PC games are mostly stratagy and FPS.

Your forgetting the games for PS3 will probably cost $70 per title and about buying extra controllers for the PS3 and any other gimmick they might have for you to get to play it properly.

Also what I meant is to say you can buy a PC capable of playing every game on the market right now for about less than $500 + $150 (someone forgot how many stores offer rebates on machines!) for video card with a god-damned monitor, DVD-Burner, and printer. That is much more valuable functions than a Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii can offer... Console gaming has been recently suffering too many me too titles syndrome... caused by companies like Rockstar, Square-Enix, and Konami!!! No one wants to play anything original anymore... and it was just dumb luck that Katamari caught on.. oh wait that was because it released dirt cheap...

This is coming from a console gamer though : Console games, like PC games haven't progressed much of anywhere since about 2003 so it's been the same bullshit over and over... how many times can companies recycle the same story for their RPG with different characters and settings? How many Tekken/Virtua Fighter games must we play before they resemble real fighting and no air-floater techniques?, How many sports titles must one play to realize it is the same game as last years release with updated rosters?

This is why console gaming has come to almost a hault... even those music games that breathed a fresh breath of air in are getting old (DDR anyone?)

Well if anything the Wii looks close to something new but it's basically just bringing what's been available in Asian arcades for years home...

I'm just saying $600 for a PS3 isn't worth playing games that could've easily been done on an older console with less impressive graphics but the same gameplay.

The jump from 8, 16, 32, and 128 bit all were a leap forward... with each one we experienced games not possible on a console before... now it's just a dead end because everything has been done... so we get sequels... and sequels of sequels... and failed shitty games and maybe 2 games a year worth playing... that is not worth the price of these new consoles... because I can say the same about the current PC... and updates to a PC don't cost as much as a new console... especially since the games for PC don't really take advantage of those video cards that I consider overkill...

How ya doing, buddy?