PC gaming is dead

Skillers · Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:56 pm

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10 ... m-accounts

Valve wrote:

During the past 12 months the platform had year-over-year new user growth of 178%, pushing the total number of active accounts to over 30 million, with over 1,200 games now offered. Peak simultaneous player numbers were also up to over three million, with over six million unique gamers accessing Steam each day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live wrote:

On November 12, 2009, Dennis Durkin, COO of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, announced that November 10, 2009, the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 marked the busiest day ever on Xbox Live, with over two million active users simultaneously.[11]
On February 5, 2010, Marc Whitten announced that Xbox Live had reached 23 million members.[12]

11 - http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/70068 ... -Ever.html
12 - http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/2010/02 ... letter.htm

So very dead...

Nannal · Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:15 pm

I threw my pc away years ago, pirates are killing the industry now I only play wii

azcn2503 · Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:16 am

Yeah man, I NEVER play on my PC these days.

McWill · Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:12 pm

the pc gets all the good games like halo reach and halo3

I don't like halo wars though

DHR-107 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:49 pm

http://kotaku.com/5687187/valve-is-killing-the-pc-market-apparently

Thought this was kinda on topic

Made me lol too.

Si · Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:13 pm

Don't mock it. Valve is killing the market by caring about us :'(

Skillers · Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:53 pm

Heh, the funny thing is that the bricks-and-mortar stores have already given up on PC gaming, and it was Amazon/Play that did that to begin with. These days you're lucky to find 10% of a gaming section for PC games, with most of that dedicated to the bargin bin 3 for a tenner section. I really don't think that publishers care if the shops stop stocking their AAA PC titles, it's not like they get a lot of shelf sales for all but the biggest titles anyway. All that refusing to stock them will do is drive even more of the PC traffic away from themselves.

azcn2503 · Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:24 am

Play have given up on PC gaming?

Skillers · Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:13 pm

Sorry, I messed up my first sentence, I meant that Amazon/Play basically took the customers of brick and mortar stores and caused the stores to give up on PC games.

Si · Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:39 pm

Well as long as Steam continues to exist and be awesome, PC gaming will never die.

And as for the brick and mortar stores, classic shooting self in foot there?

Nannal · Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:49 am

I somtimes wander into gaming stores, you know when I feel like cheering myself up

Si · Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:18 pm

Nannal wrote:

I somtimes wander into gaming stores, you know when I feel like cheering myself up

You must be looking at the PS1 section. Or maybe the PC Game section in ~~Gamestation~~ a non-disclosed video game retailer where they sell PC games at a higher price for 2nd hand copy than new

Hawke · Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:44 pm

I like how Skillers, someone who's pretty much never playing PC games, has made a topic about how PC gaming is dead.

Si · Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:55 pm

Clearly you haven't been keeping up

Its all LoL these days

Skillers · Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:07 pm

Hawke wrote:

I like how Skillers, someone who's pretty much never playing PC games because he has piles of work, has made a topic ~~about how~~ lampooning people who say PC gaming is dead.

Fix'd

Also, yeah, I still play a fair bit of LoL when I get the chance. Not so much this past week (yay, lab report!) but typically play one game a day and a few more on weekends.

Hawke · Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:07 pm

Si wrote:

Its all LoL these days

I meant games I actually play

DHR-107 · Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:57 am

Si wrote:

Nannal wrote:

I somtimes wander into gaming stores, you know when I feel like cheering myself up

You must be looking at the PS1 section. Or maybe the PC Game section in ~~Gamestation~~ a non-disclosed video game retailer where they sell PC games at a higher price for 2nd hand copy than new

Oh how fantastic that price system is

Happens in Swansea too

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