I was cruising the forums at Quartertothree.com when I came across this gem. It’s a video that ostensibly comments on what games might win Spike TV’s VGA award for best game of the year. However, I’m not going to comment on the game choices, but rather this bit of ignorant commentary that begins around 57:45 in the show.
It’s in response to a question: “What are your thoughts on how PC gaming is dying?”
My first thought: way to pick a loaded question. But then oft-quoted analyst Michael Patcher goes on to demonstrate his ignorance, by saying: “Nobody has a PC that’s faster than a PS3.”
Say what?
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Does PC gaming have a future? Or are PC gamers relegated to an ever-shrinking market of increasingly marginalized, low-quality titles and poor console ports?
There’s been a great deal of gloom and doom in various online forums and gaming web sites. Sales of boxed, retail PC games were substantially down in 2008. You no longer see many AAA PC-only titles being announced (Command and Conquer 4 being an exception.)
The problem isn’t that PC games are dying. The problem is that PC games are evolving, and the way people look at PC games hasn’t changed.
I like to think of PC gaming as a beam of light passing through a diffraction grating. Read More »
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