Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming?

MattW writes "The gist of this AP/Miami Herald article seems to be that consoles going online will mutate the MMORPG space. Already, there is word that PC game development is withering, even though as a preferential PC gamer I see the best games ever. Is the console destined for superiority, or will the ubiquitous need and superior user input of the PC keep it as a viable game platform?"

Comments

Why not buy Macs then?

[Krioni]

I don't think consoles will ever truly beat out PCs for gaming. Die-hard anti-Mac zealots will see to that. Rob Enderle and Paul Thurrott will explain how conoles are "not expandable enough" and they don't come in "Ferrari red" and you can't have an 3l33t b0cks that is better than everyone else. Everyone has the same hardware, so there is no geek-power posturing.

If PCs were no longer needed for gaming, these guys would lose their best _real_ argument against Macs. So, just wait for a slew or articles explaining why you should not buy consoles.
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Been there, done that.

[RatBastard]

In the 16 years I've spent playing games on the PC environment (that is, IBM PCs and their decendants, older non-upgradable systems didn't have these issues) I've had to deal with the following issues:

• New games requiring RAM upgrades.
• Existing games crapping out because of said RAM upgrade (I kid you not).
• New games not compatible with the mix of Extended/Expanded RAM that everything else plays nice with.
• Games crapping out due to a hardware upgrade, like a video card or sound card.
• New games needing the newest video card drivers and those new drivers killing off older games.
• Games malfunctioning due to an OS upgrade.
• Games failing because of DLLs brought in from non-gaming applications.
• Games becoming unplayable when the system is upgraded because said games lack internal speed controls (anyone ever try to play "Wing Cpmmander" on a Pentium 133?).

Every game I have for my three consoles (PSOne, DreamCast, XBox) still works (save for the disc I rolled my chair over and snapped, but that's not Sony's fault). Most of my PC games from the PSOne era no longer work on the beast of a computer I have.

I've given up on PC games (with the minor exception of some FPS games and those cute little Flash/Java games you play in a web browser) because I'm sick of the BS keeping my game system able to play the greatest number of games possible.