Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming?

An anonymous reader writes "CNET is predicting that next-generation consoles will drive the final nails into the already half-closed coffin of mainstream PC gaming. The root of their argument isn't one of power, but of price: 'The bottom line is that console manufacturers often heavily subsidize their new machines, swallowing huge losses up front in hopes that they'll make it all back selling games... Other things being equal, the DIY-heavy PC gaming industry can't hope to compete in that kind of market.' Which is to say that once the 18-34 demographic starts buying $400 PS3s instead of $400 video cards, developers may have no choice but to follow suit." Will there still be a market for PC games, or are the graphics of the next generation of consoles going to make PC games unnecessary?

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Please, do perform the move

[masklinn]

Yes, do eradicate all those "oooh pretty" games from the PCs, move these gameplayless brainless games to consoles altogether along with their respective gamers and bring back fucking interresting games, such as good civ sims, RTS (how can the gaming industry need OSS to create a Total Annihilation sequel?), adventure games, RPGs (real RPGs, not that dumbed down console RPG shit you find in FF lookalikes, i'm talking about RPGs with stories and where you actually have some impact on things, Fallout or Arcanum types RPGs, "if you do that it's going to bite you back later" RPGs, not "here is the whole game's script, not like you need it since you can't even fucking stray from The Plan we laid down"), Myst-type puzzle games, those games full of easter eggs and obscure references and jokes to whatever the devs liked, full of everything stupid the devs can think of (Dammit give me back Carmageddon). In a nutshell, games that are fun to play, games that i'll WANT to play

Games that can be flawlessly run on crappy machines, because they don't have all the latest shaders v4846, don't want to run in 167845*12354, don't try to load 3Gb worth of textures.