PC Gaming's Future Evolution

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:58AM from the do-the-evolution-baby dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel from last week entitled PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the 'death' of PC games, this panel suggested that the death is of PC games as we know them - PC gaming will evolve. They believe the future of gaming on the PC lies in strengths like persistent-world environments; not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control."

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PC gamings greatest strength is not mods. by Jartan · 2007-03-12 05:48 · Score: 0, Troll

The PC's greatest strength for gaming is that PC gamers like better games. Even the best console games usually seem mediocre at best compared to a good PC rpg or rts. Consoles can't handle good RTS gameplay but nothing restricts them from making some really good turn based RPG's. Yet never has a console turn based rpg ever come close to some of the PC greats like fallout. It's not like turn based RPG's aren't popular on consoles so what's the problem?

The only conclusion I can come up with is that the audience just has tastes similar to mine.

PC gaming will only die when they start making great games for consoles. When they do that though I'll probably plug the console into my monitor and call it a computer.