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Is PC Gaming Set For a Comeback?
An anonymous reader writes "A combination of factors like console penetration, piracy, and the huge inherent variability in PC hardware setups have made the PC a third-class citizen for many gaming genres, especially the kind of high-adrenaline action games that were once the PC's bread and butter. Epic is a company that has been vocal in its shift toward consoles, with many controversial statements dropped over the years in reference to piracy being the reason. So it was with some surprise that we noted Epic's VP, Mark Rein, pointing out recently that the PC is as important as ever. Why the turnaround? This article suggests that the extended length of the current console generation will drive some developers back to the PC as new games push up against hardware limits."
and fanatical users from each front fuel the fire of forum flame wars.
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sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
I'm pretty sure he was just making a dick joke. :)
It's dead! No, it's not. Really it's dead. Nah, it's just dying. Oh look it's back, oh wait, it's...
I could write my usual rebuttal to this nonsense but meh. I'll get the next one.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
that it had gone anywhere...
just about all of these homes will have at least one computer in them.
It's too bad a four-player PC game usually needs four computers and four copies of the game, not just one. Games in the multiplayer genres that do well on consoles, such as fighting games or "party" games, seldom get ported to PCs.
That's the UDK, not UE3. UE3 also works on consoles, and comes with full source.