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."

Comments

Re:Understood.

[siphonophore]

we can be grouped together because we constitute a market. i know console users pirate a lot of games, and i know that PC piraters most often wouldn't have bought the game even if piracy weren't an option, but the statement "PC users pirate too many games and developing for them doesn't generate enough sales" still stands.

Re:Video card manufacturers mislead consumers

[theArtificial]

I love driving cars, but I think the biggest weakness right now is the confusion created by car manufacturers that makes it a major research project to decipher what codename/model number is actually good. If they would adopt a simple system of making their cars according to their actual capabilities, like CPUs do for the most part, they could eliminate the confusion. But I think they actually like the confusion they create. The latest Cadillac cars have a wide range, with numbers and names ending in CTS, STS, DTS...the biggest sellers now are the Escalade series, but there are also DeVille, and Sixty Sepcial series cars out with CTS and STS versions, and some other random letter codes. They've been doing this a long long time. They should get their act together and stop trying to mislead consumers with confusing model names before some regulatory agency forces them to do it.