On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 01:18, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 19:32, Matthew Johnson wrote:
Serious game machines equals Playstation or Xbox...PC game sales fell by 2% and quite a few computer stores that I have been to have reduced the amount of PC titles.
Ya, riiiiiiggggghhhhhhtttt !!!!
Ok, you go online in Tribes2, UT/UT2k3, counterstrike, Q3A, RTCW, or any other shooter. You pick any character, load out, tactic you like. I'll pick sniper and we'll see how close and often you can get to me before I pick you off with repeated headshots.
Oh, so it was *you* that kept snipering me on beach assault huh?
Console games definitely have there place. And yes many gaming stores have indeed cut down the list of PC games. BUT! serious gamers use PCs. It is more configurabel and controllable. I spend 75% of my time on a computer playing games of every sort. I have played consoles. Those of us in competition teams in online gaming rarely ever find a console gamer that is capable of competing on the same level. They simply get the ever loving tripe beat out of them. I do it in Linux and most people are always of the opinion that I must be an admin or some sort of guru. Fact of the matter is that Linux in networking is better and PC gaming on this level is all about connection and control - I get both to a vastly higher degree on my Penguin PC.
So do I Chris, but the sales did indeed fall 2% and Fry's has taken out two sections of PC Games and handed it over to country music...Console games give a higher return from what I have been told. I beta tested EverQuest adventures for the PS2 and it was completely different experience from the PC version. Hey, the PS3 is likely to run some form of Linux :). I agree, and use my Linux box more than my PS2, the titles just don't excite me that much, but yet stores that I went to reduced PC games available. And actually looking through the aisles and with GameSpot most games have been a disappointment.
As far as the rest of your comments I think they're spot on.
Hehe, well cannot ever agree with everything 100%, especially nowadays because markets are changing, companies are adapting, whilst others are dying because they fail to adapt.
Cheers, Curtis (aka Crusher-1) :-P
Matt