Should I keep my PC?

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Vaexstro

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Hey,

I might have confused you with the title but this is the core of the question.

So, here's my dilemma, I see this chart that the personal computer will hold 6% of the market by 2017.
Also, I've seen this INTEL vid that says 10 years ago PC held 70% of the community and now it's 17%.

Now that's something I can live with as a PC enthusiast, but what does worry me is putting more money into my computer for custom cooling, if few years from now it will be kind of useless, if it will hold 6% of the market, PC hardware manufacturers will just stop innovating for a PC as it will have less support and of course less revenue.

On top of that, I can say it bothers me not to have exclusives but I can live without it as we have a bigger share from the indie market, point is, if there will be less users for PC there will be less PC gaming users, hence less revenue for the gaming industry and just might stop manufacturing for PCs.

I also read this research saying that Win7 is the last PC-optimized OS from Microsoft.

How I see it, it will be all-in-one style within the next years for graphic editing, programming and so on.
It lets the professional have a clear mind about the hardware when he can just read some review about the all-in-one he wants and maybe just maybe the providing brand will offer some kind of trade-in for a newer model with the older model being less relevant.

I am sorry for the long post, and will appreciate a good comment on this because this thing worries me a lot as I love the hardware industry and the gaming one.

My current solution is to get a next-gen console and a mobile with the new nVidia chip but it's just something I'd hate to do.

Thanks again for helping me out.

* If this post is not relevant to this section of the website, I apologize I couldn't find the appropriate sub forum.*
 
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First of all, I'm very much glad to hear that, and you have a point with market growth, and who knows, maybe these percentages are more pre-built based, kinda makes sense if the author is in the mobile business; he might just not mention the part where a large portion of the community rather buy custom built computer.

However, my other two questions were; do you think all-in-one PC will dominate the custom built one in the future ( Probably not though )?

And what about gaming? Yes, the market is rather growing then shrinking, not as far as mobiles go but do you think it will be profitable to develop games to a PC? I am not referring to the once in a while highly detailed exclusive that comes once in a while because for starters they...
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Of course you should keep your PC! Forget about market share numbers. Chances are most of us have tablets and cell phones, too. Just because the total market share is 6% doesn't mean there's only 150,000 of us left. The enthusiast community is probably bigger than 1-2.5 million people, and we're growing. Desktop numbers may be shrinking, but you have to factor in market growth and other factors such as "Are you looking at just pre-built desktops?"
I say keep your PC. We're all here to stay despite what that article has to say. Desktops won't be obsolete for a long, long time. As long as someone like freddiew edits videos, he's going to use a desktop. It's just the de facto standard for professionals. Workstations won't be defunct for a long, long time either. Content creators can't just stick a Tesla or FirePro in a laptop and expect it to work like a dedicated machine.
Until they manage to shrink a quantum computer to phone size, I'll be here.
 
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First of all, I'm very much glad to hear that, and you have a point with market growth, and who knows, maybe these percentages are more pre-built based, kinda makes sense if the author is in the mobile business; he might just not mention the part where a large portion of the community rather buy custom built computer.

However, my other two questions were; do you think all-in-one PC will dominate the custom built one in the future ( Probably not though )?

And what about gaming? Yes, the market is rather growing then shrinking, not as far as mobiles go but do you think it will be profitable to develop games to a PC? I am not referring to the once in a while highly detailed exclusive that comes once in a while because for starters they all go consoles at some point, e.g Crysis, Witcher.

I don't mind the title going to exclusive, hell, the more recognition the better, but what do you think gaming will not be as rich as it is now in a PC? I don't believe it my self as Oculus Rift developers go with PC and mobile versions as imo they believe these are the most dynamic ones.

Thank you, I probably will just stay with my PC.

 
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First of all, I'm very much glad to hear that, and you have a point with market growth, and who knows, maybe these percentages are more pre-built based, kinda makes sense if the author is in the mobile business; he might just not mention the part where a large portion of the community rather buy custom built computer.

However, my other two questions were; do you think all-in-one PC will dominate the custom built one in the future ( Probably not though )?

And what about gaming? Yes, the market is rather growing then shrinking, not as far as mobiles go but do you think it will be profitable to develop games to a PC? I am not referring to the once in a while highly detailed exclusive that comes once in a while because for starters they all go consoles at some point, e.g Crysis, Witcher.

I don't mind the title going to exclusive, hell, the more recognition the better, but what do you think gaming will not be as rich as it is now in a PC? I don't believe it my self as Oculus Rift developers go with PC and mobile versions as imo they believe these are the most dynamic ones.

Thank you, I probably will just stay with my PC.

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All-in-one PCs look like they're impossible to build in so I don't see how you can fit a rig in that kind of space xD
As for PC gaming...as more people shift to the console, we see more and more PC games becoming console ports. AAA titles are more and more becoming console ports (in fact, BF3 is just a PS3 port with better graphics) because it reduces costs to develop for console then port. PC exclusives are always nice to see, but are pretty rare nowadays. AAA titles don't matter to me that much, because as much as I like a nice-looking game, as long as it functions and doesn't feel like a console game I don't mind. BF3 is like that - the only thing that really feels console-y is the EOD bot. Anyway, India games will always be #1 on the PC market, because it's so, so easy to publish indie games on Steam and other platforms. Literally all the developer has to do is make a website with a download link. That's it. For consoles, india developers must go through hell to get their game published, and they must pay up lots of their hard-earned $$$.
tl;dr PC gaming will be profitable as long as we're here to support it. Maybe most AAA games will be console ports with edits for PC, but it won't matter that much (seriously, if you complain about a PC game being ported from console...unless the game really does feel console-y, ti's just cheap). It seems indie games are on the rise anyway. Since Minecraft launched, indie games have gotten even more attention. So, basically, indie games goodness.
 
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