Does PC Gaming Have a Future?

Most of the attention in the gaming world this year is being focused on next generation consoles from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. But what about PC gaming? TwitchGuru turns to former professional gaming champion Dennis "Thresh" Fong, and Adam Boyden, Vice-president at Xfire, to find out why PC gaming still has a leg up on the new consoles, and why the future of PC gaming is bright.

Like Stranger said, a tired subject. However, not a bad subject. Re-name it and be more en-lighted about future projects, past problems and general wants and needs of the typical PC (and console) gamer and you'll get more traction and readership on this.

I've heard this same question in the 80's, 90's and now today. PC games will always survive and flourish. One of the first programs written for computers (in general) that had a following was a game, or at least entertainment, called "Life." We have always had an interest in entertainment on our PCs. Why? PCs are part of our lives. And, in many cases a semi-required part. Consoles are not required. Simple enough, right? So, as long as this piece of equipment is required, let's have fun with it. That's why PC gaming will live forever.

Sure, it has a LOT of ups and downs. Not all games can have the same impact as the Quake series, EQ or WoW. And, sure we'll have monumentous flops like Kiatana (sp?) and the recent GRAW is looking like a possible looser (hopefully not, but it's looking grim.) But as time and new technology progresses, both in hardware and software, new games will emerge that grab us by the shackles and shake us to the (dual) core.

Personally I can't wait. But as I do I'll remain advid both in PC and Console games.

Narg

nice article. Some like consoles some like PC's. Lets just leave it at that

Like Hula Hoops pc gaming will be 'round forever.

Or something like that.

i am work in a game company,everybody who Interest in game can add my MSN marketA001@hotmail.com ,we can discuss anything about games.

now I would like to know where you get the idea that the Cell chip is single core... all the review about the cell chip talk about 8 core...

Example

for now the PS3 is faster than what we have in PC but the PC will catch up pretty fast and get a big lead in the near future. Until the next generation of Console.. and then we start again

PC gaming will always be there .

Just like cockroaches .

I'm kind of interested in computers taking a different track. There's some interesting research in making multi-core processors look like a single core to the OS, and having the OS do all the thread scheduling instead of the CPU/chipset.

How much will the PC cost that can run Crysis to its full potential?

I enjoy PC gaming (you can't console an RTS), but it just costs so much (hence why I wait to play all then new games after they come out. $4,000 PC today, $1,500 PC tomorrow).