Is Microsoft killing PC gaming? (not another one of those posts!) - Page 2

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It won't. People like YOU (and I) create a demand. On the flip side, publishers need to see a profit in order invest in making games like Crysis. If pushing the limits doesn't make sense financially, then they will simply publish games that can run on most PCs their target audience owns. If their target audience are enthusiasts who spend anywhere from 2000$ to 5000$ on their PCs...which means a forecast of less units to be sold, then they would have to sell these units at a much higher price. Given the piracy issues that the PC Gaming Industry suffers from, this type of audience won't be targeted anytime soon.

So, convince your friends to buy the most up to date hardware on a regular basis and to stop pirating games (I'm not accusing them...but you get the point).

The blame goes to the publishers who don't create games that are pushing the limits. However, it's hard to ask someone to make only 10$ when they have the potential to make 100$ (Not to mention the amount of money they risk on every game they create).

Besides, check the news.

Nvidia: CUDA and similar development.

Intel: With the R&D in CPU Graphics (might end up pushing the limits if this really works out).

AMD: Currently, it's not very good...but if enough R&D is done, a shared processing unit between CPU and GPU could generate the best performance. This is the most promising option of all. Unfortunately, AMD is experiencing strong financial problems at the moment.

*** ing stupid consoles......
wake up gamers we all need a pc "thats the lord of gaming"......
xbox 360 and ps3 are pc's ***.......
plz support hardcore gaming on pc rather than all those baby games on those gate's console

WoW...talk about a pointless thread. MS is not hindering the PC Gaming market in any way. MS released DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 with the intent of improving graphics. nVidia has recently come to realize that there's only so much you can really do with PC graphics. The next step is now ray-tracing and tesselation, which requires hardware capable of doing both, as well as a graphics API that is capable. It really makes no difference to gamers how graphically advanced a game is, if they can't run it or don't enjoy playing it. For graphics to move beyond where they are, developers HAVE to start optimizing for quad and oct-core processors....which costs more money, and thus raises sale prices on games. nVidia appears to be focusing more on GPGPU this round, than they are on graphics....which is very commendable. Graphics cards, as we know them, will cease to exist in the coming years....that is where the computer industry in general is heading.