Wed, Feb 13, 2008 | 06:35 GMT
PC giants plan gaming alliance announcement for GDC
According to the San Jose Mercury News, a group of major PC gaming firms – namely Intel, Microsoft, nVidia and AMD, as well as “a number of computer companies – is going to announce “a consortium dubbed the PC Gaming Alliance” at GDC.
The group is being set up, apparently, in the face of the fact that console gaming has “stolen the excitement”, the point of the venture being to keep “PC gaming alive”.
There’s no detail on how they’re actually going to do it, but this is heartening nonetheless. Go PC gaming.
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Posted in: AMD, GDC 2008, Games for Windows, Intel, Microsoft, PC, nVidia
Tags: pc gaming alliance
5 comments
#1
DSB
16/01/12, 1:29 am
This is less a case of console gaming stealing the excitement, and more a case of everybody suddenly rediscovering that there’s a lot of money to be made on the PC.
Suddenly everybody wants a piece of the pie. Just goes to show that we’re at the mercy of the average executives attention span I reckon.
#2
Phoenixblight
16/01/12, 1:37 am
@1
You do realize that this is 3 years old and that all of the people on this alliance have bounced, right, namely Microsoft and Nvidia.
http://www.techspot.com/news/42501-nvidia-microsoft-leave-the-pc-gaming-alliance.html
#3
DSB
16/01/12, 1:42 am
@2 Thanks for telling me. I remember that now
Microsoft were serious about it for juuust about 5 seconds.
#4
Phoenixblight
16/01/12, 1:46 am
Your comment still works especially “Just goes to show that we’re at the mercy of the average executives attention span I reckon.”
Though even with the “alliance” they did little to no innovation all those years. I remember doing a 10 page report on the PC market 2 years ago.