Computer runs Crysis at 60fps, costs $8,000

This is exactly why PC gaming is dying.

Pay £4000 for a PC that probably wont be able to even run most new PC games within 2 years

or

Pay less than £200 for a console where the games will probably look and play much better in 2 years than they do now.

It costs more to eat at a fine steakhouse than it does at a hamburger stand.

That said, it’s a ridiculous price.

Says that it beats Alienware, time to change ad Pat.

Fantastic, finally! Thanks for tip, gonna buy it!

Just kiddin … maybe

“This is exactly why PC gaming is dying.”

Is it? I thought it was piracy. Or was it Microsoft’s waning interest? Oh, I know, it was the bloody anti-pope.

When did “PC gaming is dying” become a buzz-phrase? It reminds me of how people used to use words they didn’t really understand to sound clever. Like proactive. “It’s a proactive approach!”. Why is it proactive? Are you sure you know what proactive means?

And the same is true here: Why is it dying? Are you sure you understand the implications of what you’re saying?

It’s true that a lot of mainstream single and even multiplayer games have moved to consoles, but to wit…

- Indie games.
- Casual games (Spore, Cake bleeding Mania, Popcap, et cetera).
- Valve.
- RPG and strategy games which are generally too complicated for a console audience (Red Alert 3, Neverwinter Nights 2, et al).
- World of Warcraft (which is a power unto itself).
- MMOs that aren’t World of Warcraft.
- Intellectual pursuits (such as LOVE).

PC gaming seems quite healthy to me, it’s just that a small portion of PC gaming isn’t as healthy as it once was.

Valve, Blizzard, and many PC-focused developers realise that not many people have high-end machines, and they’ve lowered their upper-specs to match. Valve even frequently quizzes their player-base to find what the most common mid-point is with their hardware.

So… how is PC gaming dying?

:/

“RPG and strategy games which are generally too complicated for a console audience” What? Come now, i’m sure you’ve worded that wrong, only owning a console, or atleast only playing games on one dosnt make you an incapable idiot.

Whilst i agree that PC gaming isnt REALLY ‘dying’, i’ll atleast go and say that; games that demand you shell out your hard earned cash just to play them right is one of the reasons why theres a loss in interest in PC gaming when it comes to some gendres of games.

Did anyone say PC gaming is dying has become a new buzz phrase?

OK Mr Esha, who never answers any questions that I put to him, I’ll answer your question.

How is it dying?

It’s dying, because the vast majority of the best games these days are developed for console.

It’s dying because it used to represent the pinacle of the hardcore gaming experience, but now it’s just practically the home of either ‘games that don’t work that well on console’ or ‘games that no-one would really spend money on a console in order to play them’.

Lets face it, if RTS games worked well on console, then the PC would be a second choice platform for anyone developing one.

It might not be dying in terms of sales of casual games and games that you just don’t want to play without a mouse, but in terms of its status in the gaming community and in terms of how its future looks when compared to the future of console gaming, it’s definitely dying.

And as for piracy, then it only makes its situation worse.

What a silly article that is, take the newest PC hardware with absolutely insane launch prices (including a $500 paint job) then make a claim about it being the only PC ever able to run the old, unoptimised version of Crysis (it’s not Warhead they’re using) at 60FPS.

Looking at the other benchmarks shows how daft it is, I don’t think anyone really needs to run UT3 in 1920×1200 at 349 frames per second.

Come to think of it, no-one needs to run UT3 at all as it’s a poor addition to the series.

You can play games on a PC now? it’ll never catch on…

Is it only available in Ferrari red?