Pretty sure they don't mean for gaming. It says social networking and what not.

Tablets are just a fad anyways right? Eventually some else will come along and tablets will die out while desktops will still stay around.

I despise apple, I have no practical use for a tablet. I have had a desktop computer since 1995, I will die with a desktop computer... probably in front of one.

Tablets make a lot more sense than a laptop. Long battery life, more portable, and with some models, Internet access anywhere. The problem of content creation is being slowly solved to make it as capable as a low-end laptop.

Gee, I haven't seen this topic 20k times a month since the year 2000. No sir.

Wow, you heard about people saying desktops were going to die before even laptops were really a viable option for consumers?

Talk about PCs ending is only about a year or two old, that's when people started buzzing about the post-PC era. Post-PC was only talked about since Jun 2010, Post-Microsoft (as in Microsoft as a company being less relevant) really only became buzzing in some corners since 2008

Of course they are.

Of course, old people who thought it was all a fad.

I don't own a smart phone, tablet or even a laptop. I do own three PCs - all which I have assembled myself. They are much more powerful for what I need them for and anything I need to do as far as the internet goes can wait until I get home.

everything is dying.. including YOU

Hasn't this being going on for a while?
....And it's all LIES!!

I've seen this so many times about so many different subjects; usually it's just confirmation that the subject in question is alive and well, and most likely the claimant is just speculating in the hope that they'll be seen as a visionary if things do end up going that way. Or something.

Even in a world that moves back to more centralised computing, which I suspect could well be the future, as others have already pointed out, the need for high-performance applications is going to mean that PCs aren't going to suddenly become obsolete: even if only for gaming, not every PC gamer is going to want to migrate to consoles (remember that prior to the PC's ubiquity, a lot of gamers preferred to use the myriad microcomputer systems of the time rather than succumbing to the Atari collective!)

im not, my telomeres are good for another 4 years. then i will begin the process that is known as aging.

PC Gaming is dying too, obviously. Developers have to be crazy to develop for PC.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-20-alan-wake-pc-makes-money-back-in-48-hours
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/28/dear-esther-sells-50000-in-one-week/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/20/zeboyd-pc-sales-leave-xblig-in-the-dust/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/09/double-fine-kickstarter/
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/17/q-u-b-e-recoups-indie-fund-investment-in-four-days/

Until they can get some serious video processing power on Smartphones and tablets i'll stick with my PC thankyou very much. I'm not surprised by this at all since doomsayers have been around for quite some time. PC gaming is alive and well with PC's having quite a bit more longevity than some things out there.

Only thing I will say is when they solve the power problems with smartphones letting them last for longer than 24hrs with the wifi modem on then we'll talk.

Nope, my PC is doing just fine, thank you

As for PC gaming, it has been dying the last 20 years. I'd bet it last atleast another 20

Most games do not work (nearly as) well on touch devices (as they do on consoles or the PC).

I'm sticking with my PC, thanks.

Oh, now tablets are the new toy supposed to take the place of the PC in every facet of life. Excuse me while I hold in my enthusiasm.

And I love how PC shipments are growing, but the article says because they're not growing more then they're dying.

Market stagnation = death.



dunno why, and don't try explaining because I have my fingers in my ears going "LA-LA-LAA-LAA-LAA, I CAN'T HEAR, NAA NAA!!"

You can't just have sales exponentially grow forever and ever. That's why growth economics is silly, they just try to pretend that it's not impossible year after year.

I saw the same thing on my news, I said out loud: "Ha! Apple wishes!"

A console is basically an extremely limited type of PC. So no, PC's aren't dying.

I love Apple, I have no practical use for a tablet. Don't have any other portable devices, either. (Of course, plenty of other companies are pushing "handheld"/tablet, so....)


No matter how convenient tablets are for some tasks, or how nifty they are, there will always be tasks that will be more suited to work at a desktop or other work surface, with dedicated input devices (mouse, keyboard, whatever) and large monitors. Until we have thought controlled holographic interfaces like in Minority Report, of course.

This. I'm not worried. I just bought two games for my computer. The last game I bought for my 360 was the new Medal of Honor. I buy more games for my PC and I have more games for my PC than all three of my consoles.

I could possible see/agree "laptops are dying/may die" because of tablets in the rather near future, but desktop PC's? Nope, their doing just fine.