Was browsing through Google news and stumbled upon two articles I found interesting...and funny...

I read this and made me wonder if other companys will notice this...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/36090/Is-the-PC-now-winning-the-gaming-war

I then read this article
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/01/ex-microsoft-games-chief-apologizes-for-%E2%80%98consolization%E2%80%99-of-gaming/#

“Am I happy to have been a part of the destruction of PC gaming? No, of course not. But I am proud of the fact that I’ve helped convince a generation of gamers that it’s cool to pay $10 for a pair of virtual sunglasses and that playing online should be considered a premium feature..."

and I lol'ed

They are pretty short first one is kind of interesting the second one is funny.

Edit: Found another interesting Article from MaximumPC
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/12_ways_consoles_are_hurting_pc_gaming?page=0,1

"Besides, people want to be able to hit the A button and see something awesome happen, not fiddle around with .ini files making sure their FOV—whatever that is—looks good on their monitor"
LOL

We need to start fighting back! I suggest founding an organized movement called "Operation Destroy Console" and start brainstorming ideas on how we can hinder the rival formats financial appeal to developers. While simultaneously boosting the PC.

Had me fooled at first

then again I'm a little high so lol

This one on the 12 reasons consoles are hurting PCs seems quite appropriate for these forums.

Let us begin our tour with Unfortunate Console Consequences 101: the bad port. It can take many forms, and even in this day and age of developers working tirelessly for platform equality, it's all-too-common. From Resident Evil 4 to Grand Theft Auto IV to a large number of games without fours in their titles, fun-killing, sometimes game-halting bugs have plagued many major PC releases. Frankly, it's inexcusable.

Fantastic line this.
Current console tech is at least five years-old – except for the Wii, whose innards' shelf date came and went shortly after shelf dates were invented.
That made me laugh.

*notes post date of the article*

I've always told my console owning acquaintances their console is merely a copy- and cheat protection platform. I've pointed out they have a computer on the side, for work, internet or other stuff.

And now I'm taking this hard evidence into my repertoire:
http://tengofriki.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5aac7_fps_leveldesign_932010-550x454.jpg

Edit: Such a shame Crytek decided to sell their great name in these times...

*notes post date of the article*

Yeah, I thought the crunch gear was funny. Figured it would be entertaining for others to read it . It's somewhat satirical. Or at least it seems to be.

Pretty fun read i must say.i lol'd alot.


PC gamers have to understand one thing: they’re irrelevant jerks, and the whole world will be much better off if they would go away forever. Nobody in the gaming industry cares how much memory they have or how many slots their GPU occupies. Overclock your CPU? Why don’t you fill a cup of water and see if it gives a damn because I can guarantee nobody at Activision or EA gives a toss. Do you think we’re able to buy pet tigers making sure textures look good at your stupidly high resolutions?


I keeled over cause of so much laughter when i was reading this. xD

Humour and sarcasm aside, those articles do cover a lot of what's responsible for the consolization of PC gaming. Unfortunately, developers only listen based on their number of sells and if they're not what they wanted, they just chalk it up to piracy instead of themselves. Because if it works on consoles, it's gonna work on PC, right? Fortunately, there's still developers who listen to their fanbase like Valve and are completly PC supportive. If people bought their games and then left developers like IW and now Crytek in the dust with thousands of unsold copies, that would force them to get rid of console influences. Unfortunately, most people don't do that.

I can't wait for the next console generation (because this generation is the last of the 'hardcoe' consoles, mark those words well) because then the people who occupy the comments section of that article can only cry as they clutch the picture of the last 360 left that went on to RROD'd as they look up at the consoles they helped create, full of teaspoon shallow mini games dressed as full blown titles with lots of motion controls

Something else I found interesting is this blog.
http://dbzer0.com/blog/why-do-people-pirate-games
The article he references is interesting too (http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_10.html).

When I got to the Tweakguides article list of suggestions, I lol'ed. My favorite one is
"Don't blindly support Steam. Steam is a good digital distribution platform, but at the moment Valve has an effective monopoly on digital games distribution. In the absence of a real competitor, prices will remain high and Valve will have no incentive to pressure publishers to both lower digital prices and remove redundant DRM on Steam-protected games."

Then in the same breath says
"Support small innovative developers. To counter the constant run of gradually lower quality franchise games such as the Need for Speed and Sims series, reward small developers who innovate and take risks with their own money - buy their games. Everyone loves to be seen saying supportive things to small developers, but data and anecdotal evidence from the developers shows that in private people pirate the hell out of these games, especially those without any DRM. Put your money where your mouth is. "
Wonder if he understands how much Steam helps Indie game developers...
Anyways I leave this to your opinions and findings.

I cant resist. This is what 360 users need to get.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisix/gaming/c3da/

Lol thats funny

We need to start fighting back! I suggest founding an organized movement called "Operation Destroy Console" and start brainstorming ideas on how we can hinder the rival formats financial appeal to developers. While simultaneously boosting the PC.

hardcoe console gaming is already dying as it is with the stupid gimmicks like motion control and crap.....

FACK FOCK!

-fuzz

We need to start fighting back! I suggest founding an organized movement called "Operation Destroy Console" and start brainstorming ideas on how we can hinder the rival formats financial appeal to developers. While simultaneously boosting the PC.

hardcoe console gaming is already dying as it is with the stupid gimmicks like motion control and crap.....

It's a cool idea but poorly implemented imo.

PC gaming isn't dying, it's being murdered... systematically and on purpose.

The funny thing highlighted by your post from that quote is whether or not the journalist has any weight behind his words at all with truth, console gamers see us in that light.

The fact of the matter is, if PC gaming were to ever completely die out. People can make funny rag articles all they want but console gaming will indeed die a year after words. We pay for all the hardware that is invested into console and without us consoles wouldn't exist. If PC gaming does die eventually, so will console gaming. The console gaming elitists don't like when I say this, but they have never been able to prove my statements are inaccurate in any way because they aren't.

The funny thing highlighted by your post from that quote is whether or not the journalist has any weight behind his words at all with truth, console gamers see us in that light.

The fact of the matter is, if PC gaming were to ever completely die out. People can make funny rag articles all they want but console gaming will indeed die a year after words. We pay for all the hardware that is invested into console and without us consoles wouldn't exist. If PC gaming does die eventually, so will console gaming. The console gaming elitists don't like when I say this, but they have never been able to prove my statements are inaccurate in any way because they aren't.

Interesting point sir.

what hardcoe console gaming?

what hardcoe console gaming?

I think it's what people who play MW a lot etc are considered as doing...

The funny thing highlighted by your post from that quote is whether or not the journalist has any weight behind his words at all with truth, console gamers see us in that light.

The fact of the matter is, if PC gaming were to ever completely die out. People can make funny rag articles all they want but console gaming will indeed die a year after words. We pay for all the hardware that is invested into console and without us consoles wouldn't exist. If PC gaming does die eventually, so will console gaming. The console gaming elitists don't like when I say this, but they have never been able to prove my statements are inaccurate in any way because they aren't.


I honestly agree, I dont see PC gaming dying anywhere in the near future, however consoles have gotten much more "kid" friendly. Im not talking about dumbing things down, Im talking about games in general. Look at the WII, it has AMAZING sales, and its target audience are groups of people or people under the age of 18, just look at the WII isle next time your at Best Buy, or Wally world, 99% of the games are E for everyone.

Console games are, in my opinion, heading towards the "social" side of game, long gone are the days of playing Armored Core, or Tomb Raider in your dark bedroom for hours on end, and begining are the times where you invite 10 of your buddies over and drink beer and kill things on MW2 while mocking the terrible scores of your fellow players. Thats what I consoles going to, maybe in the future it will all circle around again, like the virtual version of bell bottum jeans. Only time will tell.

whoever dike **** is from **** if i ever see him im jus gunna run up an punch him in the mouth...talk about an unprofessional way to conducte an interview. No credibilty either dosent even know what FOV is.....hhhh....yay! lets all be as **** stupid at we can.