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Major industry players come together in PC Gaming Alliance
Posted on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 by Speed, source: Mercury News
Intel, AMD, nVidia and Microsoft will work together to keep PC gaming alive? It certainly looks to be so!
San Jose Mercury News is reporting that at next week's Gaming Developer's Conference in San Francisco, all companies mentioned above along with a couple of other ones will be announcing their alliance that will work to keep the PC interesting as a gaming platform next to consoles
I wouldn't be surprised if the PC is a lot stronger than people imagine and it's good to see major players coming together in an alliance to show just how important our beloved gaming machine is.
San Jose Mercury News is reporting that at next week's Gaming Developer's Conference in San Francisco, all companies mentioned above along with a couple of other ones will be announcing their alliance that will work to keep the PC interesting as a gaming platform next to consoles
Companies with a vested interest in keeping the PC alive as a gaming platform will soon announce a consortium dubbed the PC Gaming Alliance. According to two people familiar with the effort, it will include top industry players such as Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices as well as a number of computer companies.
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The companies are preparing the announcement in advance of next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Part of the pitch is that the industry group will keep the PC competitive with game consoles to attract key game developers.
Although things don't look too great for the PC as a gaming platform (thanks to abysmal game sales figures that were again 6% lower than the year before) there is still hope: the "official" sales figures don't include ad revenue with gaming-related websites nor the monthly subscription fees of MMOGs or services like Steam....
The companies are preparing the announcement in advance of next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Part of the pitch is that the industry group will keep the PC competitive with game consoles to attract key game developers.
I wouldn't be surprised if the PC is a lot stronger than people imagine and it's good to see major players coming together in an alliance to show just how important our beloved gaming machine is.
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Anonymous
NINJAFISH
WoW still singely-handedly holds the PC Market up reguardless of how the rest of it is going. That being said, this does sound good for PC gamers.
I would have to agree, with the exception of a few hits like COD 4, WoW is the only constant in PC gaming. In my opinion, part of the problem is having to upgrade your PC every 12 months to play the best game out there, because I sure as hell stopped doing that.
Hopefully, starcraft 2, spore and other highly anticipated games will change that.
Anonymous
StormGuy85
As far as PC gaming goes, there is still a relatively strong audience, but it is relatively overshadowed by their console-equivalents barring WoW. Strategy games are one of those areas where the PC "should" continue to dominate, so I do agree that SC2 should breath some more life into the PC.
One big issue I see is that games are becoming noteably more "casual" due to the vast market for easy-to-play games. When you compare the difficulty of HALO to perhaps Counter-Strike, this becomes very apparent. I think the problem is that the hardcore market is still the same while the less-hardcore market has grown exponentially.
Anyways... I'm rambling now.