A Michael Pachter, the champion of idiocy. You know, when you only track 20% of PC sales (NPD retail figures), one would certainly get a very skewed opinion of the current market. However, when you take into account the comprehensive Horizons Report, from the PCGA (PC Gaming Alliance), and realize the PC Gaming Industry _MADE_ 12.1 Billion, last year (a 3% increase from 2008), and sold more hardware (Desktops and Laptops) than all the consoles combined...well, it makes one pause and wonder...what exactly he's analyzing. Cause...it sure isn't reality.

Facts are, any PC bought within the past 3 years, would outperform the 360/PS3. Fact is, of the 5+ people, I know to have both consoles, and gaming rigs. The Gaming rig, stomps the consoles hands down in performance.

Oh to live in the fantasy world Mr Pachter exists in. Actually no, that'd suck. PC gaming is great, so is console gaming. They both have their place, and to be honest, both markets should be analyzed fairly. This just seems to be a half-arsed approach to misinforming the general public.

I don't think he deliberately tries to misinform. He's a money-dude who follows the marketing hype from major companies. And they're all about saying just how wonderful consoles are and how shitty pc gaming is these days

Blizzard does not operate on consoles...

If you compare numbers of games which are on all 3, consoles have more players and sales. If you compare all games, including things like Facebook, Myspace, pogo, and a ton of other sites and pc minded games, couple that with hardware sales, its impossible. Consoles cant compare.

They just ignore those facts cause it takes more time to investigate than just looking at sales reports for MW2.

Blizzard may be great development studio, but they're not a "major company". It's Activision that's the "major" part in Activision-Blizzard ;)

You don't have to go that far even, just already include online sales (which aren't included in official stats which only count retail) and PC is already bigger than console. But Pachter did say from the start he doesn't include MMOS and such in his comparison.

here is some more facts this is from stream

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
other facts about pc gaming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-j69RnEBAc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GPI9xDmRjk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2nJmKzOVY

here i just want to add a few more facts for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOJpCcY-4w

here is reason you don't hear about PC games a lot from the industry

more like some people trying their best to destory pc gaming

downloadablesuicide.com/2009/07/16/pc-gaming-its-problems-stem-from-mistreatment/

like Microsoft

www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53403

list of games coming to the pc
adrianwerner.wordpress.com/games-of-2010/

just want to add that 11 000 console game devs have lost jobs over them consoles with high production costs,,rented games, the used game market and piracy

www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/e3-predictions/

sony and microsoft is trying to gain their billions they lost on consoles and it is the reason why there no new consoles.


yup 11 000 consoles game devs bankrupt because of consoles and counting

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