' Wrote:(1.) PC gaming looks like it's on it's way out.
(2.) Don't get me wrong here, but it seems that there are less and less games being made for PC's and then ported to the consoles.
(3.) These days it seems to be going the other way, with 'computer games' being designed to run on consoles and then being ported to PC's or as seems to be the more often these days, not even being released for PC's.
(4.) Granted, there will *always* be people out there that primarily use their computers for games, apart from e-mail and whatever else, but we, the computer using people, will end up with only 'homegrown' games or old games that are highly moddable and therefore have a more or less unlimited lifespan, as long as people stay interested in them, like Freelancer.
(5.) What do you think?
1. Thats what they always say.
2. Thats a 'trend'. See 3.
3. Because its way easier to produce games for a setted hardbox like whatever console where you as programmer can work with fixed parameters to gain the best in graphics (and thats about what it mostly is these days) and not being needed to think about multiple variations of several different component configurations of hardware like with a Personal Computer.
Console games are easier to produce/develop, cost during that progress less money and sell in the end for more money as any computer game, the profit margin is massiv with them.
4. The Personal Computer is on its run for victory since it was the first time created, and this progress will likely not stop. And no Console can keep up with High-End-PC's, was never the case, isnt the case, will never be the case.
5. Personal oppinion? Personal Computer is/was/and will be the main multimedia and working platform for any ambitious and honest programmer/coder/gamer/multimedia-freak.
No Console can keep up with the flexibility a PC can provide.
