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Thread ID: 109810 2010-05-24 00:48:00 XBOX 360 vs. PS3 vims213 (15007) PC World Chat
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887611 2010-06-04 08:32:00 Yes? . . . no . . . . . maybe? how does proud come into it?, I suppose Nintendo are very proud of their sales figures,and rightly so .

I guess you missed the goings on when the PS2 and Xbox were going hell bent for leather, with the mass closure of PC developers, gaming devs switching platforms just to survive and MS buying up everyone they could while shutting down their own PC game development and discontinuing all PC gaming devices .

I would hope PC game sales have since risen,The number of PC's in homes has increased massively, Its just an indication of the decline that the market share of the PC in regards to gaming has not recovered .





How many burgers with maggots in them would you put up with before you switched to fried chicken?

I doubt anyone can exaggerate how much damage DRM has done to PC gaming .

My point . . .

The decreasing share for PC in the overall game market "Percentage" is a result of Wii sales which is dumped in the "console" category .

We all know Wii is largely a different animal than PC/Xbox360 or PS3 .

Remove Wii sales and the PC share of the market gained in recent years, both in number raw units moved and total gaming industry percentage wise .

Like so many statistics, you have to analyse them in detail before running around hysterically crying PC gaming is dying where its clearly not .
Battleneter2 (9361)
887612 2010-06-04 09:06:00 The PC gaming decline is very real, and the wii is definitely a console.

weird.
Metla (12)
887613 2010-06-04 09:15:00 wii is not a console. and pc gaming is really not in decline goodiesguy (15316)
887614 2010-06-04 09:26:00 How on earth is the wii not a console?:stare:

How many times it called a console in this article?

en.wikipedia.org

Whats it sold as?,what do the manufactures market it as? what does the entire world consider it to be?
Metla (12)
887615 2010-06-04 09:31:00 its a fitness tool with extra games goodiesguy (15316)
887616 2010-06-04 09:38:00 yeah, owch. i don't have a girl friend. im waiting till im older. im only 14. people a school say im a homosexual cos im still single and a virgin

Mate, that's the sorta thing you keep to yourself...

Don't feel bad though, I didn't get a girl till I was 18!
ubergeek85 (131)
887617 2010-06-04 09:47:00 its a fitness tool with extra games

Its a console, The fact that they have expanded the market to people that don't normally play games doesn't make it anything else.

If I travelled into the Amazon forest and sold a fleet of cars to some bush people who had never bought a car before, they would still be cars.

Either way, No matter what ridicules claims are made about the Wii, whatever you elect to call it, It does not negate the changes that have happened to the gaming industry and the position of the PC in the scheme of things.
Metla (12)
887618 2010-06-04 10:55:00 How on earth is the wii not a console?:stare:

How many times it called a console in this article?

en.wikipedia.org

Whats it sold as?,what do the manufactures market it as? what does the entire world consider it to be?

i counted "console" 120 times
GameJunkie (72)
887619 2010-06-04 11:08:00 If the Wii isnt a console then the Xbox wont be once Natal comes out in Oct / Nov. It'll do exactly what you can do with the Wii (but will probably do a better job) Speedy Gonzales (78)
887620 2010-06-04 11:13:00 I find it hard to believe it's a fitness machine. :waughh: Nomad (952)
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