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RE: Good times
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 6/11/2012 10:35:35 AM , Rating: 2
Average consumers still play hardcore PC games? PC games are being relegated to a niche it seems. Consoles are the mainstream game systems these days and what most developers target because that's where the $$$ is.

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By bug77 on 6/11/2012 11:23:56 AM , Rating: 3
Going by that definition, average users don't need SSDs either as their needs are covered by a tablet these days. If space was so unnecessary, why make HDDs larger than 320GB? Nobody would buy them.

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By MrBlastman on 6/11/2012 12:02:20 PM , Rating: 2
I don't care if it is a niche or not, I'm in it and I like it. :)

If developers were to stop making a great deal of "hardcore" titles for my "market," It wouldn't matter so much as most of the hardcore crowd just makes the game themselves (or mods it) if nobody else will make what they want.

Just look at Mechwarrior Living Legends... no Mechwarrior for YEARS, what do they do? Middle finger and make their own. Falcon BMS... no true hardcore dynamic campaign based simulator supporting cockpits and external displays, what do they do? They mod it themselves. There's plenty more examples but these two get the point across.

I believe that if kickstarter proves anything in the future, it will be that there is plenty of demand for certain types of gaming that have been written off by the suits for years, yet, somehow there still is a way to make money with them for the target audience. Kickstarter is a neat experiment for now but I think it might be a thorn in big business' side in the future. If all of a sudden the publishers find that designers don't need them... what are they going to do?

RE: Good times
By Solandri on 6/11/2012 12:26:15 PM , Rating: 3

If you've been around a while, you've seen this cycle before. Hot new consoles come out and everyone talks about how PC games are being relegated to a niche. A few years later when the console GPU hardware is getting long in the tooth, everyone talks about the resurgence of PC gaming. Then the new consoles come out and the cycle repeats. Have you seen the demo videos coming out of E3? They're gorgeous, and they're all PC. The current gen consoles (which were fixed in stone two PC upgrades ago for me) just don't have the horsepower to render like that.

PCs will always have access to the latest GPU hardware and will thus always eclipse consoles on the gaming front a few years after a console is released. Unless they can get the time between new console versions down to 2-3 years, it's always going to be like this. And I doubt that will happen because then they'll have to deal with the other PC version problems like upgrades, compatibility, and user-swappable parts. At that point you might as well buy a PC.

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By Reclaimer77 on 6/11/2012 5:28:59 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah PC gamers are such a niche man.

*logs into Diablo 3 to join the other 60+ million "niche" players*


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Niche is relative.

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