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    Battlefield 1943

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Garandhero, Jul 7, 2009.

  1. st0nedpenguin

    st0nedpenguin Notebook Evangelist

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    Indeed.

    It just takes a different kind of player ability to work around the quirks inherent in a joypad based system.

    And saying consoles are designed for bad players is retarded, they're designed for mass market, to appear to a larger audience.

    Which is probably why the console game retail market isn't steadily nosediving into oblivion like the PC one is. :rolleyes:
     
    st0nedpenguin, Jul 11, 2009
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  2. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Uhhhh, please give me solid figures that shows PC game market is diving?
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 11, 2009
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    st0nedpenguin Notebook Evangelist

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    Google is awesome. Seriously.

    Declining sales + higher piracy rates = why lead on PC when you can put out a console version that'll sell better and have much lower piracy rates?
     
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    Where can you buy 1943 for consoles? I thought it was out July 8? But no stores (Gamestop, Best Buy, Target, Amazon) even have it on their websites.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 11, 2009
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  5. Garandhero

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    Download only game.

    But hes right just go into any Gamestop etc. these days and notice how thier PC collection has shrunk. They used to be all PC games practically, now most of them have 1 small floor shelf for games. Unfortunatley PC game sales have been in sharp decline for a few years.
     
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    I don't want to start this again, but online distribution has become huge, and those sales are never accounted for when compared with games sold off the shelf like consoles.

    This article is a year old, but it tells the story. First of a few hits of google for info on this.

    Video games sales in general are declining, mainly due to the recession, but overall as a market PC games are following the same trend as consoles.
     
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  7. st0nedpenguin

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    Looks like the console industry is doing fine.

    And while the figures don't include online distribution, neither do the console figures, and Xbox Live alone rakes in cash hand over fist for Microsoft.
     
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    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    TBH, I'm buying most new PC games I get off STEAM. It's just so much more convenient even though my net connection would let me go to the store and get a boxed copy and back before it's finished downloading but then I have to deal with whether or not a particular store has it in stock and if the disk get's damaged or lost or this and that.

    PC gaming is not going anywhere, any time soon, as a matter of fact, EA said that PC gaming was their strongest market!
     
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    I too dont like buying games in stores... i try to buy everything on steam these days.
     
    Garandhero, Jul 11, 2009
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    agreed. i only buy from steam. i will download wherever if the game is free (like BF heroes) but dealing with CD keys, discs, installing, patches, etc. just isn't worth it anymore with steam around.

    also, if you reformat your computer with any regularity, steam makes it ultra-convenient to get your games reinstalled. click the ones you want and forget, instead of finding each disc, swapping, patching...

    anyway, PC gaming isn't tanking, and i don't think anyone said it was.
     
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