PC Gaming Alliance Formed [Feb 20, 2008, 10:29 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Top technology companies form gaming alliance (thanks Mike Martinez) officially
announces the formation of the gaming alliance first revealed last week
(story) to help promote/revive the PC gaming scene. Here's word:
Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform.
The alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies, and game publishers under one roof to "accelerate innovation, improve the gaming experience for consumers and serve as a collective source of market information and expertise on PC gaming," the alliance said in a statement.
The companies will work together on challenges facing the PC gaming industry, including piracy and the establishment of hardware requirements for PC games, the alliance said. PCGA also hopes to accelerate growth of the PC gaming industry and standardize the development of gaming PCs and software by developing and promoting guidelines.
The alliance comes at a time when PC video game sales are falling. PC games sales in the U.S. were $910.7 million in 2007, down from $970 million in 2006, according to research from NPD Techworld. PC game sales in 2007 dwarfed in comparison to the sale of software for video game consoles like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Wii, which were $6.6 billion.
Unit shipments of PC game software totaled 36.4 million in 2007, compared to video game software unit shipments of 153.9 million, according to NPD.
The U.S. gaming industry already has the Entertainment Software Association, which represents vendors that publish games for both computers and consoles. About 90 percent of the $7.4 billion revenue of PC and console gaming software in 2006 belonged to ESA members, giving the association a dominant presence.
Other PCGA members include Acer, Epic, Nvidia and Razer USA.
The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference, which is being held in San Francisco. During the show PCGA member Intel launched a new gaming platform formerly code-named "Skulltrail." The Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform includes two quad-core microprocessors, totaling eight-processing engines, and supports graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia.
"I truly think console gaming is dumbed down."
I agreed with and vehemently believed that too, in the past. THE PAST!
Look at the games being released on consoles now, the kind of games they simply couldn't deal with before, are being released and in development - RTS's, RPG's, MMO's, FP's... The console has finally come to appeal to even hardcore PC gamers like myself, because what I want they either have, or are creative enough, and knowledgable enough to now bring to the console.
With WiC, and End War coming to console this year, we are seeing a new era in console gaming. With Resistance 2, up to 60 players in one server alone, this is on par with PC gaming.
Right now I play Resistance MP, with UK players, Asia players, American players LAG FREE. This does NOT happen with any PC game I have ever owned, and own now (I still play CoD4 on PC).
PC Gaming shot itself in the foot a long time ago, and WoW does not help either... It takes far too many people away from buying anything else. MMORPG's in general ruin the market I feel, keeping players in one game for months and years on end?! Why buy anything else when this one game can occupy my time for years? And this is mainly the PC gaming world.
Screw PC gaming, I'm sick of it.
Mouse/Keyboard rules, but Microsoft, shite DX10, failing drivers, consistent issues... ENOUGH!
I agreed with and vehemently believed that too, in the past. THE PAST!
Look at the games being released on consoles now, the kind of games they simply couldn't deal with before, are being released and in development - RTS's, RPG's, MMO's, FP's... The console has finally come to appeal to even hardcore PC gamers like myself, because what I want they either have, or are creative enough, and knowledgable enough to now bring to the console.
With WiC, and End War coming to console this year, we are seeing a new era in console gaming. With Resistance 2, up to 60 players in one server alone, this is on par with PC gaming.
Right now I play Resistance MP, with UK players, Asia players, American players LAG FREE. This does NOT happen with any PC game I have ever owned, and own now (I still play CoD4 on PC).
PC Gaming shot itself in the foot a long time ago, and WoW does not help either... It takes far too many people away from buying anything else. MMORPG's in general ruin the market I feel, keeping players in one game for months and years on end?! Why buy anything else when this one game can occupy my time for years? And this is mainly the PC gaming world.
Screw PC gaming, I'm sick of it.
Mouse/Keyboard rules, but Microsoft, shite DX10, failing drivers, consistent issues... ENOUGH!
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