More id on PC Gaming [Mar 20, 2008, 08:33 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
GamesIndustry.biz has more quotes on the state of PC gaming, this time from
Steve Nix, id Software Director of Business Development. Nix feels some of the
hardcore PC gaming audience is shifting to consoles, something id cannot
ignore:
"There are plenty of people who are diehard mouse and keyboard guys that may never go to console, and also right now, if you have the highest of high-end PCs, you're generally going to get a better visual experience," Nix said. "There's no console out there that's as powerful as a God machine right now, with a Quad-Core and a GeForce 8800 - it's very hard for any console to compete with that."
"So you still have PC players, and some players are just console guys, but have players moved over? Absolutely. We love PC gaming, and we continue to support PC gaming - but you can't ignore the market realities and the size of the console market these days."
steve nix is not ignoring market realities but he fails to admit that these assumptions are based on flawed statistics. someone is benefiting from not releasing the statistics of online sales and subscriptions but it clearly is not id software.
QFT!
If that stupid freaking NPD report wasn't so biased and out of touch, things wouldn't 'appear' remotely so bad. In reality, hand-helds are NOT consoles. YOu don't hook them up to your TV and sit on your couch and play them with a controller do you? Hand-Helds are generally in their own category, but apparently NPD figures everything for gaming that isn't a PC, must be a console.
Second, if that stupid ass report counted casual PC games, MMOG subscriptions and Digital sales, PC gaming would look MUCH stronger. Combined with Hand-Helds being in their own category, consoles wouldn't have looked nearly as strong, and PC's nearly as weak.
That and they should maybe look at the numbers for the world, not just the US. Here in the US consoles clearly have the spotlight. In Asia it's hand-helds, they use WAY more then any other platform. In Europe the PC platform is very very strong.
I have a feeling next years NPD report is going to be a lot more conservative and realistic. They've taken no small amount of flack over their botched 'report'.
This comment was edited on Mar 20, 12:04.
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