Consoles Are Dead, Long Live the PC?

[kojiro7]

I am a busy man,I used to have many consoles.Now I only have a pc,full of emulators and some next gen games,with a ps2topc joypad,connected to a 32'' TFT TV and 5.1 home cinema system,and I am mostly happy spending my free time.I also have a nintendo ds for external use.I am very happy with this combination,I will never buy a console again(only a new portable perharps)

[kjetil1991]

i have one laptop whit only 1 gb on vista so most new games cant be played ;/ then i bought a 360 =)

[inlovewithi]

Unlike console, you can't just pop in a game and start playing it, you have to install it, then go through this whole process of mapping your controller, go through DRM crap hard ware crap and so on and so on. Most adults aren't rich, and have very little time to play games and just have too many things on their mind than to pop in a console game and play right away, much less go through the installation process of a pc game, and the constant configuration. PCs are superior, but for gaming it doesn't appeal to the mass market. Also lets say you have a big collection pc games, it eats up so many GB. Not worth it. You uninstall them to save memory, but if one day you have an itch to play a game again, you can't just pop it in and play.

[Capt_Trips]

The crazy man is right:

the value of any game is determined socially after it has been played. And more ads do not increase sales, they only make more people aware of the product.

Consider Bandit Kings of Ancient China for the NES. It costs a small fortune to buy used (is priceless new), is only worth 50 cents per playing session, and no one wants to play it (except me and my uncle every second year.)

Why is such an obscure game worth so much money when no one really wants it?

The issue here is collectorship: Remakes, reissues, updates and emulation detract from the value of collectables and memories.

I hate to sound like a communist, but I now understand why people steal: Its real use value is zero, in disregard of the gobs and wads of cash sunk into its development. Any personal value is derived after the fact of playing.

May it be time to stop playing games? Believe me when I say, If I have no time for games, my kids will be playing the ball on a string in a cup game and hide-and-go-seek-daddy's-bottle game.