Gartner Says PC Will "Cease to be Important Game Platform"

[cats_Paw]

Yet anotehr bunch of people who make money and do nothing usefull.

 

[zaratustra89]

100K? LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#PC

[/quotemsg]

I guess i didn´t really get your point, where you pointing to the "astounding" sales of pc games with a long 10 or 15 year old history in gaming? or where you showing me the huge amount of mobile games with a very recent appearance that top those pc games and even go on to the billions of copies downloaded in the case of Angry Birds?(Sure it´s free but it gives you an idea of the market size)

 

[ram1009]

Guys like this are constantly making boastful claims and predictions that support their own positions, hoping that if they talk long and loud enough people will believe them to maximize their profit. It's all BS.

 

[zaratustra89]

You must be pretty young. Gaming's foundation is with consoles, not PC's... PC gaming didn't start gaining mainstream steam until the early 90's at earliest.

Allright, allright i might have overdone it with the pc being the foundation since consoles did mainstream gaming. i´m just saying dedicated, game lovin´, god fearing, hardcore life long gamers love the pc as the quintessential essence of gaming. but anyways my point is that huge pc market will probably be overshadowed by the overwhelming masification of mobile gaming.

 

[canadianvice]

People have been announcing the death of the PC for a long time - it's like the end of days. The fact is PC is going strong and there's a reason I left consoles permanently 6 years ago. Frankly, I'm pretty sure I've spent more of my life as a PC gamer than a console one; the controllers are nice. Barring that, why would you want to pay for something that isn't upgradeable and usually only good for a few years?

 

[zaratustra89]

danscan...

Now,I´m quoting Gartners own figures so keep yer mind open.
-http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/01/17/2013-roundup-of-mobility-forecasts-and-market-estimates/
-http://virtualpatrick.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/post-pc-era-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-important/
-http://us.blizzard.com/es-mx/games/mobile/
The first link tells us what Gartner is looking at: astounding mobile growth. Double the unit production for premium smartphones by 2016, reaching 1 billion premium phones a year.Tablets and other mobile devices have similar growth figures. I challenge anyone to find similar growth patterns in consumer electronics not even considering it´s a sustained growth in an already massive market.
The second link has a pretty graph with current shipped units, and the stale growth of the pc market.
It doesn´t even matter if good old gamer like you and me don´t consider true gamers all those casual farmville lovin people. The market does, and the market is lord of all.
Now the third link is the funnest of all. I think blizzard heard about it.
Anyways the point is, and i do believe i´m not contradicting myself, pc gaming will be important because its a steadily yet slowly growing market niche. But its relevance will be overshadowed by a much bigger, faster growing market.We´ll still be there, just suffocated by bird throwing retards. Perhaps this will lead to mobile gaming refinement or to the masification of retarded gaming, who knows, but Gartner is just following the growth trends in mobile and the pc market stagnation.

 

[coupe]

Given the current generation is growing up with touch devices, it will be interesting in 5-10 years to see what the gaming landscape will be like.

But calling PC gaming irrelevant, that seems like a bit much.

 

[tchahin]

Mr. Gartner, you're fired!

 

[tchahin]

Mr. Gartner, you're fired!

 

[therogerwilco]

PC Gaming will NEVER go away. Why? Because it's the only gaming I spend money on. Not those crappy consoles, and definitely not those crappy open source attempts. I require DirectX and custom hardware. PC Gaming will never go away, because there are more people than myself that feel this way.

 

[robochump]

This article is brought to you by the new PS4 and XBox One...

 

[chibiwings]

PC gaming "Cease to be important"? will he still say that after the retail released of Oculus Rift.

 

[Skippy27]

Gartner's Business Plan:
Step 1: Make negative prediction to lower PC reliant companies stock to go down even just a fraction of a %.

Step 2: Invest heavily in the companies after their stock has "bottomed out" as much as it will from our "prediction".

Step 3: Make money hand over fist as people realize we are idiots for doing Step 1 and the value of the stocks return to normal.

 

[smeezekitty]

100K? LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#PC

I guess i didn´t really get your point, where you pointing to the "astounding" sales of pc games with a long 10 or 15 year old history in gaming? or where you showing me the huge amount of mobile games with a very recent appearance that top those pc games and even go on to the billions of copies downloaded in the case of Angry Birds?(Sure it´s free but it gives you an idea of the market size)

The sims series alone out sells top games on both XBOX 360 and PS3

 

[earthrat]

I know weather men that are more accurate than Gartner. Gartner has about as much chance being believed about PC games as Obama has at winning a third term!

 

[cleo fortyeight]

I'd suggest the clients of this fool firm give NewEgg a call and find out how many units of Mobos and GPUs they are shipping per month. That ought to put an end to THIS outfit.

 

[cleo fortyeight]

I'd suggest the clients of this fool firm give NewEgg a call and find out how many units of Mobos and GPUs they are shipping per month. That ought to put an end to THIS outfit.