NPD: BioWare Wrong; PC Games Down 14%

[radguy]

While it sucks that this study doesn't include the online sales you can't disclude retail from the picture either. I find some of the best deals on pc games in retail. Steam is pretty good and has some great deals but not many can beat target when they decide to stop carrying a game and put it on clearence. (
An alternative note is that I went to buy farcry 2 from bestbuy the day it was released. (I had a giftcard and didn't know how big of a mistake buying that game was going to be. No offence but I didn't care for it.) They had all the xbox 360 copies out on display and I asked them if they had the pc version. The guy spent 10 minutes looking up the release date to see if he could sell me a copy and then spent another 10 minutes in the back looking for it. I think it shows the retail state of pc games.

 

[pochacco007]

pc gaming is and isn't dead. it is dying because no one plays it on a computer but it is alive because it's shifting to somewhere else. where is it going? to the consoles. pc gaming got dumbed down.

1-you no longer have to worry about requirements [hardware and software] as what people had to worry about in the past.

2-controls got simpler as you now don't have to use majority of the keyboards to play a game. keyboard and mouse is the pc domain, but as long as the controller is useable then it's okay. to use dual analog to play first person shooters is crazy but it works.