PC gaming, about to die or experience a revival?

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ThePerm:
I can see businesses switching to tablets. Why? I used to work at a company that was totally incompetent. Not everything that changes, changes for the better. Tablets are trendy.

I think in the near future PC will be pretty niche. It will make a comeback though, eventually.

At my house I used to use Wii U as my netflix player, but when they changed the design I switched to one of my PCs hooked up to a 1080p display. I use a wireless mouse, and keyboard. Ideally though I would just use a tablet and it would just mirror control my pc. Right now I use tablets to look **** up while I do media stuff on my pc.

I have another computer in another room hooked up to a smaller monitor for gaming and "art". I wrote a novel, made a metroid clone demo. I could never do that on a tablet. I would just get annoyed and give up.

nickmitch:

--- Quote from: UncleBob on February 11, 2016, 09:31:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ian Sane on February 11, 2016, 07:59:13 PM ---Anyone that thinks that tablets will replace PCs obviously never uses a computer to do anything resembling real work.

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Agreed. I can't see doing my job on a tablet. But, I feel the number of people who would need a computer at home for work (and be able to let the kids install/play games on it) is not going to be significant over the next few years.

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The way I work now, I have two (or three) monitors, a keyboard, a mouse, and a handful of other things plugged into my laptop, which sits on a dock. I rarely interact with the laptop physically, unless I'm on the go. I think, if a tablet can become that powerful and have the OS, then I can replace the laptop. If I need to work on the road, an attachable keyboard and trackpad will suffice.

Now, if you need 32 GB of RAM and 16 TB of hard drive, then that's gonna be a different story.

lolmonade:
I work in a large, large company. We're just starting to make options for tablets to connect to our internet & remote VPN. Smaller companies might start using tablets (one of our suppliers actually does this, makes it easy for them to mark up a print with changes they want to a product they're quoting with us), but the size of the ship will largely depend on how quickly they can turn. My company is largely moving to smaller laptops, not touchscreens.

For gaming, I'm actually working selecting parts for my first PC build, but this is borne out of necessity at this point. My last couple of computers I bought from Best Buy, but the last one was in 2006. If you go into one now, they have maybe 2-3 desktops that are woefully underpowered for anything serious. Everything else in their computer section are laptops, tablets, and Apple products.

It's a weird transition period we're in. I think a lot of people are seeing tablets as a tool for casual computer tasks (check email, facebook, twitter, etc), laptops for mid-tier work (think Microsoft Office), and desktops for dedicated functions that require heavy processing.

To answer the OP's initial question - I think PC gaming is growing, but the growth pace is slowing. A lot of people jumped on board for PC gaming when Steam started doing their huge sales a couple times a year, but I think that growth has to cap as people who see value in PC gaming intersect with people who see more value in a "plug-and-play" experience that consoles historically have provided. But while I think the population of PC gamers will cap-off, I think that traditionally console developers are making a greater effort to port their games to PC when they now see that PC is actually another viable revenue stream.

michaelbaysuperfan616:
I want to buy a dedicated desktop PC just for gaming purposes but I think it might be more worth my money to just pick up an Xbox One or wait and see what the NX ends up being/doing.

I am also kind of tempted to start setting back money for Sony VR not sure when it launches or what it will be like but I watched Hackers a couple of weeks ago and my interest in VR is starting to rise again.

oohhboy:
One word: Steam.

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