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Originally Posted by dduff442
It looks like PC gaming is on the way out except for niches like flight sims. This is a pity because PC games allow much more interesting games than the clunky game-controllers permit.
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I think some on the hardware side wanted this, but it isn't working out that way.
The bog-standard Laptop with the integrated graphics is dying, the netbook that replaced it is getting minimally game-capable graphics (nVidia Ion), and cheaper gaming capable laptops seem to be appearing.
All in all, there was a decline in PC gaming for a while, due in part to the competitive graphics on the new consoles. As the consoles have aged and PC graphics have overtaken them, PC gaming is coming back, not strongly yet, but I suspect that before the next generation of consoles arrive it will have recovered more substantially.
Then there will probably be another temporary decline, and if the new consoles come with upgradeable graphics, or PCs don't any more that might not be so temporary, but that's apparently two or three years off yet.