When walking around my local PC world the other day I also noticed that there less new PC game titles on display.
There used to be a top 20 display shelf for PC games, now it's only 10 and it hasn't changed much over the last few months.
I also noticed that there is a lot of stuff that never use to be there or in small quantities like office furniture and digital picture frames ( the kind of tat found in Argos). And there definitely is more console games there.
The question whether todays PC's will end up like the Amiga and other computer systems all depends on what people use their computers for.
As gaming machines the problem there is if you want to run the latest games with all the bells & whistles you need a top-notch machine (some of the entry level machines that cost about £100 more than a console can run these games but not as good as consoles) that can cost thousands.
where as you can buy 2 XBox 360's for the price of a nvidia 9800GX2 or 1 XBox 360 with a couple of games for the price of a nvidia 9800GTX.
I can see that the only uses for a PC in the home market when PC gaming die out will be digital photography, the internet, people who work from home and pirating.
There used to be a top 20 display shelf for PC games, now it's only 10 and it hasn't changed much over the last few months.
I also noticed that there is a lot of stuff that never use to be there or in small quantities like office furniture and digital picture frames ( the kind of tat found in Argos). And there definitely is more console games there.
The question whether todays PC's will end up like the Amiga and other computer systems all depends on what people use their computers for.
As gaming machines the problem there is if you want to run the latest games with all the bells & whistles you need a top-notch machine (some of the entry level machines that cost about £100 more than a console can run these games but not as good as consoles) that can cost thousands.
where as you can buy 2 XBox 360's for the price of a nvidia 9800GX2 or 1 XBox 360 with a couple of games for the price of a nvidia 9800GTX.
I can see that the only uses for a PC in the home market when PC gaming die out will be digital photography, the internet, people who work from home and pirating.