Notes from a PC Gamer: The time is coming to switch

[kuyu]

I too am tiring of the PC gaming scene. It's too expensive, and the titles are drying. In fact, the whole thing has been in decline since the HL2 launch.

My gaming PC is for sale, and I think I found a buyer for $950!!! And not on eBay. Besides, the only PC game I play anymore is WoW, which will work on the mac I'm replacing the PC with.

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

the next generation of consoles, the ones after the Xbox360 and the PS3, i wonder if they will have limited upgradability.

Nintendo sort of did this with the RAM "Expansion Pak" for the N64. It seemed to piss off a lot of people once developers started requiring this upgrade.

There were also problems with third-party dupes that had stability and overheating issues.

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

God I can't keep one PS2 running (just replaced my 4th)

Wow. Either you're brutal to your systems or you're terminally stupid.

Five PS2s? What game could possibly be that good?

 

[Mord]

Oh yeah, as much as I love PC's - I predict within 10 years apple will have at least 20 percent of the home market (up from their current 2 percent)

it's at about 3.5% now.

and for those whining about lack of KB and mouse you can plug a keyboard and mouse for fps into an xbox with a cheap adapter and i'm sure you will be able to with an xbox 360, personally i'm buying one when halo 3 comes out as none of the launch titles excite me much.

 

[Foniks Munkee]

it's at about 3.5% now.

Oh, sorry - I just recalled reading something on Slashdot about the market share dropping from 2.2 to 1.8 or something - yet their revenue went up due to the iPod.

But its probably just a brain freeze, nevermind me.

 

[Foniks Munkee]

According to the numbers obtained first by The Mac Observer, Apple's worldwide market share ranking was tenth with a 1.8% share on unit sales of 836,300. In the second quarter, Apple posted a 2.1% share on sales of 879,900 Macintosh personal computers. During the same quarter last year, Apple had a 1.8% share after selling 791,100 Macs.

This is basically what I was working off, but what is unclear is whether they were just talking about Q3 only, or overall - couldn't find the slashdot article.

[EDIT] Actually I think the figures your quoting of 3.5% is the US market share, worldwide its about 1.8 down from 2.1. Still, I think this is only a temporary lull.

[EDIT] Another edit! But it seems that while the overall share is declining, they are selling more machines than ever - its just that PC's are selling even more. So its not as bad as it sounds at first I guess.

 

[Mord]

when are these numbers from?, apple's sales are outgrowing the idustry worldwide at the moment, rember it's portable and desktop market share if you find that figure it's about 2.4 mistake, my previous estimate was a tad overzealous

 

[Foniks Munkee]

Mmm.. its actually hard to find anything up to date - your right, this was only for the desktop share and it was from November 2004 - there apparently has been at least a 0.5 percent increase since then (as of April this year), but again, only desktop, not taking into account portable.

 

[Mord]

50 million pc's are sold per quarter (approx) and apple shiped about a million macs last quater i make that 2%. one in 50 computers sold was a mac.