Re: Not bad for a dead platform...

On 24/01/2025 18:39, Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:40:51 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
 

But I get a smile at this turn-around. Suck it, Cliff Bleszinski;
we're still here! ;-)

 I haven't really heard that the PC was dying as a gaming platform for
some time now but I do remember when it was a thing. I also know that
some people are now concerned for the future of XBox.

It's come and gone over the years and the last time I remember it being a thing was when the price of GPU's became somewhat silly*, well even more silly than now, several years ago. That seemed a bit overblown as yes the prices were frankly stupid but how many games, to the nearest zero, do I need a £2,000 GPU for. Thankfully the era, if it ever really existed, of you need a high performance PC to be a 'real' gamer seems to have died. What will happen in the future, I'm really not sure but the good thing about confidently predicting it is if you get it right you can bring it up and say how brilliant you are. If you get it wrong then just ignore that you ever said it!
As for the XBox, I really don't follow console news but yes there do seem to be some rumblings that MS are reconsidering the strategy to focus more on software than hardware.
I was slightly fortunate as I missed the worse of it and bought a relative cheap and cheerful 1050 OC 4GB for my last system refresh. I checked after about a year or two just wondering what price it had gone down to, oh it had gone up in price over something like %60.