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| Quote: | Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform.
The alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies, and game publishers under one roof to "accelerate innovation, improve the gaming experience for consumers and serve as a collective source of market information and expertise on PC gaming," the alliance said in a statement.
The companies will work together on challenges facing the PC gaming industry, including piracy and the establishment of hardware requirements for PC games, the alliance said. PCGA also hopes to accelerate growth of the PC gaming industry and standardize the development of gaming PCs and software by developing and promoting guidelines.
The alliance comes at a time when PC video game sales are falling. PC games sales in the United States were $910.7 million in 2007, down from $970 million in 2006, according to research from NPD Techworld. PC game sales in 2007 dwarfed in comparison to the sale of software for video game consoles like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Wii, which were $6.6 billion.
Unit shipments of PC game software totaled 36.4 million in 2007, compared to video game software unit shipments of 153.9 million, according to NPD.
The U.S. gaming industry already has the Entertainment Software Association, which represents vendors that publish games for both computers and consoles. About 90 percent of the $7.4 billion revenue of PC and console gaming software in 2006 belonged to ESA members, giving the association a dominant presence.
Other PCGA members include Acer, Epic, Nvidia, and Razer USA.
The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference, which is being held in San Francisco. During the show PCGA member Intel launched a new gaming platform formerly code-named "Skulltrail." The Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform includes two quad-core microprocessors, totaling eight processing engines, and supports graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia. |
Very nice... however i wish they would stop just quoting just US figures for game sales...
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my fear is, that instead of supporting the development of actually good games, they will put millions and millions in weird copy protection methods ...
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 00:06 Post subject: |
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| Sin317 wrote: | | my fear is, that instead of supporting the development of actually good games, they will put millions and millions in weird copy protection methods ... |
..and you can bet your ass with Microsoft involved there is a conflict of interest. |
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 00:18 Post subject: |
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| Sin317 wrote: | | my fear is, that instead of supporting the development of actually good games, they will put millions and millions in weird copy protection methods ... |
Nvidia.. intel .. dell.. etc could not really care about piracy... bit hard to pirate hardware ^_^
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Pure smoke
I don´t think that they are so stupid to make protection in hardware.Its just a too risky move,what if people simply don´t buy the protected hardware.
Imagine that Nvidia make a protected card and ATI doesn´t it´s like having 2 criminals in a room with a knife and suddenly turn off the light.
Take Vista for example worst MS move since Millenium crap.Nobody want its even pirated its so bad.
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| GeorgeIvanovich wrote: | Pure smoke
I don´t think that they are so stupid to make protection in hardware.Its just a too risky move,what if people simply don´t buy the protected hardware.
Imagine that Nvidia make a protected card and ATI doesn´t it´s like having 2 criminals in a room with a knife and suddenly turn off the light.
Take Vista for example worst MS move since Millenium crap.Nobody want its even pirated its so bad. |
x[p wish pissshhh at 1st don't forget.
After a service pack or 2 i reckon vista will be ok.
I use xp though.
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Interesting that Microsoft has joined this alliance. Same thing as when they touted about PC gaming a year earlier I guess. Their motive is just to sell their latests operating system and their console. Their actions (360 exclusives, DX10 Vista only, etc) show that their primary interest is far from 'saving PC gaming' (profit, marketing share, you name it).
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im talking about software cp, not hardware lol.
think about it, they want to raise sells , and since everyone blames piracy for lower sell, since it is so much easier than to blame low quality standards ...
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something tells me they will only try to make better copy protections.... but the same feeling tells me they will only delay the next inevitable thing: new copy protections cracked  )).
the only + of this alliance is if they can make a standard for PC games .... cos i think we are all very very bored of this "new and innovative game" we have in our days ....
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hate to admit it, but microsoft will be our one major hope for keeping pc gaming alive... they need us to promote their OS.. its a horrible situation to be in, but whats the alternative 
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PC gaming isn't dying, the established developers (who are churning out sequels incidentally) are simply going where the money is.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 21:39 Post subject: |
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| Ispep wrote: | | PC gaming isn't dying, the established developers (who are churning out sequels incidentally) are simply going where the money is. |
Doesn't the second statement contradict the first? If many established developers are making consoles their primary release platform thats part of the reason for the decline in PC gaming.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 21:42 Post subject: |
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Any link to the source?
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Feb 2008 21:53 Post subject: |
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| AnimalMother wrote: | | Ispep wrote: | | PC gaming isn't dying, the established developers (who are churning out sequels incidentally) are simply going where the money is. |
Doesn't the second statement contradict the first? If many established developers are making consoles their primary release platform thats part of the reason for the decline in PC gaming. |
No, the same way television never killed the film industry, it's just 'different' a different ballpark. There's no decline on the PC, it's swings and roundabouts for every platform and the PC has always survived because it's self-sufficient, it doesn't need games or success to survive. |
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There's no distinction. As long as the PC exists gaming on the PC will exist. Now I will grant you at the moment (and looking into the near future) the market seems heavily dominated by consoles and heavily geared towards home entertainment systems (what Microsoft is really interested in) - and it's true that big names are shitting on the PC scene - but that doesn't mean PC gaming has died, or that it's dying. It's just in a lull, as it has been in previous lulls.
It will always survive because the PC will survive - it might even be that the console division is finally obliterated at some point, because lets face it, the xbox and to a lesser extent the ps3 resemble more a PC than traditional consoles and if that trend continues who knows?
You suggested it was a contradiction that big name developers were moving to the console arena and that PC gaming isn't dying - but that requires you to believe their reasons for 'jumping ship' which I don't.
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Why MS is there? (XBOX)
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Feb 2008 06:34 Post subject: |
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| bonespirit wrote: | | Why MS is there? (XBOX) |
Windowzzzzzzzzzz
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| -=Cartoon=- wrote: | | bonespirit wrote: | | Why MS is there? (XBOX) |
Windowzzzzzzzzzz |
Viiisssttaaaaa
selling like crap cause no one wants to be part of the DX10 scam |
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58166
Activision/Blizzard and Acer leave the PCGA, enter Gamestop and Sony DADC(pretty much the guys behind Securom).
"PC Gaming Aliance" eh? What a fucking joke. 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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wow that is kinda scary... the TRUE PC gaming alliance should be all those old developers from Bullfrog, westwood, lucasarts (ye olde kind), black isle and such and coming together to make THE game-s (FOR PC ONLY), not a bunch of buggy software that looks good and milks Shiny coins from the girlie purses of gamers.
me thinks a suspicious amount of fail will come of this
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How surprising.
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Oh noes ,all is lost...
I'm trading my PC for a derpbox.
Goodbye PC gaming, it was fun while it lasted. 
At least microsoft leaving is understandable, I mean, they're too busy bringing gaming back to the PC with Windows 8, so it's logical for them to leave... oh wait.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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(from wow to guitar hero to call of duty etc etc...) and neither need weirdo copy protection schemes nor weird innovative ways of doing *new* stuff (whatever they may be) ...
