Printer/scanner superstar Hewlett-Packard showed off its plans to enter the PC gaming market last night, and unsurprisingly there was an air of hostility towards those old-fangled games consoles the kids are talking about these days.
The first snipes came from a panel of industry leaders that included Games for Windows boss Rich Wickham and other gaming bods. "I believe the days of the console are numbered," said Trion World Network founder Lars Butler. "There is one more generation of gaming consoles and that is it," he claimed.
The broadband game publisher boss says that the gaming potential of PCs could render games consoles obsolete.
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NVIDIA vice president Roy Taylor also painted a rosy future for the mouse and keyboard side of gaming: "Our advantage as developers is we know what is coming," he said. "And what is coming is far ahead of the console. You will see a huge difference between what you can get on a PC (personal computer) and a console."
HP plans to roll out a new line of gaming gear later this year including a curved computer display designed to immerse players in the action.
As PC tech climbs above the capabilities of the next-gen consoles it will certainly be interesting to see if the dooms day prophecies for PC gaming yet again turn out to be hot air. Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
That's true - and it will cost you over £1,000 pounds for all of the parts to be able to play the game - and a further £500+ to upgrade it so that you aren't playing your games with all of effects off and quality down.
I'm quite happy to pay £400 for the technically inferior PS3 and 360! Nintendo are going the right way and instead of just bulking up each generation (competing with everyone else), they're going off on one so that we have a completely difference experience.
