The big frickin Valve SUPRISE!

[overlord20]

By watching the Valve Press Conference that is what I am assuming.

 

[james.wired]

E3 has been pretty sweet though, good stuff!!

 

[Apokalipse]

crap....pc gaming is gonna go bye bye soon enough.

It won't. How many years have people been saying this?

 

[Luke]

^ i didn't mean like poof gone. i meant like more and more devs are going to be making games either really well for consoles, or exclusively. Pc gaming will be around for a long time, but console gaming is going to be getting pretty big. I should probably just except it and try to get on the wagon.

 

[Apokalipse]

^ i didn't like poof gone. i meant like more and more devs are going to be making games either really well for consoles, or exclusively. Pc gaming will be around for a long time, but console gaming is going to be getting pretty big. I should probably just except it and try to get on the wagon.

console gaming getting bigger doesn't mean PC gaming will get replaced.
The whole point of what Valve is doing now is for cross-platforming, so ideally you can have the same games on all systems.
But which system people choose is still up to them. In fact it will matter less.

I think it really comes down to this: console gaming is generally less expensive and less capable. PC gaming is generally more expensive and more capable.
If valve succeeds in making games cross-platform on all systems, it will basically mean the choice of games is a factor that won't exist in terms of the systems people choose, unless the capability of the system affects gameplay for particular games (lol Crysis).

 

[FoxMcCarther]

Or, as overlord so artfully put in another thread

Crytek, Kicking technology in the balls.

 

[Luke]

console gaming getting bigger doesn't mean PC gaming will get replaced.

I never said it did.

 

[Druid]

I don't know what is with some of you guys. I think cross-platform gaming is a much better surprise than a duke nukem game. If they do it right, it will be amazing.

 

[overlord20]

After looking into it more. No cross platform gaming. "Steam Support" includes patching and Steam Cloud and only on the PS3. Fails even more then I thought.

 

[james.wired]

Yep Valve loses E3. I hear you Luke...an Xbox 360 is definitely not a bad thing to have either..