July 15, 2006

Intel Killing PC Gaming

The internet is aflame with debate over Mark Rein of Epic Software saying Intel is killing off PC gaming. I don't think you really can blame Intel for his. Most people just need basic 2D graphics to do web surfing, watching movies, and email.

Gamers really can get decent performance with a cheap $100 add-on graphics card too. Albeit you can't play the latest greatest eye candy shooters at 60 frames per second. The main problem is I think piracy. Games simply don't sell that much on PCs as Bit Torrents and cracks are so freely available. Console piracy is much less widespread. Also there is this small thing called World of Warcraft which is sucking literally billions of dollars out of PC gamer's pockets and the time sink too. Discuss [Thanks stupot42]