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Tablets can't do serious gaming.

by hvs 15y ago

swombat 15y ago
99% of people don't give a toss about serious gaming. The iPad has become the primary gaming device for me - I rarely ever play video games elsewhere.
- ugh 15y ago
  Also, gaming consoles exist. A PC was never necessary for serious gaming.
  - aaronblohowiak 15y ago
    untrue, but it was more than ten years ago...
    - ugh 15y ago
      Why is that? You will have to explain your odd view a bit more, I fear. I can understand that some people prefer PC gaming for one reason or another but I think I’m quite correct in guessing that those people are a tiny minority – it’s a niche.
      - aaronblohowiak 15y ago
        there was a brief window when online 3d gaming was first taking off and none of the major consoles supported it in a good way -- the only game in town for hardcore gaming was the PC. Sure, the dreamcast might have been able to do it, but everybody was using gamespy to connect to their favorite servers.
cryptoz 15y ago
So? "Serious gaming" fits nicely with the desktop niche I just described. Plenty of people will continue to buy desktops for just that reason - that's the only device that'll do what they need. My point is that soon none of those desktop needs will be mainstream. Also, quad core tablets will be out in the next year or two. What on earth makes you think they won't have serious games?
mambodog 15y ago
Nah, but games consoles can.
- hvs 15y ago
  Not as well as a PC. PC gaming and console gaming are two totally different worlds
vaksel 15y ago
for serious gaming they can go with consoles...better than going with PC anyways, since with gaming those gets obsolete a lot faster. If you don't need to do gaming on PC, you can change the PC once every 5 years. But if you do, you'd have to do that twice as often.
- jokermatt999 15y ago
  Actually, a cutting edge PC isn't really all that necessary for gaming nowadays. Since a large portion of games are cross-platform between 360/PS3 and the PC, you just need a PC as good as one of those. I spent less than a $1000 (including monitor, kb, 1TB HD, etc) on a decent PC about 2.5 years ago, and it's still able to run most everything I run into on max settings. Until we see a new generation of consoles, or something like another Crysis, you really don't need to upgrade your PC for gaming. Besides, some of us prefer keyboard/mouse and modding ability.

Tablets can't do serious gaming.

by hvs 15y ago

Tablets can't do serious gaming.

99% of people don't give a toss about serious gaming. The iPad has become the primary gaming device for me - I rarely ever play video games elsewhere.

ugh 15y ago
Also, gaming consoles exist. A PC was never necessary for serious gaming.
- aaronblohowiak 15y ago
  untrue, but it was more than ten years ago...
  - ugh 15y ago
    Why is that? You will have to explain your odd view a bit more, I fear. I can understand that some people prefer PC gaming for one reason or another but I think I’m quite correct in guessing that those people are a tiny minority – it’s a niche.
    - aaronblohowiak 15y ago
      there was a brief window when online 3d gaming was first taking off and none of the major consoles supported it in a good way -- the only game in town for hardcore gaming was the PC. Sure, the dreamcast might have been able to do it, but everybody was using gamespy to connect to their favorite servers.

cryptoz 15y ago

So? "Serious gaming" fits nicely with the desktop niche I just described. Plenty of people will continue to buy desktops for just that reason - that's the only device that'll do what they need. My point is that soon none of those desktop needs will be mainstream. Also, quad core tablets will be out in the next year or two. What on earth makes you think they won't have serious games?

mambodog 15y ago

Nah, but games consoles can.

hvs 15y ago
Not as well as a PC. PC gaming and console gaming are two totally different worlds

vaksel 15y ago

for serious gaming they can go with consoles...better than going with PC anyways, since with gaming those gets obsolete a lot faster. If you don't need to do gaming on PC, you can change the PC once every 5 years. But if you do, you'd have to do that twice as often.

jokermatt999 15y ago
Actually, a cutting edge PC isn't really all that necessary for gaming nowadays. Since a large portion of games are cross-platform between 360/PS3 and the PC, you just need a PC as good as one of those. I spent less than a $1000 (including monitor, kb, 1TB HD, etc) on a decent PC about 2.5 years ago, and it's still able to run most everything I run into on max settings. Until we see a new generation of consoles, or something like another Crysis, you really don't need to upgrade your PC for gaming. Besides, some of us prefer keyboard/mouse and modding ability.