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Hmmm, you are right... maybe I shouldn't have said "maxed out" but "mostly acceptable". I think that "maxed out" will be a niche market, specially since the com
by pvarangot 15y ago
Hmmm, you are right... maybe I shouldn't have said "maxed out" but "mostly acceptable". I think that "maxed out" will be a niche market, specially since the computers able to really max out games are already niche, and PCs in general are loosing market share. I'm not implying its a trivial engineering problem, just a problem Intel will be able to solve in one/two years and deliver processors for a small box you plug into your TV and happily game without investing money and real estate space into a PC.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoNiche? http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/03/PCGA-2010.jpg http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/03/PCGA-2010.jpg
- sciurus 15y agoMany people play games on computers, true. I think pvarangot's contention is that most of them don't need high-ends graphics cards to do so.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoI should have mentioned, that chart is for sales in 2011. Some of that is low graphics gaming, but people aren't spending $18.6 billion on bejeweled (maybe on Farmville though). If you take just the segment of the market that is "high-end graphics gaming" then it's still a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Why would a self-sustaining industry of that size just spontaneously go away?