PC Gaming's Future Evolution

Dr. Eggman writes "1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel from last week entitled PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the 'death' of PC games, this panel suggested that the death is of PC games as we know them - PC gaming will evolve. They believe the future of gaming on the PC lies in strengths like persistent-world environments; not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control."

One word

[Joe The Dragon]

MODS!

DirectX 10

[MikeTheMan]

As I see it, right now the biggest threat to PC games is DirectX 10. If developers want to use the new features of DirectX 10, then they completely exclude the whole segment of the market that doesn't have Vista yet (or never will). So instead, they develop for the next-gen consoles that have all the new features and no worry of excluding half the platform's user base. The sad thing is, Microsoft wins either way.