Heard someone at a LAN party say PC gaming is dying and I had to laugh

I was at a small LAN party last Saturday (about 12 people) and this guy in his 50s started going on about how consoles are taking over and PC gaming is on its last legs. He pointed to stuff like no new big exclusives and rising GPU prices over the last 2 years. But I looked around the room and saw 8 different rigs all running different games from indie titles to Call of Duty without any issues. The variety and backwards compatibility are what keep it alive for me, not just hype around new releases. Has anyone else heard this kind of take from older gamers who maybe stopped building their own machines?

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ruby2905d ago

Read somewhere that Steam just hit another record for concurrent users, so that guy was talking out his ass.

simon3785d ago

Steam just hit another record for concurrent users" - yeah that actually got me to look it up. I used to think PC gaming was slowly dying too, ngl. Like I'd see all these console numbers and think Steam was on the way out. But those concurrent user records are real, and they keep getting higher every few months. I was totally wrong about that. Now I just figure the guy was repeating some old news he half remembered or something.

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