• 17Apr 09

  Thoughts on post platform choice anxiety.

  I saw a video on YouTube talking about the platform war, he pretty much summed it up as being people with post purchase anxiety trying to justify that they made the correct purchase decision. Whether or not that is the case I didn't attempt to consider, what I thought about was how PC gaming fit into that picture of the system wars.

  You know what? It doesn't fit.

  If you're a informed rig builder the closet thing you get to post purchase anxiety is if you upgraded at the right time, outside of that the only choice concerns is what games to play. There is no worries about game selection because everything you could play before changing your hardware still works, only better. PC gaming has a massive game library spanning decades, most of it doesn't need special backwards compatibility care; and for the ones that do there is software and services available to you.

  I'm not concerned about getting value out of my hardware purchases because every component I use for gaming will also improve the performance of my day to day tasks. Even GPUs have a noteworthy impact on my day to day performance such as Vista 3D interface acceleration, Folding@Home GPU performance, DVD & Blu-ray hardware acceleration and even GPU accelerated transcoding when I'm converting something for my media player or YouTube.

  So when you think about it PC gamers are in a pretty comfortable position regarding platform choices. Our game selection doesn't get reset every generation, our gaming orientated hardware purchases have multiple day to day applications and we are not reliant on a company like Sony or Microsoft to make decisions on our behalf on what we can do with our PC.

  It makes you wonder why PC gaming is even in the platform war, it just keeps doing its thing regardless of who wins or loses the gaming platform war each generation.

  • Posted Apr 17, 2009 8:00 pm GMT
  • Category: Games
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