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Comment by pjmlp

9 hours ago

I belong to the 8 and 16 bit home computers generation, which grew along those consoles, yet for those on my circle consoles weren't special, home computers were.

Hence why I find funny the remarks of "PC gaming" is growing, for my crowd it was always there since the 1990's.

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wing-_-nuts  2 hours ago

>I find funny the remarks of "PC gaming" is growing

If anything, with current prices, it's dying. I don't say this as a 'pc v console' flame. I'm saying that if you want your hobby to be widespread, sustainable and growing it needs to be accessible to a broke highschooler. PC gaming might be affordable to us tech workers, but it isn't to them, and that's a problem. Hell even console gaming has become very expensive in the last couple years. A ps5 is $500, which is reasonable for what you get, but the $70 games and $80 / yr PSN sub adds up.

  • pjmlp  2 hours ago

    Not really, because as anyone old enough to have played games with 48 KB, that were quite additive, the gameplay is what matters, not GB for textures.

pezezin  3 hours ago

I am a bit younger (my first PC was a 486), but much like you I and most of my friends grew up with PCs. My happiest memories are endless evenings playing Counter Strike and Diablo 2 at Internet cafés.

So yeah, PC gaming is growing... back home in Europe it has always been the number one platform!