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Comment by pjmlp

8 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  1 hour 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  23 minutes 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  1 hour 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!