Jon Peddie Research Predicts that 20 million PC gamer will move towards console gaming by 2022

I moved from consoles because I felt closed in, was unable to tweak my settings and always ran into trouble, but hey, who needs 144hz when we can play platformers in 8K with cinematic 24 fps...

 

Streaming isn't happening, forget about it. Nobody is going to be running games server side in a few years when an iPhone can already run fortnite at 60 fps today. A device designed just for gaming will eventually seem very pointless, it will be consoles that go away eventually. Even 8k isn't happening unless they somehow force people into it, people are barely sold on 4k. The success of the switch should be telling people something, but I guess its not.

 

Choice of peripherals is key to many gamers, even those with more entry level PC hardware. It isn't all about the graphics, even if consoles managed to reach visual parity with all but the highest end gaming rigs it wouldn't matter one bit if I couldn't use a keyboard and mouse to play an FPS or RTS etc. Consoles are also fairly limited devices anyway, a PC has added value in what else it can do, a console is limited to gaming and basic media functionality.

 

Why do all these "analysts" have such a hard-on for PC to die? Read it every couple of weeks, for 30 years. PC is stronger now than it was a decade ago. Consoles are limiting. They are not open, you're locked into an ecosystem. PC avoids most of that and will always have that over consoles. I also find it comical that someone predicts other people's choices they haven't even made yet, when the options aren't even available for them to choose..but that's a whole other topic.

PC, the system where backward compatibility is never an issue. Nor do you need to re-purchase all your old purchases. You have multiple stores to give you options (though there's a thread on here complaining about that lol) and you can upgrade the hardware. You can stream a show and read a website, alt tab back into a game and shoot out an email.

Consoles are basic and usually sell to basic users.

 

Why is it that everyone thinks you have to be exclusive? I know plenty of people who regularly game on multiple competing platforms. I think it's totally reasonable to predict that 20 million PC gamers will get a console, but that doesn't AT ALL imply that they will be ditching their PCs.

Peddie needs to stop skewing the results to favor his agenda.

 

I so agree with the console controllers. Once I went to PC gaming with the mouse and keyboard I couldn't stand using a game controller. It's too slow. Most games keyboard & mouse is the way.

 

Too slow? If you're using it via Bluetooth then maybe that could be the problem. Wired or RF is the way to go if you care about latency.

 

I think he means its to slow to do a 360 no scope not actual input latency.

I can snap 90 degrees in CS to someones head with an extremely rapid hand movement - on a controller you're waiting like half a second for the screen to turn.

 

Yep!

 

I must be doing something wrong my PC work perfect on my big screen TV when I am sitting on my couch.
No need ever for a console.

 

This is completely wrong. Consoles have been consistently growing in power and always either on par with PC's or behind them, not to mention that mouse and/or keyboard on consoles has always existed in one way or another, but interest in that was never big enough. Not to mention that older consoles had vastly different architectures that specialized on games specific demands, and as such could get away with inferior hardware that could output impressive results, making the eventual gaps much shorter.

Check this article, it shows how consoles power growth has been linear in a number of ways:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013...days-consoles-keep-up-with-historical-trends/

Consoles advantages over PC lies on lower cost per performance and ease of use - that hasn't changed and probably won't any time soon.

Controllers are definitely inferior in FPS's, any edge case exists due to aim-assist on controllers and/or poor implementation of mouse and keyboard. Though other types of games are different, I agree.

Frankly, I though this "research" was so out of touch with the industry that I could safely say that exactly the opposite of what was predicted will happen.

 

What, those people you know have time to play consoles while every month or so new game and/or new Windows update and/or new drivers are released and every PC user should start new journey of nightmar... er... of joy to tweak-configure-mod-troubleshoot?

 

I don't understand what you're getting at. Yes, some of these people do actually have the time to alternate between platforms. Some might go without turning on a system for weeks at a time, but once an exclusive or a great deal is available on a particular system, they'll fire up that system. Besides, wouldn't updates be all the more reason to play on another platform, so you can still play a game while you wait for the updates to finish?

 

I was merely hinting a fun surrounding the PC games - configuring, tweaking, modding, troubleshooting, which is absent in consoles.

 

you misunderstand, he means the hardware is very similar to pc now, infact they are pretty much interchangable, the only thing that separates pc from console now, is a bit of software. microsoft makes the distinction even less clear with their windows store cross platform support.
gone are the times of weird proprietary architectures

nothing to do with performance, at all.

 

Compatibility gets dicey when you go far enough back, there are almost always workarounds and fixes. You also don't need to purchase new peripherals every time you get new hardware.

 

Don't play shooters on console. I like consoles though for the 3rd person adventure games and console exclusives can push the boundaries due to being locked on hardware. Show me a game that looked as good and played as good as Infamous Second Son on a slow mobile CPU with a 7650 for a graphics card.