Never. Both need each other. The PC as an easy and cheap platform for newcomers to utilize and consoles because PC alone wouldn`t sustain the industry. There are without a doubt some PC games that sell great, but overall PC alone wouldn`t be enough for all those developer studios that exist now.

Loved the show, keep up the great work Pachter!

Next month people will claim that PC gaming is dead again. It kinda changes every now and then. If all those people were to be believed gaming would have died a long time ago.

It was the opposite at the beginning of last gen. SMFH

*Sigh*...... This coming from Pach who time & time again year after year has claimed that PC's & PC gaming will become extinct due to tablets & piracy etc..

Now he wants a company to come out a specifically design & manufacture a brand new device to game on PC's just on your TV instead.

#NOBRAINER

I actually like the guy but boy does he speak some amount of shit!

If its not when will iPhone kills console its PC, dear god why do people believe this will happen look here Patcher. PC is for the gaming community who likes to mod their games and or also like something to play games and use to work, console gaming is for the living room where people want to play games and then watch a movie and mobile gaming is for people who want to play on the subway train or on a bus or during classes.

So why patcher would anyone one of them kill each other when all 3 rule their own domain.

Pc is becoming less relevant as tablets and phones evolve. Pcs will never rule the living room. Patcher, just go away.

PC gaming will stay as a home based tool for all sorts of activities/work with max performance.

I personally do enjoy the concept of consoles but I also see that they dont need to exist if and only if a tablet can beat it. Then we can just carry around our tablet/game-console to our friends and play there etc etc the possibilities are amazing to think of.

So yea console atm do provide a reason to exist only till the time comes when a tablet beats its performance and flexibilty. Which I think is coming up soon unfortunately.

In he end there will be a mobile device which will act as a multi purpose tool for gaming, work etc etc and will exist along with a very high end pc whose function is exactly that (do what other devices cant do)

SO yea basically the future= Tiny device+PC coexisting together.

Gaming is gaming period!
P.C,console,portable,mobile phone,tablets even the joystick with the av cables.
all of these are part of the video game industry.
one is not killing of the other,if anything it's helping gaming reach a bigger crowd

there are a lot of bright gamers but a lot of the times we are blinded stupidity of brand loyalty.

^^^^^^^^^ * Please see my first Post * ^^^^^^^

I had to write a touchy feel good post first and I meant it but now............

The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race......

is still on it's mission to DESTROY all those who are FOOLISH enough to stand in it's path of DOMINATION!

Muha hah ha hah ha

Consoles LMAO what a crying tragedy they are.
First they were ACTUALLY consoles with there custom built Motorola CPU's and Z80 processors, NO Internet No Disc Local Co-op only gameplay with codes you had to write down to save your Game.

Now look at them: x86 64 bit this USB that Online this Digital Download that Cloud based Servers this F2P that

For something that is so Beloved and better than a PC, consoles TODAY sure the HELL ACT like PC's. What's next hardware upgrades (Oh wait swapping HDD in PS3 already) LOL

"Can you feel it Mr. Anderson, can you see where I'm going with this"

While you ALL laughed at the PC's so called "Imminent DEATH" and I mean EVERYONE in the Gaming industry laughed, the PC was the one who sacrificed itself for a few years ONLY to be REBORN and move the ENTIRE Gaming Industry FORWARD. Not just PC gaming But move the ENTIRE GOT DAM Industry FORWARD!

Indie friendly, User Created Content, Digital Distribution, Self Publishing, Crowd Funding, Mods, eSports, Sponsorships, Subscription based gaming, F2P Gaming, expanding into Communist countries, Killing OFF Microsoft's Death Grip on gaming, Open Source Aps, putting together 250 million ONline Gamers, Global network of Dedicated Servers, etc. ALL for the GLORY of EVERYONE who loves games.

and what did PC Gaming receive for a thank you? HATRED!

Publishers turned their BACKS on a Platform that was the first to enter the Digital World but instead of offering insight to solve Piracy they just ridiculed the whole Platform as "owned by a bunch of Thieves and Keyboard Nerds living in their moms basement"

So with Only DEDICATED and Brilliant PC Exclusive Devs left to right the ship PC Gaming has returned with a VENGEANCE and Tools to hand down to consoles and keep OUR Glorious Gaming Industry Alive and Strong unlike when CONSOLES ran it into the ground back in the 1980's.

Yes my friends Consoles did at one time RUN the Gaming world and they ran it RIGHT into the friggin GROUND.

So yes I'm a PC Elitist Jerk because I was one of the millions of Gamers who saw the Glory of the PC and kept on buying PC Games off a self in the Janitors Closet, kept on posting advice in threads on improvements, and kept on sitting alone in a dark room on a 56k dial-up connection because myself and Million of others somehow Knew that this PC Gaming thing was good, it was Ours and it was customizable and it was OPEN to all.

So now I just sit back and laugh when I hear "PC Gaming will never be in the Living room".

I laugh because the first wide/flat screen TV's came with VGA plugs and DVI plugs thus FORCING CONSOLES to switch plugs (from RCA to now DVI/hdmi)because PC's were far ahead into HD, reminds me that TV manufactures always wanted PC's in the Living room.......

and now they are there by way of PC's or your console (if you really still want to call it a console) or your SMart Phone or Internet ready TV's.

So Next Gen when MS/Sony stop making Hardware and just use a Tablet to Digitally download games or stream games to whatever device then the NON believers will finally

witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station! --- oh wait wrong sentence

Recognize the Power of the PC and it's many uses especially as PC Power is doubling so fast that Next Gen consoles will be out Powered by Tablets a year after they release (Nvidia is HELL BENT on this one, sorry folks but no one can stop this).

So in the end the PC was first and the PC shall be last but Console gaming will live on through the power of Technology by way of a PC or tablet or smartphone but NOTHING will ever replace 1000 WATTS and $2000 dollars of bleeding edge hardware purring at your feet.

Because that is FREEDOM, freedom to GAME how you want to and in the end the Industry realizing and accepting new tech and open source APS keeps the ENTIRE GAMING INDUSTRY HAPPY.

Happy Gaming to all.

Yeah, that's not how it works. Pachter is never right about anything that isn't blatantly obvious that everyone has been saying for months. It's like they pay him to be click bait.

PC might have better hardware/graphics than consoles, but...

So what?

Does that change the fact that I would rather lean back on my couch with a controller than lean forward in a chair with a mouse and keyboard?

PC gaming is not a linear "upgraded experience from consoles". There are advantages and disadvantages. Leaning forward a foot away from a monitor is a lot less comfortable than a console couch setup.

PC's will never kill consoles. If anything consoles might help finally kill PC's. It's not worth the money anymore to buy much of a computer. You can use a tablet for most things. Maybe they should just bring out real keyboards and mice for consoles along with programs like word processors. The PC will be dead eventually. Even Microsoft has seen that fact.

oh great more words from prophet patcher.

pc has to many different configurations and specs, it will never be a threat to consoles when consoles only have 1 set of hardware, easier to develop for then the thousands of different pc setups plus all of the ppl still using old pcs with windows xp and before, high end pcs are in the minority and will never be mainstream

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!