Microsoft Says PC Games Are Doomed!

[dogscoff]

PC games won't ever go away. How do you think the ppl that code for the consoles learn their craft? By coding games on non-console platforms, notably the PC. You can't learn the art of game design/ coding without practise, and you can't practise coding on a phongin' playstation because you can't *code* for the playstation unless you happen to work for a games company with all the tools to port the code over, but you can't work for a games company until you've learned the art of game design/ coding...

So they start by coding simple little games (pacman, tetris) as excercises on their PCs when they're spotty teenagers, and then gradually work their way up and up through various freeware and shareware projects until they have all the complex knowledge needed to get a job coding a hit 3D FPS for the Xbox. For example, take a look at the evolution of Malfador.

This assures that the home computer market will always have a mid-level game scene, at the very least.

And nethack ain't going nowhere, neither. It's been around for twenty years, it will still be there when the gamecube is just another dusty exhibit in some museum.

The divot at M$ who made that stupid statement knows this too, they are just trying to scare up some sales for the Xbox.