I call BS on this until Microsoft ACTUALLY has something to show for PC gaming. It always seems like when they mention "PC gaming" it's always something to harp about on DirectX improvements and then ultimately the Xbox One, which technically speaking is a gaming PC.

If they would only bring over the gaming content from the Xbox One over to the PC....

Hi there

As one who has ZERO interest in gaming I hope they leave all that stuff where it belongs -- on the XBOX !!.

The only time I see or hear about Computer games is that they are always about killing things, destroying planets etc and in general always about fighting, causing total destruction and bringing out the WORST aspects of what little humanity we have left these days.

Rarely if ever do you see decent stuff about how to CREATE a better planet or environment. - Maybe some of the intellect that goes into devising ever better methods of conquering your opponents would be better used in devising SENSIBLE achievable strategies for fixing things like poverty, global warming etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

As one who has ZERO interest in gaming I hope they leave all that stuff where it belongs -- on the XBOX !!.

The only time I see or hear about Computer games is that they are always about killing things, destroying planets etc and in general always about fighting, causing total destruction and bringing out the WORST aspects of what little humanity we have left these days.

Rarely if ever do you see decent stuff about how to CREATE a better planet or environment. - Maybe some of the intellect that goes into devising ever better methods of conquering your opponents would be better used in devising SENSIBLE achievable strategies for fixing things like poverty, global warming etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo

And as a person who has PLENTY of interest and DOES play games on my computer, I'm glad to hear about this.

Yes, I beat up things playing Street Fighter IV, blow up things playing Harpoon (a modern naval combat simulator), but I also play Myst Online, Trainz Simulator and I'm very active in Second Life, all about as non-violent as you can get.

I think you need to be a bit more careful with your gross generalizations, somebody is libel to tell you what you can do with them.

Wenda said:

Sometimes they do, and it's invariably an inferior product which in no way stretches a halfway-decent PC. And/or they're aimed at kids/teens...


Wenda.

Most mid-range PCs today are several steps past gaming consoles in power. At one time, dedicated gaming boxes were far superior to PCs, but then game boxes have kinda languished for a long time as PC kept advancing.

The stuff ported to PCs isn't an inferior product, its that your PC is that far ahead of what a gaming box can handle.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

As one who has ZERO interest in gaming I hope they leave all that stuff where it belongs -- on the XBOX !!.

The only time I see or hear about Computer games is that they are always about killing things, destroying planets etc and in general always about fighting, causing total destruction and bringing out the WORST aspects of what little humanity we have left these days.

Rarely if ever do you see decent stuff about how to CREATE a better planet or environment. - Maybe some of the intellect that goes into devising ever better methods of conquering your opponents would be better used in devising SENSIBLE achievable strategies for fixing things like poverty, global warming etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo

The thing with console vs. PC gaming is that there is a wider breadth of genres for the PC than the console. Things like role playing games, simulators, sandbox gaming, and even games that require a decent amount of cognitive thought to figure out are on the PC. Console gaming like the PS4 and Xbox One are more blow things up and kill the enemy. That's what sells for the console. On the PC, it's everything else. MineCraft, WoW, Sims, Amnesia, Star Wars, Mario, racing simulator games; gaming is at a higher level of quality than the console basically.

Wenda said:

Sometimes they do, and it's invariably an inferior product which in no way stretches a halfway-decent PC. And/or they're aimed at kids/teens...


Wenda.

What I don't want to keep seeing is their "PC gaming" push that entails things like little Xbox Live arcade games that are targeted to run on Windows Phones, tablets, and then maybe the Xbox. It's not actual PC gaming like the games hosted on Steam that are just uber way ahead of console gaming.

But the fact nowadays the Xbox One is essentially a low to mid range AMD gaming rig, everyone who is a PC gamer could theoretically run Xbox One game titles as they're not graphically limited on their systems.