Turns out, you just aren’t smart enough to game on the PC
At least, that’s what AMD thinks. Fucking tools.
This is supposed to lead to a renewal of PC gaming huh? A sticker? A tag that translates into “hey, I’m amongst the most expensive computers on the market!”? The only thing that’ll revive the general PC games market are good games. Not just pretty games, but good ones that run on low to moderate hardware. Really, companies should also cut stores out of the chain too, and switch to an all online distribution system.
Don’t start bitching about “what if I don’t have the internet?!” because these are games, you see, not production server solutions that might have a need to be sequestered. If you’re too poor to get the internet, maybe you should skip that game too, and if you don’t want the internet, chances are good that you aren’t in the gaming demographic. Know what I mean?
Why all online though? Primarily to skip the cost of pumping out and distributing physical media. Hey, it’s even eco-friendlier! There’s also user convenience, cross marketing of other products, and so on to consider. A client/account based setup would work well, ala Steam, and could make use of bit torrent transparently within the client, offloading bandwidth. Steam may even do that, but honestly I don’t know. Point is, it’s a win all the way around as far as I can see.
Some games for linux would also be good. It’s not like the tools aren’t there.