PC gaming is dying. Again.

Once every 6-12 months, someone, somewhere, writes an article about how PC gaming is dying. So quite why the author of this piece seems to think he's so special with this proclaimation I've no idea. He also believes that enjoying a game console means you have the IQ of a glass of water… Let me repeat: To all you console owners, which includes a good chunk of us here at Joystiq, including myself, Mr. Anthony R. Brock believes we all have the IQ of a glass of water because we enjoy consoles. Ironically, he condemns Electronic Arts (and, somewhat bafflingly, Eidos), a company who, if I stuck with the PC, I'd HAVE to buy baseball games from, whereas, as a PS2 owner, I have a choice.

I remember reading much the same arguments in PC magazines before the turn of the millenium, about how PC gaming was on it's last legs, consoles would own all… And yet, here we still are. The author also leaves one huge, gaping hole in his argument. The fact that when designing a PC game, developers have to contend with a million different hardware and software configurations. Whereas with designing for the console, they can design a game, boot it, and if it works on their test machine, they know that it will work on every machine out there.

So, is it a scathing critique of the PC gaming industry? Or elitist, arrogant posturing from someone who thinks that, just because they game on a PC, they're better than you? You decide.