Comments on rahulsood: Games for your Mom...

I for instance am a bit disappointed by your decis...

2008-04-02T08:03:00.000-07:00

I for instance am a bit disappointed by your decision not to join the PCGA. If you have a look around the gamer sites and forums, it is obvious that consoles have the largest mindshare by far.

Console industry regularly outputs info on sold units and software, while I can't say the same about gaming PCs or PC games. For the average Joe, this leaves the impression taht gaming and PCs have little, if anything, in common.

And then PC enthusiasts like me have to argue with them based on mostly good belief and some very hard to find facts.

Couldn't you have made it easier for us to spread the good word?

Ahti

Riddle me this... how is Voodoo/HP going to positi...

2008-03-23T11:32:00.000-07:00

Riddle me this... how is Voodoo/HP going to position itself from a HARDWARE perspective re: PC gaming? Yes PCs account for such a huge portion of computing devices that the "death" of PC gaming is highly unlikely from a general POV but what about Voodoo's core market, the so-called "hard core" gamer? Voodoo makes ultra-high-performance PCs for people that require major horsepower... but let's look how that market is being pinched:

1) Low to mid range PCs have become substantially more powerful - now that many graphics intensive tasks can be performed on more general purpose PCs (or, heaven forbid, a Mac), there are fewer reasons to purchase high-performing, wallet-raping PC monsters;

2) Consoles are snatching the very games that made high-performance computers necessary - Does CoD4 look twice as good on a PC? That's arguable. But are you willing to spend TWICE as much TWICE AS OFTEN to play it? There's the rub.

What I really want to know is how will VOODOO position itself for the future? How will Voodoo or any of the other high-powered brands remain relevant? PC gaming may well fix the misperceptions of a dying PC gaming market but what relevance will ultra-high-performing PCs have in the new eco-system? The more I've examined the issue, I'm beginning to think that it isn't "PC gaming" that is dying, it's that the high-end PCs and their builders who have driven the market for so long are becoming less relevant. How will these companies adapt and continue to be the flag bearers of PC gaming?

The VoodooPC brand has been synonymous with PC gaming for awhile now, but what is its place in a market where raw horsepower isn't as important as it used to be? In my opinion, devices like the Novint Falcon provide important clues. The high-performing PCs of the past made the virtual world look more like the real world... now it's time to get the virtual world to start ACTING like the real world. While there is still much more that can be done re: graphics, high-performance PC gaming in the future will include drastic improvements in physics and interactivity.

At least that's how I see it.

"we don’t believe that PC gaming is in trouble"Mar...

2008-03-22T23:09:00.000-07:00

"we don’t believe that PC gaming is in trouble"

Marketshare is considerably towards laptops, compaq's offering is the x3100, hp's offerings are the 8400m and the 8600m gs on the laptop segment.

You may be the VP of hp, and I may be a mere college student, but honestly, all I see my friends playing on PC is WoW and Orange Box, and honestly playing barely any of that. All of what I see is Rockband on 360, Various Wii games, and Facebook.