A take on today’s PC gaming

From most part of my life, I have been gaming. I just started playing super Mario when I was just 3 years old. It was great and then on, I always had a passion for gaming.

3 years ago, the PC gaming scene I knew was great, everything is all balanced out from console to pc gaming. Lately there has been a decline on most games that are out on the market. Triple A titles are nowhere to be seen. Here is my take on maybe how pc gaming went sour lately.

Vista

• The OS made by Microsoft was really a leap ahead of technology; give away great eye candies and making a more secure environment. All these great stuff choked systems, especially machines built for XP. But still, even if you have Uber great hardware, Vista is still a problem.
  My take on this is hardware that are optimized for vista will be there in a year for casual gaming rigs. It may take a while but everybody will move along the same way as windows98 to XP transition.

Graphics Cards

• For the past year, video cards have been churning out day in day out. Most of the time, usually when you buy a next generation of cards would let you enjoy more than 2 times its predecessors’ power. But in this case, it doesn't deliver. The 8800gt is hands down the best bang for the buck gaming card. But look at the 9 series of video cards can't even double its performance. Nvidia now resorted back to using dual chips on a single PCB and yet came short. These cards are way pricey mind you.
• The next line of graphics cards on the horizon is still suffering as the GTX 280 is still rumored to have bad price to performance ratio. It will have improvements but i still doubt a casual gamer can afford to buy a video card that can run Crysis at a solid 60 frames per second.

Game Devs

• Lately, Crysis has been one of the cheesiest titles that hit the pc. It had a game engine that grinds the newest video cards to its already bleeding knees. Ubisoft has done a great job but they forgot one thing, it was only a tech demo. Let me explain first, it is a complete game but nothing can run it well on the day it was released. Only rich kids can play it great. I have seen tests that even quad 9800gx2 can't even play 60 well on the highest resolution, that’s 800 bucks times four, equaling 3.2 grand of solid waste of money.
  
  The future of PC gaming is still great. But lately, it has been just nothing. As hardware getting only fabrication process changes like 65 to 45 nanometer chips, yet nothing was revolutionary up to this point. I'm looking forward to new technology for hardware that can revive the murky waters of pc gaming.

For now, the best alternative is to play on consoles. They currently have almost all the latest hits that came from the pc from Half-life 2 episodic content, Bioshock, Command and Conquer 3, Call of Duty series, Battlefield series and so on...

The pc may have been sick as of now; it can also be rescued eventually. But with the way developers are going multiplatform, the pc will get stuck with no exclusives and nobody seems to mind.