 Originally Posted by Tricky
I used to be a console gamer up until the end of the PS2 era, but im not interested in the current generation, maybe my age, I dunno, & the PC is far from dead as a gaming platform anyway!
Indeed, the PC is far from dead as a gaming platform.
Besides, all these consoles games are made on PCs. 
There does need to be a proper handling of the PC market though when it comes to all-platform titles. This pish about shafting PC releases until later in the year, or providing a shitty port (like what happened with GTA IV - which I have on Xbox360).
I do most of my gaming now on Xbox360, my first console since my Mega Drive 2 actually - in those years inbetween I played PC games, but did play console titles at friend's houses on occasion. It was only when my rig on which I gamed at the time couldn't keep up (and was beyond updating to the required level), that I got myself an Xbox360 to do my gaming on - no worry about upgrades, and I was open to a whole array of titles that are never put on to PC.
However, I then got myself a brand spanking new beastly Quad Core (for my editing work), so naturally I was going to get a bit of gaming out of it too - in the past year I've played Crysis, STALKER Clear Sky, and Fallout 3 on it - as well as the Brotherhood of Steel add-on, and I'm currently on a break from Point Lookout (because GTA Episodes from Liberty City turned up yesterday a day before release  ).
PC gaming ain't dead, it's just disrespected a lot, and there's no out-right winner. Each format has their own set of positives and negatives, and the big thing going for PC right now is the likes of World of Warcraft.
I think the key to getting more PC gamers is providing games that can be played on a wide variety of rigs, not just shit-hot ones, and ones which provide a wide-open playing experience for a wide array of gamers.
Ooh, The Sims, that's another one for PC which is an absolute monster, and another reason PC gaming is going nowhere. Like I said - it's just disrespected a lot as a format, and that should change.
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Aye, there is a lot of hype and excitement around MW2, but there was a boatload around MW1. More for this as we all know how awesome MW1 was, but really, just ignore it and you'll be fine - I've been ignoring the hype mostly. I've been watching trailers and hearing bits of this and that, and personally been looking forward to it, but apart from that I've not been curled up in a corner like a jizz-covered junkie trying to scrape together enough cash to get a fix.
I think there has been some ego-waving from IW, which is disappointing, but I think there's been a lot more from the publisher - Activision, right? The suits gouging the market for as much money as possible.
Fortunately I pre-ordered my MW2 before the price-hike after they saw how many pre-orders they were getting.
As such though, it is in their extreme interest to provide a GOOD game. They'd be absolute morons not to with such hype, anticipation, and pre-orders heaped on their shoulders.
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