Welcome to PC Gaming Alliance
This evening represenitives from Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Dell/Alienware, Nvidia, Acer, Activision, Epic and Razer held a joint Press conference at the W Hotel in San Francisco to announce the PC Gaming Alliance.
PC Gaming is back, the consoles have had a good run over the past several years, but now thanks to advances in graphics and microprocessors PC performance is exceeding all expectations. The GDC is on this week and most of the developers here are writing for the PC platform.
The Games publishers in attendance were bemoaning about all the billions of dollars of revenue taken by Pirates every year, so I asked them when will we see the end of shrink-wrapped games? They went on about how BestBuy and Wal-Mart bring them tones of money, so shrink-wrapped games will continue. So I asked him; you have heard of the Internet? If Games publishers offered us downloads on their sites and charged half as much for a game they could conceivably sell three times as many. He didn't do the math.....
PC Gaming Alliance will also provide guidelines to simplify hardware specifications and speed the introduction of new technologies, as well as improve Consumer PC Gaming Experience by working with developers and publishers and PCGA members to maximize the PC gaming experience in all ways possible.