The video game industry has seen enormous growth in the past 2 years. Statista projected revenue to reach $155 million (R2.4 billion) this year and $225 million (R4 billion) by 2025. It’s crazy to think that all of that came about within the last 50 years or so.
From the first home console, the seldom heard-of Magnavox, through Atari’s VCS, Nintendo’s NES, Sony’s PlayStation, and, of course, home computers. It is the latter platform, the PC, that just won the “coveted” Golden Joystick Award for ‘Ultimate Hardware of All Time’. Of course it did.
While there has, is, and will always be a place for console gaming, it wouldn’t be possible without computers. And it’s only the current generation of consoles that are coming close to providing the same level of performance a PC can manage.
A PC is the best console
Valve co-founder and president Gade Newell accepted the award on behalf of PC gamers around the world, which made everyone a little happier. In his rather short acceptance speech, Newell explained why the award was, at the very least, a little valid.
“Gamers and developers have benefited enormously from the relentless innovation in PC gaming hardware.”
And that’s very hard to argue against. Sure, there are solid points in favour of consoles, like generally being much cheaper than a PC setup or more welcoming for newcomers, but those are slowly eroding away. The days of having to edit a game’s .ini file or running it in compatibility mode are, for the most part, in the rearview mirror.
So congratulations to PC gamers, we guess?
Source: PC Gamer