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February 14, 2008

PC Gaming Alliance on Tap for Next Week?

By Mark Hachman

Is PC gaming doomed? If you've been a gamer for some time, you've either talked about it, debated it, argued it, fought over it, or accepted it. Well, some haven't. According to the The Mercury News' gaming/tech reporter Dean Takahashi, Nvidia, AMD, and some other big names in the gaming industry plan to launch a so-called PC Gaming Alliance next week at the Games Developer Conference.

Like you'd expect, the goal is to re-establish the PC as a viable gaming platform.

Obviously, the reality is that gaming consoles offer a less powerful platform than the average PC. But that just points to the complexity of developing games for the PC: not only do the various components within a PC vary widely, but the performance ranges widely as well. Trying to develop a game with multiple rendering paths for as varied a customer base as possible is challenging, to say the least. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at least offer a stable, consistent hardware platform.

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