22nd February 2003, 1:58 AM
They will always be around because game companies will always see this platform there they can make games for. If up to this point, there were never any PC games (let's say they all got shoved out of space/time somehow), BUT the PC was still around, it would take 2 seconds for about 20 PC game developers to announce they are making games for the PC. The PC won't die because of the real world applications it's used for. The PC game won't die because PCs will always be powerful enough to play games. The fact is, PC games not only won't die, they CAN'T die.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)