spoiler alert:

Didn't he say RDR would not sell? 

Haha, did you see the episode where some guy asked if Ubisoft's DRM tactics were good or bad for their bottom line?  A totally legitimate question.  Instead of answering it he just flipped out about throwing everybody in jail.  Shit was pretty funny.  The guy is basically Jim Sterling in a suit, just saying the most inflammatory thing that enters his head in order to provoke controversy/hits/attention/profile (take your pick).

He's a pc troll, I know him since my days at gametrailers, he hates pc gamers.

"Monitors aren't that great?" 
He's so well informed.

PCs have such massive market penetration that its hard to see pc gaming going anywhere.  It's here to stay, but it might evolve into things more like farmville and stupid shit like that.
 
Also, the wide-open nature of PCs still make it the natural haven of indie games, and even though XBLA is trying to make the push towards that kind of environment,  I don't see them surpassing the PC on that point anytime soon.
 
Another thing is the ease of porting.  Most games on 360 can be easily ported to Windows since they share the same kind of basic architecture.  It takes minimal amount of time and effort to half-ass a PC port, so little money that even though the PC makes up a smaller market than the consoles, publishers still make money on PC even though they lose some sales due to piracy.  It doesn't work the other way around, though.   A game made specifically for a PC interface will probably not work on consoles as well due to control issues.
 
Plus there's the emulation side of things.  As more NESes eventually break due to old age around the world, PC emulators are going to end up being one of the last bastions for retro gaming outside of the Wii Virtual Console and Game Room (What a joke that is, though.)

"Haha, did you see the episode where some guy asked if Ubisoft's DRM tactics were good or bad for their bottom line?  A totally legitimate question.  Instead of answering it he just flipped out about throwing everybody in jail.  Shit was pretty funny.  The guy is basically Jim Sterling in a suit, just saying the most inflammatory thing that enters his head in order to provoke controversy/hits/attention/profile (take your pick). "

" "Monitors aren't that great?"  He's so well informed. "

When Valve and Blizzard go out of business, it will be time to start worrying about PC gaming.

" Haha, did you see the episode where some guy asked if Ubisoft's DRM tactics were good or bad for their bottom line?  A totally legitimate question.  Instead of answering it he just flipped out about throwing everybody in jail.  Shit was pretty funny.  The guy is basically Jim Sterling in a suit, just saying the most inflammatory thing that enters his head in order to provoke controversy/hits/attention/profile (take your pick). "

" "Monitors aren't that great?"  He's so well informed. "

PC is an open platform, so nothing can force it to die, unlike a closed console system.  
  
Also I'm more than happy to play multiplatform games, most of which turn out to be superior on PC, and available to purchase at the click of a button and ready to play in a few hours. 
 
I will say one thing, Steam did save the PC gaming market from being any more fragmented and dissolved than it already was, and now, more than ever, we have an incredibly strong and unified service bringing everything together. Some people may disagree that a unified service is a good thing, but at least on PC, they have a CHOICE not to use it. The entire platform is driven by choice, the most important value in the gaming industry.
 
In my point of view, PC is stronger than ever, because of such services, and because hardware costs are at an all-time low, mixed with the fact that most games are, again, multiplatform, thus sticking to a certain threshold of specification requirements that the PC, in this console generation, has surpassed since 2006/07.  
 
I could still be running all these new games just fine on my 2007 setup which consisted of a quad core, 4GB of ram and an 8800GTX. But I'm also a 3D artist so I need double to triple the hardware capability. 
 
Also, Pacter is a dumb moron, who spews out bullshit every episode he gets. I find it funny he acts like such a baby every time he says something risky, he's like "ok yeah you flamers are probably goign to blahblahblah" and then he goes on to flame away every chance he gets (mostly at pc gamers). Go watch that marvelous episode where he "answers" a question about RTS games by bringing up all the downsides of Turn-Based strategy games. 

God, not this again.

" @gike987 said:

" "Monitors aren't that great?"  He's so well informed. "

Do you think Pachter even knows that computer monitors can do more than 1080p, and that it isn't just an an upscaled image? "

The man is a twat. Valve makes millions off of Steam and if you look at the Steam stats, the service peaks at 2.1 million users a day. That shows  that it isn't a declining market by any means. Also, Blizzard is still very much a PC exclusive company, Starcraft 2 is going to destroy any game sales record this summer.

PC has been "dead" for the better part of a decade and it is stupid thinking that the bloated superstar that is Valve and the slow as molasses Blizzard is keeping the medium afloat when PC exclusive games have been doing it.

" @Ineedaname: 118.    Great, now I'm part of the problem. "

" PC has been "dead" for the better part of a decade and it is stupid thinking that the bloated superstar that is Valve and the slow as molasses Blizzard is keeping the medium afloat when PC exclusive games have been doing it. "

I like Pachter, plus, he has a Devo hat behind him.
 

PS3 more powerful than any PC uguys

" @Jimbo said:

" @Ineedaname: 118.    Great, now I'm part of the problem. "

We all are.  According to him we're all "Flamers" for providing a different argument/perspective.  P.s. you all deserve to go to jail. "

You know, I don't really care if people say it's dying or isn't. As far as I can tell, all the games I want to play are coming out for it. So you can scream it's dying or it isn't, I'm just gonna keep playing my games on it in the meantime.
kthanks.

For being an analyst, he's not a good analyst at all. 

" I like Pachter, plus, he has a Devo hat behind him.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

   Now, crack that whip Giant Bomb. "

" You know, I don't really care if people say it's dying or isn't. As far as I can tell, all the games I want to play are coming out for it. So you can scream it's dying or it isn't, I'm just gonna keep playing my games on it in the meantime. kthanks. "

In my opinion, PC gaming is far from dead. Not only thanks to Blizzard and Valve (Steam included), but also to many of the multiplatform games that run nicely on PC.
  
The biggest vulnerabilities that the PC has are both the piracy and that it is less user friendly (have in mind that system requirements and all the technical stuff are an obstacle to people who aren't that tech-savy). Regarding piracy.. For instance, I live in a third world country where people really lack an education and even common sense. A lot of people here are lazy and selfish, and even if they have money they just prefer to pirate as much as they can. Seeing that happen close to me, it is really evident that consoles are harder to pirate than just having a PC.
 
Despite all that, I consider myself primarily a PC gamer, but I also play games on consoles considerably.

PC gaming is fine. Better this year than it has been in a while.

" @ryanwho: nice troll attempt  =)  btw stop hurting the name ryan, its mine too jerk "

i like Practer but really he is nothing more than an ESPN analyst. Anyone can believe they are an expert, but until the game is played in all reality their words dont mean shit.
 
For example: I am predicting Halo: Reach will sell 4, maybe 5 million copies. See, I am an expert. 

Yay more Patcher hate for him doing his job. Damn, people show so much hate for this guy and I don't get it. His job is to look at sale sheets and make predicitons. 
 
"this guy is such a moron blah blah blah" 
 
He's a moron for making an educated guess based on the data and trends available to him? He knows he's going to be wrong half the time, but he's doing his damn job for crying out loud.

" @Jimbo:  I think you fail to see that he did answer the question. He very much does think its ok for Ubisoft to use it's DRM, and that (as he has said many times) the pc scene makes up around 6 to 10 percent of the market, therefore he implied that not having the pc market wouldn't hurt ubisoft very much. "

" Yay more Patcher hate for him doing his job. Damn, people show so much hate for this guy and I don't get it. His job is to look at sale sheets and make predicitons.  "this guy is such a moron blah blah blah"  He's a moron for making an educated guess based on the data and trends available to him? He knows he's going to be wrong half the time, but he's doing his damn job for crying out loud. "

" @ryanwho:   Do you think they need to release a pc version to the masses to make great ad campaigns? That is quite the assumption. All i'm saying is that the PC market isn't that big, therefore losing that segment of the market wouldn't hurt them as much as you'd like to think. All i'm saying is that he did, in fact answer the question. Basically by citing the low number of pc gamers and by voicing his support of DRM he has basically said it will not hurt their revenue. I'm merely explaining that he did in fact answer the question.   "

" @PrimeSynergy said:

" Yay more Patcher hate for him doing his job. Damn, people show so much hate for this guy and I don't get it. His job is to look at sale sheets and make predicitons.  "this guy is such a moron blah blah blah"  He's a moron for making an educated guess based on the data and trends available to him? He knows he's going to be wrong half the time, but he's doing his damn job for crying out loud. "

Dude at one point he said the PS3 is more powerful then any PC in the world... "

" @ryanwho:   Do you think they need to release a pc version to the masses to make great ad campaigns? That is quite the assumption. All i'm saying is that the PC market isn't that big, therefore losing that segment of the market wouldn't hurt them as much as you'd like to think. All i'm saying is that he did, in fact answer the question. Basically by citing the low number of pc gamers and by voicing his support of DRM he has basically said it will not hurt their revenue. I'm merely explaining that he did in fact answer the question.   "

" PC has been "dead" for the better part of a decade and it is stupid thinking that the bloated superstar that is Valve and the slow as molasses Blizzard is keeping the medium afloat when PC exclusive games have been doing it. "

I got to GT.com for the video quality, looking at trailers released for some games, and nothing else.
 
Out of their entire panel they had, at one point, 1 guy who partially defended the PC and its player base during one of their more or less inane talks. The fact that they couldn't get Crysis running on higher than medium for its release and left it outside on their top list for graphics that year didn't help my views on them back then either.
 
They're a bunch of console fanboys, and when it comes to computers they are nothing short of incompetent. Extremely so. Watching GT for PC footage is like watching Fox News for actual news. It just doesn't add up.

I had completely forgotten about this guy.
 
God, he's funny.

After some one has made a thread on GB about him being in one of the videos, I went to watch a couple.
Having seen a few vids with his comments I never bother to watch or listen to anything coming out of his mouth ever again.

" @Detrian said:

" PC has been "dead" for the better part of a decade and it is stupid thinking that the bloated superstar that is Valve and the slow as molasses Blizzard is keeping the medium afloat when PC exclusive games have been doing it. "

What are you even talking about? If you're talking about the number of people playing PC games being an indicator that it's dead then you're very wrong indeed. More people than ever are playing games on their PC, the fact that many of those people are either playing casual games or MMO's is irrelevant the audience is still there and is growing. Anyway for those who want to play "traditional" games Valve has your back putting many of those quality titles into an easy to access and streamlined service and giving you a discount on the price to boot! PC exclusives just like console exclusives are a dying breed, with the costs of development becoming so insane it doesn't make sense to limit your market. "

Such a pointless thread.

Blizzard is not keeping PC gaming afloat, with the exception of WoW. This is not a slight against Blizzard, but they simply don't have enough releases to actually say they're keeping PC gaming alive. Valve, however, has Steam, and that is definitely serving to keep the PC relevant. 

Got to love the Pach.