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| Changing perspectives of gaming | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU , Mar 4 : Over the many, many, many years of gaming it has become a massive phenomenon that has swept the entire world over. There are gamers spread throughout every single continent. Of course this is not the case, rivalries exist between millions of gamers as they fight to stand up for their favorite developers and producers as well as genres and formats.
A prime example of this barrier is presented by the PC and Console 'war'. What are the major differences and ultimately which side reigns supreme in the scope of it all? We take on the PC side of things, though there will be a bit of console talk here and there.
Gaming is a universal language after all so it wouldn't be fair to leave them out.
If we lean back in the time, we try and find out how this whole gaming industry started. It began with a simple, but revolutionary design of the ultimate game, Pong.
While talking to the marketing director of Sony in Gandhi Nagar, Sanjay Mishra said, "There are two types of consoles available in the market today, home and portable. Over the years number of companies has popped up in a hope to steal some of the limelight from these other behemoth companies. However in most instances it has been too little avail."
Thus if you compare lets say World of War craft, Halo 3, the Wii Fit, and Farmville, there aren't actually all that many people who would be attracted by all of these games. And it isn't as if the over eighty million players of Farmville are somehow "missing" on the other platforms and games.
Aayush khanna, a MBA student, JU said, "For me, ultimately, it's all about convenience. With a console you can literally plug it in and play. However, with my consoles I can sit on the sofa, chill out after another generic day at the university and play great games to my heart's content."
Early Times went into the den of geek gamers and here is what they shared with us.
Shivang Dubey said, "In the end I love my strategy games, supreme commander on the PC is amazing, it's not on the console period.
I got city revolution and thought I actually got a bit dumber. Consoles are good for throw away shoot-ups PC's are good for strategy gaming. Having split screen as a negative for PC is I think actually a positive.
If you're new to gaming but want to get involved home consoles might be your best bet, easy to set up and get to grips they are far better suited for beginners then the more complicated PC systems.
That's not to say that there isn't a great deal of in-depth and involving console games out there as well of course. However if you already have a fairly well-powered PC and are confident with using it then there's no harm in trying out some new games, once you get the hang of how they work they can be great fun too, and often provide an even smaller learning curve if your used to mouse and keyboard activity anyway. |
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