The video game industry

[Kagatob]

Perhaps consolification is merely a side effect of the market trends within the industry. PC gaming as the top level medium is going the way that Arcades did in the 80's.

I just miss being able to use games as benchmarks to instantly tell if you've built a good "gaming rig" (Doom 3 with my previous box, Crysis for my most recent rig). I know it's not about graphics but it was still damn nice to see what all of those new fancy engines could do every few years. Now we have Rage, which opened up as a buggy failure that faded away while a few of us left (foolishly) hold out hopes for Doom 4.