כמה מראשי תעשיית המשחקים התכנסו לדון על מצב שוק ה- PC בהווה ובעתיד, על ההבדלים בשווקי העולם, איומים על שוק הPC, איך הם רואים את השוק בעוד כמה שנים ועוד :

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6333387/the-state-of-pc-gaming/index.html?tag=topslot;thumb;5

Karl-Magnus Troedsson, general manager, DICE

hacking is one of our biggest problems. I think every company out there is arming themselves to the teeth when it comes to security.

I think PC gaming is going to explode. Battlefield was founded on PC, so we feel very close to the PC community.

There's also the fact that the PC gaming platform itself is getting so powerful that you can do a lot more on it than the consoles. I'm not saying the console cycle is ending in any way, but it's getting toward the end.

...a reason why I believe in the PC's future, and it's what I like to call the rise of the indie developer. I work for DICE, and we're a part of EA, but I'm really happy to see that there are so many indie developers that grow from being in a garage with one to two guys into a proper developer.

Gabe Newell, managing director, Valve

What's going to be true about the PC industry is that where it's successful is going to surprise the people who are already in the business…that it's not predictable. If it were, then everyone would go off and do that. Nobody would've predicted Zynga before Zynga actually happened. What they're doing is astonishing.

Five years from now, PCs will be 32 times as fast. Graphics hardware will be 100 times as fast. We'll have gigantic memory storage. We'll be seeing 50-plus gigabyte memory systems. Networking will be getting faster, but it will be getting faster slower than the client. And that will cause more people to put more intelligence at the edges of the network instead of centralizing it.

Dr. Ray Muzyka, cofounder, BioWare

I think there are different flavors of games in all the territories, but in all of them, the PC market is pretty vibrant, and I see it as a really exciting opportunity.

Dr. Greg Zeschuk, cofounder, BioWare

it's probably the biggest platform. It's the most successful platform

I think mobile is going to be really strong. Frankly, our mobile phones are starting to look a lot like PCs these days with their own screen. That's going to be one of the interesting challenges going forward.

Frank Pearce, executive vice president product development, Blizzard

you can view it as a threat or you can view it as an opportunity whether it's iPhones, tablets, or social networks like Facebook. Those all potentially represent a big threat to the PC gaming market, but at the same time, if you look at some of the games on Facebook, they have 80 million people that have played these games.

The most important thing we're going to see in PC gaming is a constantly connected networked experience for people because they are discovering how important their connections to their friends and family are.

Fredrik Wester, CEO, Paradox Interactive

Streaming will have a great impact and the opportunities for independent game companies to grow has never been bigger, so I expect the coming five to 10 years to be the most innovative in the history of gaming. Go indies!

Eric Flannum, lead designer, Guild Wars 2

The biggest threat is people running around saying PC gaming is [dead], but I think it's really just a matter of PC gaming shifting and changing its focus.

משחקי אינדי,גם מייקרוסופט התחילה כאינדי,גם HP,APPLE...

שירותים כמו ה On-Live יהיו העתיד, לפחות חלק ממנו. ברגע שיבינו איך לעשות את זה כמו שצריך ויעלו על שיטות שיווק ודרכים למשוך את הצרכן זה יטוס.