Computer games are video games too

[jackfaire]

Not a complaint about people who don't think they are but rather stores. I went to a well known electronics store yesterday and decided while I was there to check out if they had a computer game my friend has been saying I should pick up.

I stand there look at all of the signs, Hmmm computers, TVs, MP3s, ooooo video games. So I head over to the video games and while I find a game I have been wanting to get for my PS2, yes I still play mind, I notice there are no computer games well that just can't be.

So I flag down an employee and am informed that computer games are on the other side of the store with no bloody sign explaining where they are.

Now not a big deal that I gotta walk to the other side of the store but really why the hell are they in two different sections and even more so how many employees get asked daily where they are because the section isn't labeled.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

That's the way it's done in every electronics store I've ever been to, the logic being that, for whatever reason console gamers and PC gamers tend to be mostly separate groups who gravitate to their respective areas (consoles vs computers). *shrug*

If XBOX and Playstation are the crips and the bloods of the ned world than Cosolers and PC gamers are the Sharks and the Jets. Still rivals, but it's all much, much more lame.

[Red Panda]

Usually computer games are put by the other programs. I've also noticed that console games tend to be put behind those plastic sliding doors while computer games are just on shelves.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Actually, PC gaming is on the verge of making an upsurge again. Gaming companies are noticing that the PC keeps evolving what they can do and as such the gaming industry can keep developing more and more realistic and/or visually pleasing games.

PC's can allow them to stay on the cutting edge.

Consoles leave you stuck with what the system can do. The Playstation 2 games had to be playable on all PS2 consoles. Considering that the PS2 is in it's 11th year of release (And they're still making them for sale), if I make a PS2 game today, it must be playable on the first generation console as well.

11 years along and I still have to program like it's 1999. That's a long time to sit on the older code.

Whereas in that same 11 years, PC's have grown more powerful, 64 bit operating systems are gaining in popularity, and the video performance of today's cards is almost more powerful than whole computers systems were just 6 years ago.

What makes it so hard to sell PC games however is the consistency in console gaming. What makes it a disadvantage for Console gaming is a boon for the sales of same. The simple fact that if you own a Wii, any and all Wii games WILL play on your Wii. Same with PS3 and XBox360. There is no arcane guess work needed.

With the PC, you have to know what your system has (not easy for the non-tech savy who bought a prepackaged system from a company like Dell or HP) and have to compare it to the box. And if you make a mistake, you're stuck with the game simply because you can't return opened software anywhere unless the disk is damaged...and that's exchange only.

So yeah, PC games are real games...but it's not as easy for the average Game Store to sell them.

[insertNameHere]

But with console games if it works on one it will work on them all, computers you need to usually have the latest greatest and there are so many combinations some just don't work. That is why I like consoles, of course they do have the PS3 which really isn't taking off as well as it should since sony keeps fucking it.

First they dropped hardware emulation of PS2, made it software, not they removed the OTHER OS feature since peopel figured out how to get the full power from PS3, I mean really, MS has ADDED features to the 360, and Sony is taking them away, not a smart move.

Also, Consoles have a single purpose, don't need to worry about viruses for the most part. You can play on your TV, while someone else is checking email, they each have their purpose.

[jackfaire]

My biggest issue more than them not being together is that there was no way to know where the PC games were. You walk in there is a sign for every single section of the store except for video games. Even a software sign but the PC games weren't even in the software section.

If all the employees had been busy I would have had to search the whole store just to find them.

[Plaidman]

Isn't Target just made of awesome?

[ExRetailDrone]

I never understood that, either. I used to work in the electronics section of The Bullseye. Electronics and entertainment were two separate entities. Console games were in the electronics section, and computer games were in the entertainment section (along with books, movies, and music). Not only were they in the entertainment section, they were as far away from electronics as you could get while still being within entertainment (bordering stationary). Needless to say, I had lots of people asking where the computer games were.

[smileyeagle1021]

ERD, that is bizzare, if anything I would think it would be the other way around that computer games would be in electronics and console games in entertainment.

[ExRetailDrone]

ERD, that is bizzare, if anything I would think it would be the other way around that computer games would be in electronics and console games in entertainment.

Yeah, I never could understand it, either. I can see if the Great Poobah in the company figured that a console is needed to play console games, and consoles are electronics, then put everything for that in electronics. But, if that was the logic, then computers would also be part of electronics, but the games aren't.

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Yeah, I don't get it.

[Plaidman]

I asked a clerk once that, and he explained it this way.

Alot of the video games are high priced items (Some computer games are too). However, alot, and most computer games can be just downloaded and taken for free, so it's not such a hot item on the black market, or any resell anyway. In the electronics area though, those are hot items and not so easily copyed and moved around, and so requires the higher security of more personal to keep an eye on it, and more additional cameras.