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For the next good while Windows still will hold the crown. I doubt there would be enough people using Linux who would play and therefore pay for games but someone will have to make a step sooner or later. Linux has come a looong way in the last few years even - Dell are even shipping computers with it. The games for Linux - interesting if Valve do port games for Linux. Sure, the console hardware is cheaper but the games bite you in the butt.

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My hardware + game expenditures on my PC are actually lower than the consoles I've owned.

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I think it wasn't until Bioshock that I thought to myself, 'Whoa, time to upgrade here.' In that time I upgraded the RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb for $60 and had to replace my video card twice because of hardware issues (destroyed one, wife's card died and I gave her the 2nd) than because I had to. The CPU/Mobo/RAM/GPU I bought 5 years ago still plays most modern games acceptably well. This is actually not that huge of a deal. But as a separate gaming platform facing off against 3 other separate gaming platforms I think it's actually middle-of-the-pack. IE, it is only when one places Windows against all other consoles combined that it seems to be a minor player. If one looks at Windows as 'just another console' one finds it competes quite well. Consoles seem to be where most of their money is coming from but, for now, Windows holds the OS gaming crown ) Hence, Windows will, for the foreseeable future, have a large dominance over other OSes with gaming. That'd make a pretty good test best, don't you think? If Valve brings Steam over to Linux and ports Source at the same time we could see native versions of Half-Life 2, CS:S, Team Fortress 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead.

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Valve has had job listings up that specifically state that they are looking for people to port software to Linux. Like you (and many other 'realists') would expect to pay for content like games that take many hours to program and test but the numbers and copyright protection (as Linux is OS) would deter them in not knowing what profit could be made.Īctually I think this might be changing in the next few years. Then there is the cost of hardware - CPU,mobo,ram,psu,graphics card just to play the latest games! )

Like you (and many other 'realists') would expect to pay for content like games that take many hours to program and test but the numbers and copyright protection (as Linux is OS) would deter them in not knowing what profit could be made.

Probably be another 10 years! Better start [-o< I've been saying that for almost a decade now. I would drop Windows this instant if I knew, without a doubt, my gaming would not suffer. I've been using Linux for email/browsing/word processing/etc for going on a decade now. I mean the second question is the real one, I think. The other question is if Linux had the same AAA game lineup as Windows would enough Windows holdouts switch over to make a difference? So the question is are there enough of the practicalists to count? Well, that's one question. I have no problems paying for games because I'm paying for the content.

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The other are the practicalists who feel that software should be free but paying for content is ok. One are the purists who feel that all software should be free.

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