Players with a little gaming experience in China may still remember the era when PC games dominated. At that time, most players relied on computers to get in touch with games, and Internet cafes became the most popular entertainment venues. However, with the development of the times, PCs have gradually been replaced by mobile phones, and traditional PC games have also suffered severe blows with the development of mobile games. The market size has gradually shrunk and become an "old antique" in the eyes of many people.
Interestingly, when mobile games gradually became the mainstream of the market, the top mobile games began to "counterattack" the PC market again. Starting from " Genshin Impact ", more and more mobile games have been launched on the PC side, and the PC side is even better than the mobile side in terms of operationality and picture performance. This phenomenon has made some netizens unable to understand and asked: Didn’t it mean that PC games are already old antiques? What mobile games need to be released in PC version?
In the eyes of these netizens, the PC side is a more advanced existence than the mobile side, and the crowding of mobile games on the PC side seems to mean that the PC game is recovering. However, some players are skeptical and have expressed pessimistically: mobile games are crowded with PCs, which is a sign of the decline of the PC games or even "destruction". It’s not something that can be called PC games just by playing on the computer. Your game niche has been squeezed out. Is there any future to talk about?
As these players said, although the gap between the screen performance between PC and mobile games is now relatively close, there are natural differences in the essence of the game. The PC game is a game mode with a very mature gameplay mechanism, which emphasizes the speed of slow pace, powerful social and interactive gameplay, and requires players to accumulate experience in the game world for a long time to grow. When mobile games were released, they were known for their short, flat and fast game experience. Players mostly focus on fragmented time. Even some heavy mobile games emphasize "single-player solo" and pay more attention to personal experience. In the past, traditional PC game players could still stick to their PC game field due to screen performance and other reasons. If the player group that could only "difficult defense" was diverted by mobile games, then PC games could only face a darker and darker path.
The last MMORPG in China that can be called a masterpiece is the " Against the Water Cold " under NetEase more than three years ago. Speaking of which, the birth of this game is also full of drama, and it can be said that it is the last legacy of the PC game era - this game was launched in 2013. The reason why it was launched in 2018 is just because NetEase wants to create a flagship PC game product and strives for excellence in details, so that the R&D team spent longer on game development. Because it happened to catch up with the market vacuum period of traditional PC games and shoddy mobile games when it was launched, this game has won the recognition of players with its excellent picture performance and careful details, injecting a shot in the weak PC game market.
Although "Against the Cold" has achieved a good start under "coin of chance", it still has to bear huge pressure in the process of game operation. Faced with the two sides of similar PC games and emerging mobile games, "Against the Cold" can only maintain a huge team of more than 200 people for a long time, actively learn the excellent game elements on the market, and continuously use new content and new gameplay to increase players' game needs. In this process, "Against the Cold" has gradually become "deviant", and even includes non-traditional MMO gameplay content such as "bringing children" and "open world" that pay more attention to personal experience, making itself like a "ship of Theseus", and evolved into what players expected with super-speed updates and iterations.
As the market is constantly being eroded and diverted, the future of PC games will undoubtedly become more and more difficult. So, how do you view the fact that mobile games are crowded with PCs? Tell me what you think.
