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I predict that Desktop style PCs will make somewhat of a comeback.
Of people who I personally know who were diehard console fans, many are going back to PCs.
Partly as some were not happy with the limitations of the Xbox one.
But also as the DRM on PCs is often a lot more consumer friendly.
I would add this is not so much with the big game publishers, which unfortunately often have a lot of restrictive DRM, but there's a LOT of indie publishers on the rise in the PC platform and they are becoming a lot more popular as well.
That and whilst I love using a tablet for reading PDFs, email and so on, they're pretty die with games in general.
A desktop PC is far superior and more cost effective really, especially if you build your own PC, which I do.
PCs are upgradeable, which Tablets and consoles are not. I have a couple of PCs, one brand new one I built and my secondary one is about 6 years old. I've changed the video card once in that time and it runs perfectly well. I expect it to runs for a few more years at least.
I DO think Windows 8 contributed to the decline of the Windows Desktop PC somewhat, regardless of whether it's any good or not. I've not really used Windows 8 myself and I decided with my recent new PC build to get Windows 7, so I can't judge either way if Windows 8 deserves the bad press.
Another point is it's easy just to plug your PC into a HD TV now as well, so you can play on your PC like a console on a big TV. Which looks great. In the past it wasn't so practical to do this.
If you use Steam ( a platform to buy PC games and play in a Windows PC) it has specific functionality to support this connect to TV mode.
All in all Desktop PCs are just more powerful, more versatile, more cost effective and less restrictive than the other devices, which I think people are starting to realise more and more.
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