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hey guys I'm vietri with Haru canucks and I'm attending a very interesting event where we have Victor Lucas alienware and a whole bunch of gaming folks here that will be in engaging in a roundtable discussion for sort of the future of PC gaming interested to hear what Victor Lucas has to say so the pioneer in this field of Technology and video gaming as well and also see someone alien where's new gaming machines that they were announced at e3 now finally making their way into Canada so really excited to see exactly what we are to expect with their machines and also to see where the gaming industry is heading in the future so let's go and check it out so hey guys i'm here with victor Lucas the guy from electric playground and an excellent show for reviews on the run which are entertaining high energy and very informative as well thank you we were here at the roundtable discussion talking about the future of PC gaming yes so you think pc gaming has reached a peak no not at all no no I think there's been a bit of a revolution and acceptance for PC gaming over the last few years and I think you know we identified that steam and to some extent origin we're part of that equation I think part of the equation is also being able to plug your computer's so easily into your television sets and plug in an hdmi cable and everything's up and running and running beautifully I think day and day delivery of a lot of these console games on PC has really helped with that as well I think what's happened is that pc gaming has been embracing a broader crowd and getting a broader crowd to get into games and i think that the part of the you know part of what happened is that people bought ps3 and xbox 360's and kind of reached the end of the life cycle and said I want better looking stuff than this and and the buzz took a little long before the ps4 and xbox one were was really percolating so I think a lot of people kind of shifted their their sort of attention over to pcs there's just so many solutions now that are much more affordable and much more I don't know open-ended they give you a lot more different kinds of ways in the play games right now and and I think a large factor in pc gaming success right now is also these steam sales and the lower price point that you get right out of the gate with a lot of the software right now I mean you pick up a game like batman arkham origins for ten or twenty dollars less on the pc as a download than you do when you go to the store to buy it for your ps3 or xbox 360 and you get a better looking game you know i think people are gluing into that right yeah for sure what do you think is the biggest challenge right now for PC gaming industry moving forward I think it's it's windows i think that people have a real problem with the finicky nature of windows as an operating system and I you know windows is also trying to do a great many things to for a huge audience and I think that's a challenge if you just want to jump in and play games you know there's security issues there's confliction issues there's you know some cards aren't talking to some cards it depends on rival issues yeah driver issues and you know some peripherals don't work some of your legacy stuff doesn't work if PC gaming is going to become wider and more accepted for you know gamers that are even becoming more sort of invested in mobile gaming or tablet gaming right now it just needs to be seamless you need to forget about the technology there's a lot more elegance with everything that that's available to people right now it needs to be even more so if it's going to be massive adoption out there you know steam is kind of throwing down the gauntlet by having their steam OS on the back of Linux yeah it wouldn't surprise me to see alienware come up with the alienware OS that sort of threads through steam but I think that there should be just no barrier to entry from you sitting you know at your desk or on your couch and jumping into your game so you think that's where as steam OS is heading into I think that's where games are heading right you know and i think pc games will adopt some of those things i think the console games are going to adopt some of those things people need to plug something in turn it on and you're going you know and the pc needs to be like that too i think what's true today and maybe won't be true in 10 years from now is they save your money on buying software for just one platform and just pledging allegiance to one thing and spend a little bit more money to give you the widest access to the content that you want you know Sony is investing in a ton of incredible first-party titles again and again it again same with xbox you know same with Nintendo you know you don't need to just be one kind of game consumer out there you know and I I've always kind of lived by that philosophy I'm hoping for a day where there's a little more unity and there's a little bit more collaboration on getting access to this stuff I think the idea that we have to join these clubs in order to have access to some of this content is is it hurts the industry I mean it may give the business a little short term gain in you know you get you do well one quarter but the next next quarter you get hammered because somebody else came out with an exclusive that you can't play here right I think in the long run that is a detrimental thing I don't think we think about books in that way I don't think we think about music in that way i'll pick a bug you know movies in that way but with video games it's like you have to you have to root for a team and join a team and you get a tattoo of a game brand on your arm and i think that's a little bit silly because we all just want to be entertained by awesome games no matter where they are do you have a favorite game ah well mice my favorite series now my favorite game series of the courage is the Arkham series based on origins not just went over the top for me it's an amazing game again and I'm a huge bat nerd about you my current favorite game would be Dishonored yeah that's an amazing game it's so much our game of that year last year yeah yeah yeah red dead affected me I finished the game and I was I was gutted by the game I love that game you know I loved I didn't know that I wanted to be a cowboy as much as I did until I played that game right you know and it was a profound moving literate beautiful piece of art you know it was just an incredible game and it haunts me I love that game what do you think of the Nvidia shield I think it's the tip to the future I think that portable handhelds state of the art is coming because it seems like it's the the concept of what you're talking about getting something into TV or you know sitting on the couch having that wireless streaming capability but yeah it is i mean it is like the technology is invisible in a way but except the shield looks like crap you know it yes in that case it looks like a big sort of like like it was made out of wood or something you know it just doesn't feel sleek and elegant it doesn't feel like something Sam Fisher would pack around with them you know like and that's that's kind of what we need out of this stuff he almost seems like bendable foldable you know you need to be just making gestures and suddenly it's on a giant screen like that's where we need to go with games at me forget the technology but if we have technology make it look cool look sony's ps4 controllers is that they look awesome and incredible you know and connect to is a huge improve over connect I don't know I'm still not convinced about motion gaming but there is an elegance about the way the xbox one has been put together for sure absolutely yeah it seemed where this is heading yeah okay his sort of has emerged within last year yeah finally making appearance the consumer market yeah when behind this is 4k for 4000 yeah yeah that's 4,000 bucks for the monitor another 4,000 bucks or they have shooter to run the 4k resolution on that yeah so I love good graphics you know i think that's that's a that's a step towards are forgetting with playing games and being lost in these experiences and i think we need to constantly reach for that I think engine design and graphic refinement and improvement and horsepower then it can accommodate these grand visions that are in our minds or you know realizing these dreams is important and it's a big part of the maturation of our in medium I think that we need that but the question is do we need to spend that much money up to get them so I think that we need for K and curb resolutions I think we need flexibility yeah I mean I think we're at the beginning of where this is all going I mean this is a very young medium and it's technology-based now but I want that technology to sort of drop and just become a you know an invisible sort of access points of this incredible content absolutely and I don't want to be thinking about the fact that i'm playing I want to just be playing for you know I want to be lost in experience I've seen under skin and I don't know when this is going to era but the movies gray and they've got some really fascinating tips to what the future of game design is going to be like really emergent kind of technologies and emergent storytelling that's based on internal biorhythms and internal I guess analyzation you know based on psychiatric kind of emotions yeah I mean that's what the book is all about that's what's portrayed in the film and it was kind of wonderful to see this because that's what you can tell we're being let I mean even the kinect sensor with its ability to check your heart rate and all that stuff it's pretty freaky but also pretty unbelievably cool yeah that we're gonna have this communication with our games in the future like that absolutely you know where the algorithms are just insanely complicated yeah we don't think about yeah exactly we're lost in this imaginary okay yeah well thanks so much with 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