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Comment Did people forget about the boomers? (Score 1) 461

The baby boomers that is? The sheer number of them that will be kicking the bucket in the next 10-20 years will actually drop our population. If anyone ever bothered to check out the birth rate in the world they'd see births being lower. Fewer and fewer families are having more than 2 kids, women are focusing on careers instead of families, and again the boomers are about to die. Sure we'll hit 7billion, but in 20 years don't look shocked when we're back down to 4-5billion. Remember as well that China has a one child only policy. So that 1 billion population will be almost halved in 20 years as well. If you check, all the first world countries populations are actually going to decline. It's the 3rd world populations that are still having 3+ kids per family. But then again they still have a lot of problems medically than we do in first world countries. I'm not worried about the world population at all. The world will still be around and those that survive even the most catastrophic global collapse will re-up the population to stable levels. I just think all the doomsayers need to off themselves if they really think it'll be that bad.
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Game Devs On the Future of PC Gaming 375

Shacknews wraps up a developer panel at PAX East discussing the future of gaming on the PC. They cover topics including DRM, digital download platforms and cloud-based gaming services. "Joe Kreiner of Terminal Reality: 'If you look at it from a giant publisher perspective, then the numbers on the PC just really don't make financial sense for you to bother with it. But if you start out with the mindset — you know, you're targeting that group, you make a niched product that's going [to] do well, if you look at a lot of the titles on Steam, Torchlight's a really good example — as long as you know that's your audience to begin with, and you make something inside of a budget that you know you're going to be selling those kinds of numbers, you can be very successful. I think it just takes a targeted developer. ... There is no [PC] platform, really. It's just a mish-mosh of hardware, an operating system that kind of supports games. The problem with that platform is, there's no standards and piracy is rampant, so why would we want to make a video game for that platform unless you had some sort of draconian DRM thing to keep it from being stolen?"

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