subject: Online Games Join The Online Games Community [print this page] With the popularity of online games, we can find hundreds of websites competing with each other in offering the pleasure of playing online along with hundreds of people all over the world at the same time. One needs a computer connected with internet to play online. The new inventions in information technology has enabled people choose many options available on the Internet in order to fulfill their online gaming needs. Online games are available in stunning audio visual effects and appeal to a new genre of gaming community which makes the online gaming a social activity. In recent years, the latest trends in online gaming have given a rise in the popularity of highly addictive graphical role playing games which offer 3D quality.
Some of the Online Games suit small group of people while some games suit a group of larger number of people. With the advancement of technology, people have the alternate option of playing the online games using game consoles rather than PCs or Laptops, which are much larger in size. The gaming services like Xbox and PlayStation are growing tremendously at a brisk pace. The cost factor also gives game consoles an upper hand over PCs. Consoles are available for less than $500 in branded segments. The other important factor is the ease of use. A game console can be used any where and almost all the latest games are supported by consoles where as a PC needs to have compatible hardware and software to play some high resolution games.
The online games consoles have become common today. PCs are still most preferred medium of playing online games due to their capability in offering larger number of most popular games. Apart from gaming, PCs are useful in other things also such as web surfing, e-mailing, word processing and many more which are not possible with game consoles.
There is a lack of inter connectivity among the console brands of different manufacturers. Each brand is restricted to the brands own network. This problem is generally not faced by those who play their online games using PCs. And Computers remain dominant in the online gaming segment.
