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Consoles hold back the PC? Think again.

nameless12345 · 2010-11-04 11:03:33

There is a lot of talk how consoles are the 'bottleneck' preventing the PC from excelling. But is that really so?The truth is that many graphically demanding PC games do not sell as good on the PC as on the consoles.For example Crysis cost millions to make but sold a lot less than it could if it were multiplatform. On the other hand, Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 sold more than 8 million copies.Games like Modern Warfare 2 sell excellent on the consoles too, so it's logical that devs of these games focus more on the console versions.Furthermore, games like Gears of War were said to sell poor on the PC, which may explain why no more Gears of War games for the PC.Bottom line is: the consoles don't hold back the PC, but there is more profit on the consoles for a lot of action-oriented games so many devs and publishers rather focus on them.

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#201 nameless12345

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Ill let these pics do the talking:
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That pic is comical, but I don't agree with it. CoD 1 was imo the best and it went downhill afterwards (mainly because of stagnation). And CoD 3 was console exclusive even.

When it comes to CoD series it's one of the rare cases I agree it was dumbed-down for consoles :D

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#202 nameless12345

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[QUOTE="nameless12345"]
[QUOTE="Heil68"]The ownage and denial in this thread is funny stuff. tenaka2

Elaborate. All you PC fans know to say is that the "evil" consoles are "bottlenecking" the PC, but when it comes to devs saying that there is too much piracy on the PC and that their games don't sell good enough, you just say they are overblowing it. Isn't that true? :D

Console games are generally less complex to appeal to the console userbase that prefer simple easy titles.

Simple doesn't necesarily equal easy. The F-Zero series are simple but hard.

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#203 ExESGO

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[QUOTE="ExESGO"]That is a very good analogy with me being an artist and everything, I can attest to that. But I think a better one would be working in one of the big major comic companies like DC and etc. where you don't have freedom and you don't generally claim any rights to what you drew.AdrianWerner

Nah, because drawing for DC still lets you do creativity. Modern console games often have 200+ peoples team, for majority of people working on them it's closer to working in factory than being an artist.

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