Nope. Not at all. You make it sound like some major time and education investment. Simply not true. Secondly, you have absolutely zero proof that your assertion is fact. You've made a blanket statement that you can't back up.
clone01
I think you are exagerating what I am saying, in order to discredit it. I also think you are underestimating the limited knowledge of the typical person when it comes to computers. We "know" it is easy to slot in a GPU into the same shaped slot, plug in the power and video cables, and install the drivers to make it work. But try telling that to someone who hasn't done it personally, so have in their mind; over complicated the process. Try telling it to someone who has no intention of learning, because not having to deal with that stuff is a argument they use for consoles.
I have given my argument as to why I believe the typical console gamer is less knowledgeable than the typical PC gamer, because PC gaming encourages learning; where as console gaming does not. You have simply outright rejected the idea without attempting to counter it, I ask that you do so.
For example. By having to upgrade my computer, combined with what I hear in the industry, I have developed a basic understanding of how memory affects my in game performance. It is because of this, and what the CEO of Crytek said about Crysis 1, that I am able to explain why Crysis 1 couldn't be ported to consoles. Yet I consistently found over the passing years, that console gamers ignorance on the subject; has led to them simply rejecting everything I say. Not because they had evidence that I was wrong, not because they could counter what I said, but because they didn't like what I was saying.
Many of them honestly believed that levels designed for PC systems with a 2GB configuration, and designed to load the entire core level into memory, could simply be "optimized" to run on consoles "somehow". As if optimization is a form of magic that allows you to make consoles 256mb of ram perform like four times that amount. No matter how much I simplified the explanation and tried to get across how lubricious their views were, they stuck with them. Their blind assumption held more weight to them than all the evidence in the world.
It is because of this sort of attitude, and what I witness regularly from the seemingly automatic belief in anything their 1st parties say, that I coined this phrase.
PC gamers are knowledge driven, console gamers are hype driven.
Farmville has what, 80 million active players? Crysis sold what, 1.5 million? 2 million? The "typical pc gamer" plays casual social games. The TC (in his earlier thread that goot locked) tried to bash consoles by saying that the most popular console games were easy, casual, hand-holding games which any non-gamer can pick up. Possibly true. But it's also true that the most popular pc games are the absolute easiest, most casual, do nothing but click click click, social networking games that any 4 year old or 80 year old can play. Is that all there is on pc? No. But if a pc gamer wants to act like consoles are nothing but dumbed down casual stuff, then it is every bit as fair to say that pc gaming is nothing but Farmville.
ianuilliam
The more accessible the game, the broader the audience. Hardcore gamers outnumber niche, mainstream gamers outnumber hardcore, and casual gamers outnumbers mainstream. It's flawed to represent a platform by the casual audience, because it is inevitably bigger than the sort of people who would visit a forum like this; and argue over things the casual gamers wouldn't even care about.
That said, consoles are a inherently broader audience.
Console gamers seem quick to boast about their broad popularity, but quick to criticise labels such consoles being a "mass produced gaming solution for the masses." They cannot have it both ways, they cannot appeal to broader audiences; without being a more casual audience. Consoles were built to be cheap, accessible and have mass appeal. Of course that's going to attract more casuals than a computer were you have to, at the very least, troubleshoot problems every now and then. Console gamers just ship the console off for someone else to fix.
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