So, all the restrictions of the PC with nearly none of the benefits? Oh, I see. If this is so (and it would be suicidal if it is), it looks like the money I've been putting aside will either go to a Wii U or, even better, a new video card.
@MaximumPorkchop @Landsharkk It's true. a large portion of games use Steam for DRM now and increasingly it is the only way to get certain games. However, I will willingly purchase stuff that I could get elsewhere because of the community features and the sales.
Steam needs a more user-friendly offline mode, but it is a genuinely good service and provides excellent value. The same cannot be said for Origin; it's all the crap of Steam with little of the benefit and a bunch of other crap thrown in, too.
Yeah. I have an account from playing games like Mass Effect 3 on consoles, but I'll eat my hat before I download their spyware-ridden client and buy games from them on PC.
@chocomatrix My consistently higher frame rates, sharper textures, more-plentiful shaders, higher resolutions, and superior anti-aliasing would like to have a word with you, scrub.
@BlazeODU "Nintendo CONSTANTLY reinvents their franchises in order to keep the experience fresh. "
Agreed. The IPs and outer trappings can be a little old-hat sometimes, but you are right. There is, more often than not, enough new stuff in these games to keep them interesting. Tom is correct, however, in pointing out that they could be doing more to innovate with all the talent they have there.
@SloganYams @cornbread444 In fairness, that was because everyone's middle-aged parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents bought the Wii for Wii Sports and the like. Most of those units are collecting dust, and those people have no desire for A) a new Wii (if they understand that the Wii U is a new system and not an add-on) and B) to use a system with what they perceive as a complicated control scheme; for those folks, buttons and analogue sticks are alien and terrifying.
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