There's a reason there's tons of people playing Starcraft 1 to this very day, you know.

(Psst, it's still good, the formula that is.)

thrones

Because it doesn't require high system specs, its the reason why people in poorer countries play these OLD computer games.

On Topic: Because RTS is the only genre that PC is the best at.

:lol: Awesome joke thread.foxhound_fox

You liek Reboot, LOL

In november 2005 the Xbox360 was launched at £280...

Now lets say someone got a similarly powered PC:

X1900XT-the first GPU VERY similar to the 360 that could do HDR and AA at the same time.... and it was at £300

AMD 3800 x2-One of the reasonably priced dual core CPUs....started at £120

2gb DDR2 RAM- while still inits begginning the 553 version was decent...at £80

Now ill lump Mobo/Case/HDD/DVD/PSU/M-K/OS in one part since their price doesnt flunctuate that much....at £200

PS: The display is out of question since the 360 doesnt come with an HDTV...

The above machine started at £850 including assembly....

Now lets see what happened in the following nearly 3 years...

Lets say that in 2006 both the PC user and the console user BOUGHT 6 NON RENTABLE games (I mean games that have more than 5 hours of gameplay/a rarity in the console world) these costed the PC user £150...while the console user forked £300 plus £30 on XBL ....

In 2007 same story again £150 for the PC and £330 for the console...

By 2008 the console user had spent nearly £990 on games while the PC user spent £450....Lets see in total:

PC: £850+£450= £1300

Xbox360: £280+£990= £1270

In the above the console is assumed to be bought at DAY OF RELEASE amongst INSANE SHORTAGES and HUGE EBAY SCAMS....The RROD is NOT CALCULATED as NOT calculated are all the rip offs that take place in XBL as DLC....

Last I DARE any lemming to find a game that runs on the 360 THAT will not run on the SAME settings as the 360 on the above PC....

True_Gamer_

What 6 worthwhile PC games came out during those 3 years???

[QUOTE="Cranler"]

When demand drops, so do prices. Dont know why your arguing otherwise.

AdrianWerner

Console games sell out and people ahve to wait for more copies to arrive : (, plus the price drops after a million copies and they become Player's Choice games.

On the other hand with PC, companies who use DD can inflate the price as they please, look at the price between the retail and online version of SoaSE for example...

"Expansion packs aren't full games" is negative criteria that shouldn't be used? Thats hardly a deciding factor in someones choice in buying a game or not.

Its negative for trying to add it as a separate AAA game, but can you blame the hermits for such desperate tactics?

PC: 76 (52)360: 60 (10)PS3: 36 (4)Wii: 18 (6)

How much bigger is the PC as a viable platform? Not much...