only777 said:
But really, I don't see how having one console affects the studios that make the games. Remember the PS2 era? The shear amoutn of greatness that came out of that domination shows that Sony beinging complete control (for the second gen in a row at that point) didn't make a studios that are nothing to do with Sony put out bad PS2 games. Creative freedom comes from having platform freedom. Puting restrictions on studios and makiong games multiplat, reduces graphics to the lowest quality so it suits the lower powered machine. Steam has pretty much the PC digital market to itself, see how bad that's got. No? That because people can do more because they know all the customers are in one place. |
Remember what happened after the PS2? Or the Xbox 360? MS and Sony thought they could do anything they wanted, luckily their competitors pretty much prevented full blown disaster. The 6th gen was great not just because of the PS2 but because the 3 other consoles were also trying their hardest to compete but you don't need total domination for that, look at the 4th gen or 7th gen.
Who is forcing games to be multiplat? Are some games multiplat because one of the console manufactors paid them? Yeah, but chances are games are multiplat because their audience is playing on multiple platforms. I hate to say it but if you're so concerned that the graphics quality of games will be in danger of being multiplat then why isn't every game a PC exculsive? Or better yet if this was the 6th gen then why wasn't every game a Xbox exculsive?
Steam doesn't have a monopoly (not even a digital monopoly because of PSN and XBL) because their competitors are the consoles along with Origin and other services. Valve doesn't just do whatever because they want to keep customers here rather than going to consoles or rival services.
