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Zekkyou on 16 July 2014
VanceIX said:
Raze said:
daredevil.shark said:


Jealousy is strong within a certain group of PC gamers. But that jealous makes us happy. The last of us will never come to PC. Lol. I am very delighted.


PS4 emulators exist, for the low price of free. PC gamers can very well play PS4 games, and depending how good the emulator is, close toif not exactly the same quality as PS4. You may be right, a retail version of the game may never come out. But via emulators, EVERY game is playable without a console, from current systems all the way back to the Atari 2600 (and possibly prior to!)

SO, theoretically, yes, PC gamers get to play ANY game they desire, without ever needing a console. In fact, most of the actual emulated games are on torrents, so they are free too. So, it actually means the developer is losing money by NOT making a retail version of the game for PCs.

Neither Dolphin nor PCSX2 have been perfected yet, and we don't have a PS3, 360, hell, we don't even have a 3DS emulator, but we have a PS4 emulator? Damn.

Yeah we have PS4 "emulators"



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ikki5 on 16 July 2014
phaedruss said:
ikki5 said:
phaedruss said:
Isn't a lot of PC gaming revenue coming from LoL? lol


Doubt it, I am pretty sure Steam makes way more than they do as League of Legends is a free to play game and I honestly doubt that the majority of people spend a lot of money on it. Some yeah, but most would probably spend $20-$30 a year even if that.


http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-01-20-league-of-legends-2013-revenue-topped-USD600m-report

 Also, this from the OP-

DFC says that MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) titles like League of Legends and DotA 2 “dominate everything else by an order of magnitude in terms of more usage than other products,” followed by MMOs, strategy games, and shooters.

 

Impressive but... I am pretty sure Steam would be somewhere in the billions per year. Their Steam market alone is them doing nothing at all and making money let alone the fact that they have over 75 million accounts on there which i am pretty sure at least have of those would be buying games through out the year.



Raze on 16 July 2014
BillyBong said:
Raze said:


PS4 emulators exist, for the low price of free. PC gamers can very well play PS4 games, and depending how good the emulator is, close toif not exactly the same quality as PS4. You may be right, a retail version of the game may never come out. But via emulators, EVERY game is playable without a console, from current systems all the way back to the Atari 2600 (and possibly prior to!)

SO, theoretically, yes, PC gamers get to play ANY game they desire, without ever needing a console. In fact, most of the actual emulated games are on torrents, so they are free too. So, it actually means the developer is losing money by NOT making a retail version of the game for PCs.

lol.. good luck with that.  as far as I know, ps2 and og xbox emulation is still unreliable and buggy.  ps3 and 360 emulation are still in infant stages and remains to be seen if they'll ever truly be emulatable..  and yes, though ps4 and x1 share similar architecture to PCs.. it's going to be a long time before they ever get any game ps4/x1 working on a PC, if ever.  so, theorectically, you can possibly enjoy these ps4/x1 games 20 years later.. i'm sure that's going to impact these devs and their pockets by NOT making a retail version of games for PCs.

PS4 emulator - http://ps4emus.com/ Not that I've used it, nor care to, but PS4 emulators already exist, and apparently work. SO I doubt that they're waiting 20 years, maybe 20 weeks? THAT could hurt the devs. 



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Raze on 16 July 2014

 

Emulators? Lol. I dont believe that some peoples ego is so big that they want to play all games at 4k. Will they buy legit games for those emulators? 99% change is no. It is pirates who hide under the shadow of very tiny legit owners talk about emulators. Emulators are a feast of pirates.

 

PC gamers get to play ANY game they desire = They get any thing to play. Is their birth right to do so? Nope. They are kind of snachers who like to bully everyone. Like a bully they think the world revolves aroud themselves.

I'm not sure what you mean by "play all games at 4k"

Since the PS2 era, the way Sony fans have acted on forums and newsgroups, I could easily say the same. Take a look at your signature graphic to get what I mean. I don't know if it's ironic or just hypocritical of what you're saying. It represents exactly what a jealous fan would feel of a game on a rival platform. 



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Raze on 16 July 2014
Zekkyou said:

Yeah we have PS4 "emulators"


yup! - http://ps4emus.com/



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Zekkyou on 16 July 2014
Raze said:
BillyBong said:

lol.. good luck with that.  as far as I know, ps2 and og xbox emulation is still unreliable and buggy.  ps3 and 360 emulation are still in infant stages and remains to be seen if they'll ever truly be emulatable..  and yes, though ps4 and x1 share similar architecture to PCs.. it's going to be a long time before they ever get any game ps4/x1 working on a PC, if ever.  so, theorectically, you can possibly enjoy these ps4/x1 games 20 years later.. i'm sure that's going to impact these devs and their pockets by NOT making a retail version of games for PCs.

PS4 emulator - http://ps4emus.com/ Not that I've used it, nor care to, but PS4 emulators already exist, and apparently work. SO I doubt that they're waiting 20 years, maybe 20 weeks? THAT could hurt the devs. 

Yeeeah that's fake At the very most they've emulated the PS4's home page, but i'm skeptical they've even done that (but rather re created it in something else).

Their claim of "PS4Emus is able to run all PS3, PS2 and PS One games as well!" alone is enough to discredit them.



BillyBong on 16 July 2014
Raze said:

PS4 emulator - http://ps4emus.com/ Not that I've used it, nor care to, but PS4 emulators already exist, and apparently work. SO I doubt that they're waiting 20 years, maybe 20 weeks? THAT could hurt the devs. 


lol.. seriously?  real programmers have yet to fully emulate the ps2.. are at infant stages on ps3.. and yet that site can already emulate everything from a ps1-ps4. bwahaha..  as for those screenshots.. are you serious?  they have screenshots of the "emu" running a game that isn't even released yet, two shots running a game that's clearly online MP, and a dashboard shot of the user clearly logged into his PSN account.. in other words.. you got TROLLED.



Man.. I hate it when your girl has to leave my place to come back to you..

BillyBong on 16 July 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
BillyBong said:
Raze said:

PS4 emulator - http://ps4emus.com/ Not that I've used it, nor care to, but PS4 emulators already exist, and apparently work. SO I doubt that they're waiting 20 years, maybe 20 weeks? THAT could hurt the devs. 


lol.. seriously?  real programmers have yet to fully emulate the ps2.. are at infant stages on ps3.. and yet that site can already emulate everything from a ps1-ps4. bwahaha..  as for those screenshots.. are you serious?  they have screenshots of the "emu" running a game that isn't even released yet, two shots running a game that's clearly online MP, and a dashboard shot of the user clearly logged into his PSN account.. in other words.. you got TROLLED.

Don't forget the Titanfall screenshot.... obviously fake


not fake.. obviously they got their hands on the ps4 version that was never released..



Man.. I hate it when your girl has to leave my place to come back to you..

DanneSandin on 16 July 2014

Being a strategy gamer myself I love PC, that coupled with Nintendo covers all the needs I have. And it's free online! There's just a few exclusives I want on the other consoles (mostly PS exclusives). All in all I'm happy to see PCs doing so well!!



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