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S.T.A.G.E. on 07 August 2008
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naznatips said:
Mendicate Bias said:
naznatips said:

No, it doesn't. The PC is a gaming platform playing the same game as the consoles (often for less cost). PC games effect console sales, and buyer perception. Valve games will never be exclusive to a console, because they are PC games. The console versions are just cheap ports. When you call a cheap port of something exclusive, you only make yourself look dumb.

 

Naznatip could you show me some data proving that PC gaming effects console sales? I'm not doubting you I just want to see how much of a relationship the two platforms have in terms of sales.

 

You can't get concrete data on PC sales since so much of it is digital, but there is certainly a lot of evidence of influence. For example, the 360's sales in Europe are much lower than the PS3's, despite the large price difference. One factor that may be contributing to this is that Europe is a strong PC market, and the 360 shares a lot more games with the PC than the PS3 does.

But, really, logic is the best defense of this argument. Logically if you offer the same games on 2 different platforms, the sales of one are going to affect the other. When a PC developer outsources a port of their games to a console, you don't call that an exclusive game, because it's not an exclusive game. It's one of multiple platforms where people can play it. Not only that, but Microsoft and Sony designed the PS3 and 360 to try and compete with the PC. Heavy graphics and physics focus, large online systems, multimedia, web-browsers. That's exactly the market they are trying to go for, and it makes PC their direct competitor.

And no, Microsoft doesn't profit off PC game sales other than their own first party stuff.

 

1st party games for consoles that go on PC's are STILL considered exclusive, because only consoles individually war with each other. It's only exclusive in the console realm.