PC gaming is bigger than ever - and likely bigger than Wii+PS3+360 in 2007

[shio]

Untamoi said:

twesterm said:

 

You know for every story like that you have a story about something on XBLA, PSN, or WiiWare making money?

Braid
Geometry Wars
Warhawk
Pixeljunk Eden
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Penny-Arcade Episode 1
ect.

For some odd reason you're lumping indie games with all PC games and that's just not the case.  Indie games are much cheaper to develop, PC games are not.

Braid is coming to PC and both Strong Bad and Penny-Arcade are on PC.

 

And Geometry Wars too.

@twestern

PC games are significantly cheaper to develop (and let's not forget the higher profit margins). Crysis, for example, had a budget of $22 millions and is far more technically advanced and better than Halo 3, yet Halo had twice the budget of Crysis. heck, MGS4 had 3 times the budget of Crysis, and it's still an inferior game technically and overall (Imo).

The only PC games I could think of maybe having a bigger budget than Crysis are maybe World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online and Spore.