Predictions for 2009

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TheBigFatJ said:

PalmiNio said:

Yes PC's are superior but releasing a game on PS3/360 allways gives superior sales as we can clearly see from the stats.

You're wrong. No RTS game and no MMO ever even came close on console to how well they've done on PC. I'm talking about generating more than 20x as much money on PC as they ever, ever have on consoles. It looks like you got your stats wrong. WoW alone has generated 1.5 billion dollars.

So why bother playing with the toys? It's a waste of Blizzard's development time. Blizzard will have more sales in Korea alone for SC2 than it ever would have on all consoles combined. Several time as many sales.

The Wii, at least, could control an RTS game. But the 360 and PS3 have control that's too dumbed down to handle anything past a basic shooter.

And blizzard's games will be around and played well after this current generation of consoles is gone. Starcraft from 1997 is still played by thousands daily online. Warcraft 3 is played by hundreds of thousands online. WoW is played by ten million online. It was around before this generation of consoles and it will be around after.

WoW alone will make more profit than the PS3 in its lifetime.

Wow. What makes you think the Wii has the sheer processing power to handle Starcraft II? It has no keyboard, so no hotkeys, motion sensing is no replacement for a mouse. There's a reason RTS has stayed on PC all of these years, and it's because RTS only works with Keyboard and Mouse.

Diablo III, on the other hand, would work great on PS360. The controllers are designed to play RPGs (yes, they can play more than a "basic shooter", try and play Assassin's Creed on PC and you'll see what I mean) and it would definitely boost sales. The PC is not really run by any one company, so they have nothing to gain from making it PC exclusive. Plus, they've said they're looking into console versions (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55256)