Retail Sales of PC Games Dropped 14% in 2008

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shio said:

Final-Fan said:

shio said:
And PC games don't usually have huge budgets because they're cheaper to develop and spend little on advertisement. See Crysis, which only cost $22 millions, and is far, far more technically advanced than any console game.

That's because much of the cost of console games is in squeezing more performance out of the available hardware, whereas in the case of Crysis it seems as if they said, "Fuck it, juice the graphics/physics and raise the requirements!"

That's not true though. Crysis is extremely well optimized, and the minimum requirements show that. Of course you still need a beast to max the game, but that's understandable.

Sorry, I didn't mean to argue that they didn't optimize it (I'll leave that debate for people with more knowledge of that situation); I just meant to say that Crysis' technical superiority isn't due to PC being easier to develop for per se but rather to the fact that PC developers have the option of jacking up the hardware requirements to accomodate their beastly game -- whereas Killzone 2 (for example) does not have that option.