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Kasz216 said:

Staude said:

Kasz216 said:

Staude said:

huaxiong90 said:

jefforange89 said:

JaggedSac said:

http://www.vg247.com/2009/10/28/brink-boss-pc-only-projects-cannot-justify-triple-a-budgets/

Brink boss – PC-only sales cannot “justify” triple-A budgets

Splash Damage boss Paul Wedgwood has said that PC-only projects simply cannot attract enough money from publishers to create triple-A results.

“About two or three years ago we realised that we really wouldn’t survive if we only made PC games, since purely making PC games was incompatible with our goal of making triple-A games,” said the developer, demoing current project Brink yesterday at the EG Expo in Leeds.

“You just can’t get the publisher budget to ever [use] an orchestra in London, and then go and record at Abbey Road and get the best voice actors if you’re only going to release on the PC, where there isn’t the sales to justify that kind of work.”

Wedgwood added: “Because we needed to make that transition, I started playing console games,” and that he now plays “a lot more time playing console stuff” than PC games.

Wedgwood’s background is from the PC mod scene. He told the Expo audience that he originally resisted console gaming because he considered himself to be “hardcore PC guy,” but “loved it” and got “more and more into it”.

For the record, Brink looks properly, properly awesome. Hopefully we’ll be able to show it to you soon. It’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 next spring.

Okay, and how many "AAA" titles stay exclusive on either PS3 or 360 that are both not published by m$ or Sony?

MGS4 is perhaps the only example I can I think of.

Valkyria Chronicles. Yakuza 3.

Really?  What's your definition of Triple A game.

If Valkyria Chronicles cost what a game he's talking about costs... it must of lost a lot of money.  Same for Yakuza 3 actually.

I'd guess CoD4 PC sold more the 500K.

Additionally, I don't see how this is going to stop piracy at all.  If anything they'll just have pirates using THEIR matchmaker servers costing THEM money rather then it being some third party clan that pays money for a server.

A Awesome game.

I haven't played the full valkyria though and my last yakuza was yakuza 2. So I can't comment fully on them.

If Tekken 6 was still exclusive I would also put it in this category... Cause it's awesome.

That isn't the context it was used here.  So, such a comment is pointless.

oh no ! A pointless post on a forum !

Regardless, I initially thought VC was above 90. But since you asked how I define it, I just answered that.