| Nintendownsmii said: They do have a point though, those PC gamers. 512mb of ram vs what is now the standard 1gb for PCs. I wonder wich allows more features? |
Comparing the tech specs of a console and your average PC is misleading. You also have to consider how much RAM Windows Vista eats up, not to mention anything else that's running in the background. (Here's a hint: A lot.)
@ famousringo: "Dumbing down" control complexity is seldom a bad thing. Most PC developers' "complex controls" just involve plunking down obscure commands on to arbitrary hotkeys. Certain game genres like RTSes aside, console controls are usually more elegant and intuitive than keyboard/mouse, and that's what matters.
Also, console games may have been "dumbed down in terms of adult content" back in the SNES days, but certainly not today. Killer7 and God Of War had their infamous sex scenes, Manhunt 2 would have been one of the goriest games ever made if the ESRB hadn't gone insane over it, half the characters in half the games out there curse up a storm... Heck, don't even get me started on the "adult content" in, say, Silent Hill 2. The only PC exclusive that I can think of to have so much "adult content" in recent memory is The Witcher.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
