| cAPSLOCK said: Id has always been primarily focused on PC, Epic just proved with the superior version of Gears who gets the prime version and who gets the slop. Mass Effect ...coming soon to PC, only bigger and better ... If you think Lucasarts is going to dumb down Star Wars for the PC I don't even know what to say. Have you even seen the tech demos for Alan Wake and the new Star Wars game for PC? On the PC pushing tech is not a fad, it's a gaming rule of law. Orange box is using an engine (source) from 2002/2003. Bioshock dx10 looks a LOT better on PC. Unreal Engine 3 (if Gears is any indication) is the same as Bioshock, CoD4 isn't even hi def on 360 The thing this tech has been out over a year, Crysis is just PC's way of saying "we're back." This caliber of games are coming and will be more common. Consoles will start getting the "Wii version" of PC games like they did in the late 90s. Sure some games will be multi platform, but the the PC version will be the superior one. Computer gaming has ALWAYS been about pushing the limits. Consoles are definitely NOT calling the shots now, especially in a generation when the PC wannabe consoles are getting curb stomped by the Wii. |
It's already happening. So Bioshock looks a lot better? I tell you what, post pictures from the PC and 360 versions of the game and we'll see if anyone can tell them apart. Gears of War is the same thing, post pictures from the same area from both versions and lets see if the PC version is vastly better looking.
Crysis isn't the PC's way of saying "we're back.", it's the game that shows just what is happening to PC gaming. Pretty much everything else on the platform isn't anywhere near it and likely won't be until the successors to the 360 and PS3 come out.
If you don't think consoles are calling the shots you should look at comments made by people at Id and Epic. As for Star Wars and Alan Wake I'll call it now, they won't look significantly better on PC than they will on consoles (excluding the Wii in Star Wars' case). Sure people will be able to play them at 100fps at very high resolutions on high end PCs but that won't change the fact that they won't look a lot better like PC games used to in the past when compared to console games.
As for the curb stomp by the Wii, it doesn't change the fact that because of piracy and other reasons consoles are growing in importance to PC developers. Just look at the number of games that are listed as simultaneous( or near to it) releases for PC/360 or PC/PS3 or PC/360/PS3 , it's far more common than simultaneous releases on PC/Xbox or PC/PS2 ever were.
