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theprof00 on 12 February 2010
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twesterm said:
theprof00 said:
microsoft must be learning something from sony here. Time to stop porting all the 360 games to pc, because nobody is going to buy your systems if your system sellers are on a platform they already own.

How many copies do you think PC games sell that aren't Sims, Halo, or WoW?  Even if Alan Wake did sell on the PC I doubt it would sell over 100k.

They probably just decided it wasn't worth their time to continue working on both versions.  I imagine that game already has a giant budget so they probably want to save money however they can without decreasing the overall quality.  By cutting the PC version they probably saved themselves a lot of money and allowed them to focus solely on the 360 version.

100k copies is 2-5M$.. that should be less of the cost of a port right? Have I also been misinformed in the past from vgc members that all 360 games are developed on the pc and that the two platforms are so similar that pc release requires only a nod?

Even if it's not that simple, wouldn't you make money on that investment? Porting couldn't cost that much...

On top of that, the decision thwarts pirates who own 360s and would rather download the game than pay for it on their console..and it's not just Alan Wake, there've been a lot of announcements of 360 games not making it to the pc. It smells like change is in the air.