r505Matt said:
Scoobes said:
Lol, it happens. That's the biggest problem when debating PC sales, it's very difficult (currently) to track PC sales. We can estimate sales of one area (e.g. Steam) but it's only an estimation and only part of the overall equation. We really have no clue as to how well or badly a PC game might sell. It would be nice to have more sales data for PC and I do think it'll come in the future, but until then we have to keep making educated guesses.
One educated guess (a view common among PC gamers), and an explaination as to why console games seem to sell better, is that PC games are far less front-loaded than there console counter parts. Take a game like Starcraft for instance which has wracked up 10 million sales and continues to sell. However, it took nearly 10 yrs of sustained sales to get to that figure. That's the thing with PC games, they're pretty much always backwards compatible and now all available for digital download, so will always have a very long shelf-life.
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They aren't backwards compatible!!! Dammit, I have this old game "Are we there yet" best little puzzle game I've ever played, I can't play it even with emulators =(
I think the processor doesn't know what to do with it. =(
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There is always a way! It just might take some work to figure out how, lol.
This may seem like a stupid question but have you tried DosBox? The majority of MSDos era games tend to work if you use DosBox. I managed to get the old elder scrolls games working that way.
