Scoobes said:
Or it shows how popular PC is on this website. I don't doubt the 360 version will outsell the PC version, but we're on a video games site here. The PC is the one machine we can all but gaurantee everyone has and on a games site, there will be a dispropotionate number of core PC fans for whom gaming will be a significant hobby for them (relative to the mainstream sites and media). @ italics Flawed analogy. Whilst fable may be a heavily console based game, the original was on PC and as a WRPG is actually very at home on the PC (where WRPGs are quite popular). It might not port well but it's still in a popular genre on PC, and these are all issues for the future. Street Fighter is a beat-em-up, a genre which has never been popular on PC. A fairer comparison would have been something like Fallout New Vegas, and I think you'd get similar results to the poll above. |
On your point about how popular the pc is on this website. You could get away with your comments if this site didn't keep up with what forums are being created and with how many people are commenting on them making them hot topics. Compare the console threads and forums with the pc ones.
No one seems to be commenting as frequently in the pc forum and no one seems to be creating topics that deal with the pc. If the pc was so popular on this site like you claim then its topics would dominate this site and make the hot topics more often. Click on your home page where it shows the hot topics and tell me how many do you see for the pc.
-On your point #2 I said fable 1 was on the pc but it came 1 year later and it received the majority of its sales on the xbox. Even if WRPGs are popular on the Pc Fable is still heavily console based which many core Pc fans usually hate because they say it's dumbed down for consoles and doesn't have all of the features that they have come to expect in a wrpg on the pc.
You brought up Fallout which is a perfect example. Fallout 3 was made with consoles heavily in mind. Ask any core pc fan what they thought about Fallout 3 when compared to Fallout 2 and most will tell you it was crap because it was dumbed down for consoles.







