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okr on 09 September 2010
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themanwithnoname said:
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GodOfWar_3ever said:

Where the hell has he said xbox ? Other platforms doesn't necessarily mean the 360. Selective journalism to gather hits FTW !

They made an assumption but is it a bad one? I mean looking at the state of PC gaming that would hardly open them up to a massive new audience.

Looking at the kind of games they make I dunno if they'll want to go for the Wii market. That leaves PS3 and 360.

but the PC is the home of the adventure game, and adventure (excluding "action" adventures, read shooters/brawlers with adventuring) games do better on PC than any other platform so it is logical that the latest branch in the genre would come to the PC lol.

They used to do well on PC. But Heavy Rain sales show where a lot of potential is.

Do you think a future game similar to Heavy Rain would do better on PC than on xbox 360?

Yes.

Why.

Female audience.

Did I miss the news that girls don't own Xboxes, or that a large portion of the people buying Heavy Rain were female?

I don't think there's a gaming system on the market that has a higher percentage of male owners than the 360. I don't know the ratio but I wouldn't be suprsised if 80 to 90% of 360 owners are male.
I didn't say a large portion of the people buying HR were female. I'm saying that imo many women would love HR (and I bet some already do). Many women love the broad genre of graphic adventure games (incl. all subgenres from classic p&c games to Prof. Layton puzzle style to the modern browser "casual" adventures to interactive movies - see also The Sims franchise which imo and fortunately is not a mere boring life sim anymore but an adventure game in soap opera style). MANY women love crime and thriller stories and games based on them (e.g. CSI games sell quite good on all systems), that's why I think many women would be interested in HR or a similar successor if it would run on their PCs/laptops. Plus: The mainstream thriller story of David Cage's last game would cater even more to the female audience than to the male. And where are the largest female gamer audiences these days? Clearly on PC (and on DS/Wii).