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mantlepiecek on 26 February 2011
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Gnizmo said:
mantlepiecek said:

Depends. Everyone has a PC, at least everyone who has a console. The moment a game releases, they may not be able to play it on their PC, but they can definitely upgrade the system later on for cheap.


Blatant falsehood. Computer parts are not legos. Every piece cannot go wherever it feels like all willy nilly. A system from 7 years ago would serve plenty fine as an internet machine, but not amount of upgrading could ever get it to play Crysis 2 well. The parts simply didn't exist at the time which means you have to build a whole new system. Gaming PC is not the same as just a PC. Gaming PCs will set you back an amount comparable to a console if you esnt to play the latest games.

 

For eg.: If someone wants to play Mass effect 1 now, they won't necessarily go and buy a 360 because chances are if they invested that much on their PC to upgrade it, they would definitely be able to play all the newer games as well.

Which is why console exclusives are never equal to true exclusives and shouldn't be considered as equals. But console exclusives do matter if you are more interested in console gaming or in the true exclusives of a particular system.

 

And this matters because? Does a game existing on another platform harm the game in some manner? Would Heavy Rain be a worse game if it magically could be played by the 360, Wii, phones, or toasters?


I am not sure where you think upgrading is that expensive, I just upgraded my RAM for 50 dollars.

You don't have to upgrade everything. An old internet machine won't be able to run firefox properly (I know this because I have one), so it would be some time before such a person gets a new PC anyway.

On my second point, you took it the wrong way. What I meant was the equality in attracting a gamer, that is the worth in a console's library. Is red dead redemption an exclusive because its not on the PC?

Is extraction an exclusive because its not on the 360? Is okami a wii exclusive because its not on the PS3/360?

No. There are multiple systems and multiple ways of playing games, nowadays all you need is a pre-order of Homefront to get a new gaming system (onlive).