12 Ways Consoles Are Hurting PC Gaming

[Ail]

irstupid said:

Ail said:

I have to disagree with blaming consoles for the fact that most PC games don't use cutting edge graphics.

Fact is that despite what the author is trying to say, not every PC gamer has a cutting edge machine.

 

Lets not kid ourselves, the most successfull PC developer is Blizzard, last I checked they didn't release their games on consoles so that's not what is holding them back and despite that their games don't go full out using every last bit of power on your machine.

The reason is simple, they know that to have broad appeal you can't target the high end PC only...

computer games come out with low to insane levels of graphics.  hell witcher 2 right now on ultimate low and low resolution looks like a ps1 game, meanwhile i'm not sure if anyoen has a computer that can run it on its maximum settings and resolution.

and guess waht, that game cost a fraction to make as what most hd console games cost.  so do they have to solely target the uber high end pc's?  no, that is the beauty of pc games, you can set your own graphics so that you can run it optimally.

 

edit: and i love how so many of you say PC gamers are complaining.  Well duh, but its not a selfish whine.  Most of our whinning is when you change things for the worse.  We aren't asking for the impossible.  The most common is one he already mentioned.  MENU control.  I mean wtf, we have a perfectly good mouse and plenty of keys, why restrict us to using arrow keys and pushing S or enter, or whatever we set it up to be.  Or hell even worse, NOT letting us set up buttons to what we want.  We dont' care if a game is on PC, 360, PS3, Wii, Ds or you name it.  We just don't want you shitting on us.  if you want to keep graphics back so that you can easily port to all 3 systems or wahtever that is fine, but don't gimp our controls or menu.

haven't you heard ?

The mouse is dead. the future is touchscreen. ( that's the cool aid Apple has been selling and from what i hear it's pretty successfull...)