zarx said:
Mr Puggsly said:
d0nni3 said:
Ubisoft, EA and capcom would be better placed in the PC market if they didn't make dodgy ports of the console versions to the PC.
EA's biggest franchise is FIFA the pc version has only just been bought into line with the console versions in terms of quality if these companys expect people to buy there products then they need to ensure quality before release. Capcom are terrible at this as well having played DMC and RE's on the PC then Playstation you can see how much they really cared about the PC version
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Capcom, EA, and Ubisoft put out a ton of software and some work better than others. Companies like Blizzard and Valve don't put out much and even their games can be buggy or resource hogs for sub par graphics.
Fifa won't sell nearly as well as the console ports even if they improved it for the PC. I've played a lot of Capcom games over the years on the PC and most worked great. Like I said though, some may work better than others. Also their older games don't work well on newer releases of Windows, but that's common.
If consumers are unhappy with the quality of a game, they don't have to buy it. Video games aren't forced on people. However, people shouldn't be getting them for free either. I recall Capcom saying they were happy with the PC sales of Street Fighter 4, but they were unhappy with how many people were getting it free.
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Capcom put out little PC software and most of what they do put out is delayed or shodilly ported and all are designed for consoles first, Ubisoft put out a lot of shodally ported, console led, months late ports and games with draconian DRM.
EA are changing to put more on attention to PC but still mostly console led design, they do however have some of their most successful games only on PC like the Sims so they are a bad example for your argument.
Graphics are not as important as gameplay, you can give your PC port of your console game enhanced graphics on PC but it still won't sell if you keep the console led gameplay and UI.
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I whole heartedly agree that graphics don't trump gameplay but I'm sure you've heard the expression you eat with your eyes first, right?
As much as we don't like to admit it, graphics matter a lot. A game may be fun as Hell but if it doesn't look good it's going to have a hard time selling. Yes, there are extreme examples like Minecraft (though you could just call that a unique art style), other games like Braid or Limbo would have gone completely unnoticed if they hadn't concentrated so hard on their style. Other games like BattleField 3 would be left in the shooter waste land if it weren't stand out graphics wise.
You may be enlightened enough to know that graphics don't matter and you play all those indie darlines knowing it's the gameplay that is making them special, but that doesn't make the money and making games is only about making money.
