naznatips on 25 January 2008
| RPGJock said: There are three factors why PC games are not selling well.... 1) Piracy. It is obvious with Internet being open as it is today, that piracy has become an easier market to get games vs shelling 40-50 buck for it. 2)MMOs. The dedication that it take play these games can monoplize playing time and cash flow (subscriptions) vs other games that don't require it. 3)Microsoft. When they entered the game console world, they were determined to bring PC gaming to the console. They enticed developers, Ensemble, Bioware, Epic, Valve, to make games for the console which they didn't really want to do because of programming for a console is lot different for a PC and didn't translate very well. But Microsoft had the tools (DirectX tools) help with the transition. It became more easier and less costly to put a game out for both the PC and Xbox. Then came Halo, and it showed that the shooter market could work on the console. Then XBox Live showed that you could play games online almost as well on PC, if not sometimes better. It removed the fact that you had to upgrade each year for a new system, video card, or whatever get to play the game. Now its been almost 6 years with Microsoft in the consoles and the kids that would have played game on the PC because it was cooler are playing on XBox Live and soon on the PSN or Wii Online channel. Shooters and Western RPGs have gone to the consoles, with Microsoft trying to pull RTS and MMO also. With XBLA, Virtual Console, and PS Store, casual PC games are even starting to go to consoles. PC gaming will survive in some form, but there needs be a reason to why it would be better to play on the PC vs on a Console. And not because of high end graphics. The even Wii proves thats not a good enough reason anymore. |
The better reason is the controls... hence The Orange Box selling over 5 times as much on PC as it did on consoles, and for the 50th time the PC is not doing poorly. Did you bother reading the rest of the topic?
