Legend11 on 03 February 2008
| HappySqurriel said: If you look at the line-up of the XBox 360 (past, present and future) most of its high quality third party games are also available on the PC; to a certain extent you can say that the XBox 360 is leeching a lot of support from the PC. In 2009, the XBox 360 will be similar in performance to the minimum requirements of most PC games and in 2010 it will be below the system requirements of most PC games. What this means is that publishers would have to look at today's sales numbers and think it was worthwhile to produce a (potentially expensive) XBox 360 version of their games which seems unlikely due to its sales.Edit: I'm not saying the XBox 360 will see no support, just that they will lose a lot of the support they currently have. |
Based on the games that have been released and the list of games for 2008 in the PC forum (some are very likely 2009) it's unlikely that more than a handful of games will actually push the PC. Considering how lucrative it is now to publish multiplatform games and that an ever increasing number of PC publishers and development studios are working on 360 and PS3 versions of games it's doubtful that the PC will suddenly have a lot of games that will push the PC to such an extent that the console versions will look noticeably worse.
