| Onyxmeth said: Nobody is ignoring it as a gaming platform. We're ignoring it as a console. We don't sit here and compare the Nintendo DS library to the Xbox 360 library. We don't sit here and compare the PC library to the mobile phone library. Apples and oranges. Wii, 360 and PS3 are apples. They all taste very similiar. PC is an orange. It tastes similiar because it's a fruit, but has it's own distinct taste. Some people like apples over oranges. Some like oranges over apples. Some like both equally. You just don't compare them. They are not equal. Get it? Just because Bioshock is on PC and 360 does not make it a multiplatform game. It is an exclusive on each machine. Same as the PC game Zuma. It is an exclusive on the PC. Now another version of Zuma is on mobile phones. That version is exclusive. Another version resides on the 360. That version is exclusive.(Sue me if PSN has Zuma on it, because I don't know. Just trying to make a point) |
The PC is far more closely related to the Xbox 360 and PS3 than the Wii is. If you can boot up the exact same game on 2 different consoles, guess what? Those consoles are related. Both from a sales and gaming standpoint. I played through Bioshock on PC. My friend played through Bioshock on 360. It took both of us 20 hours. We both saw the same dialogue, fought the same big daddies, the same bosses, and the same plot. My version looked a little better, but it was the same game.
Now comparing a Wii verison to a PS3 and 360 version is different, because the design of the game is actually different, but the HD consoles and the PC are absolutely in direct market competition. That said, it doesn't hurt Microsoft that most of the games they have on 360 are also on PC, because the PC is basically their platform as well. It does hurt 360 sales though.
