| vivster said: Yes. PC and consoles are seperate markets. A game being also out on PC has next to no influence on its sales on consoles. |
No, PC and consoles were seperate markets in the past.
They have grown together more and more each year for over a decade. Consoles have adopted many features of PCs over the years, some positive (online multiplayer, HDD, multimedia features, internet browser, patches...), some negative (release of unfinished games, boot times, loading times in games...)
Contemporary, PCs got a lot more living-room-friendly (smaller PC cases, fast portable gaming laptops, noise reduction, HDMI-connectivity, gamepad-support for most games, TV-friendly and gamepad-friendly GUIs...)
And do you really believe there is next to no influence between PC and console game sales, when most games are multiplatform developments? The arbitrary line between PCs and consoles already got blurry, it will get even blurrier with the launch of "Steam machines".
