| BillyBong said: eh.. PC gaming has always been niche. Mostly RTS, Life Sims, MOBA, & MMOs that come to mind that finds occasional success. Sure graphics and fps is great when talking about PC gaming capabilities, but most gamers could care less about paying out the ass to achieve such graphical fidelity.. and even then, most those games are graphic pretty.. but game play lacking. there's a reason why AAA/high budget games and devs tend to stick with or end up on consoles... they are more likely to guarantee sales there to recoup development cost/make profit. Also, with AAA and High Budget games on PC, they can only reach a small number of audience because the majority of PC gamers don't meet the minimum required specs to play such games. What AAA game on PC has ever achieved parity/surpassed in sales compared to their console counterparts? Outside of RTS, Sims, MOBA, & MMOs, nothing.. Not saying that PC gaming is bad, but I personally think PC gaming has always been niche. |
Well, your logic is flawed and you're also just plain wrong in places.
Firstly, MMO's and MOBA are big business that you just conveniently ignore because it doesn't fit your view. There are literally millions of people that play these titles and they're constantly evolving. How any game that has millions of people playing and paying large amounts of money to play can be considered niche is beyond me.
Using your logic you could just say "outside of FPS, sports games, beat-em ups and platformers nothing sells better than PC". It's flawed logic and plain wrong.
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Most Valve games sold better on PC (see below), as did Diablo 3, Witcher games, Metro, some Battlefield titles etc. Often, the PC version sells similar numbers to one of the console versions.
