| JNK said: So scince last year on youtube and on many other gaming related forums people argue about "downgrades" and "bad graphics" and in their opinion, they suffer from the "bad consoles".
I tried to think about this blame from a neutral/developers viewpoint and i came to the conclusion, it isnt justified. Here are my arguments:
1. Pc gaming is relativly unrelevant. More People do play multiplattsform games on consoles. Developer should focus on their biggest market
2. Actual AAA-titles (like Witcher 3) wouldnt be possible at all in this quality without console versions, because the pc sales would never fit the developement costs.
3. There are already alot pc exclusive games but they are mostly looking even worse then multiplattform games on pc.
4. PC gamer dont pay alot for software. Some do pirate, many do use VPN´s/Keystores, Steamsales and co to buy cheap digitally. So when a console gamer pay 60 bucks for a game like witcher 3, a pc gamer will pay only like 10-30 bucks. Even if you substract sonys/microsofts licensing costs, a developer will still earn more money per sold console game as per sold pc game.
So why should PC gamers get a better experience as a console gamer if they buy less copies at all and also pay less per copy? PC gamers should be thankfull that they get mostly slightly better graphics at all. There is no justify for this at all. Scince they pay less for their software, it would be more fair if they get a inferior product.
If a game development have a Budget of 10 mil. Why should anybody spend anything from this budget to make a graphical superior pc version? The money should be used to make a as good as possible experience on all plattforms which is similar on quality on all 3 plattforms. Because: For each graphical pc upgrade, you have to cut off ressources for the consoles versions. There is no infinite budget and anytime when you put ressources/money into something (pc graphics) anything else will suffer. That wouldnt be fair.
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1. Have you even paying attention to the 8th gen so far? More and more PC support every single day, ESPECIALLY when you take into the fact that even pubishers like Sony and Microsoft have put some games that they could have had as exclusive but put them on PC. Just look at games like Street Fighter V, Fable Legends, etc.
2. You should check up on sales of Steam games, because a lot of them do very well there.
3. Can you name any specific exclusive PC Games? I honestly just can't think of any and it's usually up to the developer when developing a PC game whether they want to make it accessable to almost every PC out there or mostly high end PCs.
4. And what about the people that buy console games used? You're also not taking into account that when making a PC game it will usually be sold digitally so that means they won't have to go through the cost of shipping, retail boxes, etc. In fact it probably costs less to release something on PC than on console if you were to take that into account, but who knows.
@ the bolded: What kind of logic is this? PC players deserve to get an inferior product than consoles because they might buy it during a sale? I could easily turn this logic and say that PC gamers deserve a better product than consoles due to how much more they spend on better hardware than console players. Either way what kind of logic do you have there?
