| Strategyking92 said: the problem, is that most of those players play mmo's, and pirate software. So publishers rarely get blockbusters on the PC. Maybe that's why call of duty moved to consoles? anyway, not everyone even has a high end PC to play modern games (maybe last gen games) and people know consoles are the cheaper option, so they get a console to play games on. |
First, I'm not sure why gamers playing MMO's is bad, since it gives a better cut of profits for the developers in question. And true, many people are pirates, which is terrible.
But I don't understand the blockbusters bit. If by 'blockbusters' you mean console multi-million sellers, then you're wrong. The only 'blockbusters' that don't show up on PC are either first-party games or japanese oriented games(such as jRPGs). There are some exceptions of course.
If you're saying that very few PC games are multi-million sellers, how can you be so sure? Digital Distribution is increasing more and more than ever, with developers like Popcap selling 5 millions copies of Bejeweled on PC through DD. PC games are also cheaper to develop, and more profitable for every copy sold. World of Warcraft has made more profit than Rockstar did with the entire GTA series.
PC games are also very expansion friendly. The Sims sold 100 millions with the expansions. Guild Wars sold 5 millions with expansions. And so on.
It's Funny you mentioned Call of Duty. Yes, it moved from PC to PC+Consoles, but Call of Duty 4 is being a smashing success on PC, and by the end of it's lifetime I'm betting the PC version will have outsold the PS3+360 versions combined.
PC has actually been getting more exclusives than Wii+PS3+360 combined, so I don't see how it's all bad. You only need to look at PC's 2008 list to notice how much better the PC exclusives are than any console.
And Console gaming is not cheaper. For $500 you can build a Gaming PC that will play games better than 360 or PS3 ever could. You also save ALOT of money on PC games, atleast $10 for every game bought. And you don't need to pay to play, like what Xbox Live is doing.
