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your mother on 27 June 2007
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Bodhesatva said:
BenKenobi88 said:

What's with the PC dissing? It's got plenty of exclusive games, that are only now getting ported to consoles.

Half Life 2 games are definitive on the PC...I'd honestly say you're stupid to buy those games on a console...it's so perfectly designed for PCs, and the modding capabilities are endless.

Crysis is definitely a "next-gen" PC exclusive.

Honestly...there's a few good exclusive PC games out there...not many, but at least a few.

Most of the appeal for PC games for me is that you can adjust the options and fine-tune graphics as much as you want. If you have a better computer, you have better graphics...once it's on a console, you can't improve the graphics later. I played Half Life 2 for the first time on a fairly crappy computer...yet it still looked amazing to me. Later I got a much better computer, and now the game and it's many Source mods look very good.

I could turn the same argument back to a PS3 owner and ask what the good-looking, top-notch PS3 exclusives are. I wouldn't get many answers.


There's a couple mistakes that people are making, Ben.

First and foremost, there are a LOT of PC exclusives. In fact, looking at the "Exclusive Arms Race", you can see that PC exclusives aren't listed because they would absolutely dwarf the consoles in sheer number of titles -- NOT because there are too few. Of course, this includes mods (such as Counter Strike) and all sorts of little, simple games.

If we're only going to include games with excellent graphics, then we are effectively saying: "Yeah, PC's have better graphics, but where are the exclusive games? Why would I buy a PC for a smaller games selection?" People should recognize that this precise argument could be turned on the PS3. The exclusive games selection, both current and upcoming, is noticably smaller for the system than the Wii.

So. Sure, the PS3 has better graphics, but where are the exclusive games? Why would I buy a PS3 for a smaller games selection?

 



Edit: Currently the Exclusive Arms Race page isn't loading for me; that's where the link goes to when the site comes back up though.

Try the ESRB - the total amount of games among ALL current-gen consoles, portable or not (PS3, Xbox360, Wii, DS, PSP), stands at 1180 titles.

Expand that list to cover ALL consoles, past and present, from the three top manufacturers (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft) and you get 6325 titles.

There are a total of 6746 games for the Wintel platform.

Edit: Come to think of it, if you want your volume of console games to *nearly* match that of the PC you would have to buy every single Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft console. The cost of purchasing all those consoles (Xbox, Xbox360, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, GB, GBA, Virtual Boy), would probably match the cost of a pretty nice PC. it'd be a hell of a collection, though.