Why are console games so much more expensive than PC games?

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Username2324 said:
PC games are cheaper because the developers don't have to optimize the game nearly as much. Meaning they are not limited by one specification, if they want to use more power they can, they don't have to begin compressing stuff, or lowering quality.

 

Errr, Blizzard, Valve, The Assembly team, etc, all of them try to optimize the code as much as posible since the PCs are made by multiple combinations of ram, cpus and graphics cards...

Is cheaper due to the inexpensive requeriments to build a game, you don't need dev kits, or especial training to start with it, and since you don't have to change of plataform every five years or for the next tittle, you can keep some things with the time and eventually start to replace them...