Turkish said:
Q: Why do you think it is that we don't see successful MMOs on consoles? It's been the realm of PC for a long time now, but console players want to play, right? Is it the game balancing, the mechanics or the hardware? Why have we not seen it? Matt Firor: It's the classic desk vs. couch argument, but it is blurring over time. The current-gen and previous-gen MMOs were all about using the keyboard and mouse, and sure, everyone used things like Ventrilo and other voice chat services, but that only works in a small group. A lot of that has been thanks to design problems that people haven't focused on a lot, such as typing and controlling at the same time. The 360, when announced was a pretty ridiculously cool device, but it is not so good anymore compared to PCs and even when it was announced PCs were still better than it. The technology was a little limiting for the size and scope of the world you could have. It mostly comes down to PCs being wide open. Online game development is all about doing whatever you want, pushing limitations, and it's just easier to do on an open platform. Someday, it may all change. |
Exactly that. Voice chat works in small raids but talking to everyone in the zone is not going to work with voice chat.
Plus it's harder to read the text scrolling by on a tv and/or the UI will take up too much space to keep it all readable.
During raids I used to have 4 different text windows open next to following health and mana levels of 20 people and have enough room left over in high enough resolution to see what's going on around me.
Anyway it's not just the 360, this gen has gone on long enough. I don't really like moving the pc over and dealing with windows etc, but since interesting new console games are becoming harder to find, I also can't resist Steam any longer. I don't see anything I'm interested in coming out until Forza Horizon. So I'll plug the HDMI cable in the pc, connect the ps3 controller with usb and play games for $5 to $10 dollars instead. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has skipped plenty of games that they were interested in but didn't want to cough up $60 for.
