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DigitalDevilSummoner on 03 February 2013

here's a problem, Alan Wake for example was ported on the PC (which sold pretty well) since the sales on the xbox were on the low end. sony and nintendo titles sell well

here's another, MS has proven this gen that it does not give a flying cr@p about studios that don't make mega hits (for example japanese rpg devs, remedy)

here's a third, porting such games would take a lot of money itself and usually the results are pretty bad since we are talking about completely different architectures (unlike the 360 and the PC which are pretty similar) example; the crappy port of Dark Souls



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Deyon on 03 February 2013
JayWood2010 said:
Deyon said:

Sony and Nintendo make their games exclusive so that more people would buy their console. That's the whole point

More exclusives=hardware sales=Money

And so does MSFT but once they stop selling well what is stopping them from putting it on PC?  I mean it is digital so it is not like they are putting money into physical media.  All this does is maximizes profits and literally does not effect their hardware

PC games don't sell that well, Dude!

Digitally, They would have to pay VALVe money to put it on steam and if they do, they may get a profit of 500k/1m, It's just not worth it.



kain_kusanagi on 03 February 2013

MS wants people to buy PCs so they can sell Windows. That's why they ports some of their Xbox games to PC. Sony does sell PCs, but they don't have to convince people to buy Windows. Nintendo would rather everyone play games on Nintendo systems so they aren't going to port anything.

All PC games make MS money because their require Windows to play them. All Xbox games make MS money because of licenses. To MS the Xbox and PC markets are almost the same.



Jaywood2010 on 03 February 2013
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
here's a problem, Alan Wake for example was ported on the PC (which sold pretty well) since the sales on the xbox were on the low end. sony and nintendo titles sell well

here's another, MS has proven this gen that it does not give a flying cr@p about studios that don't make mega hits (for example japanese rpg devs, remedy)

here's a third, porting such games would take a lot of money itself and usually the results are pretty bad since we are talking about completely different architectures (unlike the 360 and the PC which are pretty similar) example; the crappy port of Dark Souls

horrible comment.  Halo, Halo 2, Fable , Fable III, and now possibly Halo 3. also sell badly?  Nooope.  That's what i thought.




       

DigitalDevilSummoner on 03 February 2013
zero129 said:
Can you imagine playing them games @60FPSS in 1080P or more .


No because 90% of console to PC ports are trash



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DigitalDevilSummoner on 03 February 2013
JayWood2010 said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
here's a problem, Alan Wake for example was ported on the PC (which sold pretty well) since the sales on the xbox were on the low end. sony and nintendo titles sell well

here's another, MS has proven this gen that it does not give a flying cr@p about studios that don't make mega hits (for example japanese rpg devs, remedy)

here's a third, porting such games would take a lot of money itself and usually the results are pretty bad since we are talking about completely different architectures (unlike the 360 and the PC which are pretty similar) example; the crappy port of Dark Souls

horrible comment.  Halo, Halo 2, Fable , Fable III, and now possibly Halo 3. also sell badly?  Nooope.  That's what i thought.

halo, halo 2 and fable were first xbox games. when we see Gears 3 and Halo 4 on the PC THEN we will talk.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 03 February 2013

i think it would be the best thing for profit. it's cheaper last time i checked.



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Jaywood2010 on 03 February 2013
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
JayWood2010 said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
here's a problem, Alan Wake for example was ported on the PC (which sold pretty well) since the sales on the xbox were on the low end. sony and nintendo titles sell well

here's another, MS has proven this gen that it does not give a flying cr@p about studios that don't make mega hits (for example japanese rpg devs, remedy)

here's a third, porting such games would take a lot of money itself and usually the results are pretty bad since we are talking about completely different architectures (unlike the 360 and the PC which are pretty similar) example; the crappy port of Dark Souls

horrible comment.  Halo, Halo 2, Fable , Fable III, and now possibly Halo 3. also sell badly?  Nooope.  That's what i thought.

halo, halo 2 and fable were first xbox games. when we see Gears 3 and Halo 4 on the PC THEN we will talk.

Oh yes just ignore every other game i said.  Every one of those games are games that sell insaley well including Halo 3 which has sold 11 million. What PS3 game has sold 11m?  Oh that is right......Im fine with you disagreeing but dont act like that.  And MSFT published gears 1 on PC as well.  I see absolutely no reason that you gave on why this is a bad idea.  It is a simple way to mazximize profts but you bring up something that makes you yourself look bad by saying things that are completely false.

And notice i said years later.  for example port them whene ps4 comes out.




       

Gribble on 03 February 2013

Are you kidding? Exclusives are there to sell consoles ... Do I need to explain further?



Deyon on 03 February 2013
JayWood2010 said:

Oh yes just ignore every other game i said.  Every one of those games are games that sell insaley well including Halo 3 which has sold 11 million. What PS3 game has sold 11m?  Oh that is right......Im fine with you disagreeing but dont act like that.  And MSFT published gears 1 on PC as well.  I see absolutely no reason that you gave on why this is a bad idea.  It is a simple way to mazximize profts but you bring up something that makes you yourself look bad by saying things that are completely false.

And notice i said years later.  for example port them whene ps4 comes out.

The dude said nothing about the PS3, don't derail the thread, Man!