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Well,

Yes 187 40.30%
 
No 232 50.00%
 
For retail games 20 4.31%
 
Maybe because... 24 5.17%
 
Total:463
Intrinsic said:

It would have helped if you guys read the rest of my post..... maybe then you will at least see why I feel their is a clear difference between consoles and PC's.... but yh, I'm sure its more interesting to assume I have an agenda.

Do you mean that sentence?

"Cause the truth is that most console gamers don't play on PC and someone isn't going to change their mind from buying a console simply because said game is also on a PC."

How do you know that this is the truth? Do you have representative statistics, how many console gamers don't play on PCs, how many PC gamers don't play on consoles and how many play on both of them?

Representative numbers about how many home console gamers don't play on handhelds, how many tablet gamers don't play on smartphones and any other combination between PCs, home consoles, handhelds, tablets, smartphones, board games and card games would be appreciated, too!



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Conina said:
torok said:

Most PC ports are bad. I mean, terribly bad. I have games on my PC that have game breaking issues that I simply look at and wonder if it was even tested.

Most of your PC parts seem to be bad. I mean, terribly bad.

I can't even remember when a game or the whole OS crushed on my PC... these blue-screen times are over for many years.


Not top of the line, but not even close to bad either. Don't have issues with any Crysis games, Metro LL on high/ultra. Witcher 2 was running well too, but I didn't liked it that much. None of the games on my PC are in less than 1080p. When I say bad ports, I'm not talking about crashing my PC. I only had BSOD when dealing with hardware problems (like my recently replaced ASUS MB that would gave BSODs because of bad memory slots that I discovered when upgrading RAM) and game crashes only when trying some OC on GPU last week, but it was more for curiosity than practical gains.

The bad versions are mostly badly optimized games. WD currently is the king of bad optimization, but it isn't just a PC issue since all versions run terrible. But while Crysis, Metro, Witcher are demading games, they deliver good visuals. But a lot of games simply demand good hardware and don't run that well. Wolfenstein: The New Order is a mess of tearing (and its VSync option doesn't do almost nothing) and textures pop in while its visuals simply aren't nothing spetacular. Big surprise is that Capcom, while getting almost always a massive amount of hate, always deliver decent PC versions and is one of the only ones that put a benchmark option in its graphical setting so you can see how the game is running before you start playing (I won't count Just Cause 2 because its benchmark actually is way more demanding than the game and it's useless as a performance reference).



Ultimately, it depends on what you want to accomplish with the discussion. If you just want to say your console has the most exclusives, most fans of Sony/Nintendo prefer to not count ones with PC ports. If you actually want to stack a console's library vs competitors, you should include anything not available on competing platforms. 

Taking games like Titanfall/Planetside, for instance:

Titanfall is exclusive to the Xbox platform. It's an Xbox exclusive, but not an X1 exclusive. But it should be on any exclusive list, as it is not on any COMPETING platform.

Planetside is on PC, but PC is only bearly competing with consoles - generally people have a preferance, and they make most of their purchases for it. So it should also be on exclusive lists.



If a majority of console owners don't have a PC to play games (do we have stats for this?), then yes, I would say it's an exclusive.



I would still count a game as an exclusive even if its on PC.



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Since I can't stand playing games on my computer anymore... I generally consider console exclusives as exclusives.



If I can play Uncharted 4 with Playstation Now on my new Bravia TV, it is an exclusive anymore?

Prepare for the PS4 to have NO exclusive games!



No, but when deciding to buy a game system I look at the overall game library not just exclusives. If I choose between xbox one or ps4 and not much of a pc gamer I will see games like titan fall, dead rising ,plants vs zombies and peggle 2 as a persusasive reason to choose the xbox one over the ps4.



I go by three tiers

1. Pure Exclusive - Means you have to buy that system to play it, no exceptions.
2. Console exclusive - Means you cannot play it on direct competitors.
3. Multi-platform - Can be played on more than 1 console.



whatever said:
If a majority of console owners don't have a PC to play games (do we have stats for this?), then yes, I would say it's an exclusive.

Well, games like Left 4 Dead 2 are still not exclusive because even a laptop can run them!



                
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