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Lightning08 said:

This reminds me of Gran Turismo to PC stuff... that will never happen.

I do believe that a PSP version sometime in the future is a high possibility though and it would make sense.

 

Yeh, that would be awesome, so you could take your levels on the move. They need to have good connectivity between them, maybe it could just be download for the PSP that comes with the PS3 version



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Isn't the BD logo missing :/



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that picture is as fake as the weave in a black girls hair



This thread needs to be locked. It's fake. Very poor job by the person who made this.



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man thats so fake xD just look at the box man its cheap plastic xD



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Jo21 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
bdbdbd said:
@S.T.A.G.E: If so, why doesn't Sony or Nintendo release their big games on PC? If it's a different market, it wouldn't effect negatively on game sales or console sales. It just would be the opposite; if you'd have SMG on your PC, and liked it, you'd surely want to buy Wii and SMG for the Wii just to experience it on Wii.
Or GT5 on PC only would increase PS3 sales, since people would see how great game it is, and they'd buy PS3 for GT5.

With the same logic you said the PC is on different market, last gen is too. "Console exclusive" doesn't equal "exclusive".

Ask yourself why Microsoft got their hands on FFVII for the PC. They published the PC version. It was still exclusive to Sony though through 3rd party. They are totally different experiences and that needs to be accepted. Consoles war with each other, PC's are on their own. Videogames consoles are their own entity and in that they have no gripe with the PC. PC guys can mumble to themselves about how consoles suck all day, yet they don't. Anyone from PC who shifts to consoles like Valve sees an investment in consoles. Microsoft saw an investment in consoles themselves after they saw that Sony gathered market share by gathering games developers. Not 60% percent of the gaming industry with all platforms.... just consoles. Microsoft wanted in on that action instead of just publishing software for the PC, because they had no business with consoles in the past.

 

actually it was published by EIDOS.

fail.

 

 

My mistake it was Eidos. I wouldn't call that a fail. It was still published by an outsider and put PC.



bdbdbd said:
@S.T.A.G.E: M$ saw an investment in consoles when Ken Kutaragi said he was going to destroy M$. And the size of the investment was defined by PSX:s success.

You know, gaming world revolves around software, not hardware. Every platform competes the other for games, no matter how you look at it. The PC world differentiates itself from consoles by having other uses than just games. If it would be completely different, all the games would be on either PC or console and the funny thing would be, that they wouldn't effect on each others sales.

Tell me, what would happen if PC:s couldn't be used for gaming? Would that have effect on console sales? Or would it have effect on game sales on consoles? And give a good reason why Sony and Nintendo doesn't release their big hitters on PC? If the PC would be completely different market, they would only be making more money with increased game sales since consoles and games on consoles would be sold just as much as now when they are exclusives.

Maybe Square wanted to make more money with FF7. I don't see any other reason. I don't get your point about FF7, since it clearly shows that the market is the same. Look at companies yearly financials, do they include PC into them?

 

I never doubted that PC's couldn't be used for gaming. I've been playing games on PC forever, but im just putting everything in it's place. PC gaming is different than Console gaming. They are not one in the same. Consoles  have variety, while PC is just...well...PC. I stated before if you read that consoles were created differently from Arcades and PC. As far as a gaming war is concerned, PC is on its own. Consoles War with consoles, in arcades people pay more to the arcade that has the most mass appeal. Sony and Nintendo are not Microsoft. Microsoft WAS a computer software company before they stepped intot he console department. Type in Console gaming vs PC gaming and they will show you that there a vast difference. They are two different styles of gaming. PC gaming was booming far before consolees hit it big. They are both apart of the Gaming industry, split into two. I never denied that they both weren't gaming. Console gaming and PC gaming are different. Consoles as a whole vie for validity and dominance against PC's, while warring amongst themselves and making astonishing numbers for themselves without the help of PC.

Examples of PC gaming vs Console gaming:

"In case you haven't noticed the gaming industry is surging in sales and quality. Consoles have just entered a new era and PC games are improving at an incomparable rate. In just the past year gamers have been introduced to Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, a new Command and Conquer title, Company of Heroes, a World of Warcraft Expansion, Supreme Commander and a slew of other titles that are well worth mentioning. However, the odds that you'll be able to play games that are released for the PSP, PS3, DS, Wii, Xbox 360 and PC are highly unlikely. Thus, you're faced with this decision: Console gaming or PC gaming?"

-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/215561/console_vs_pc_gaming.html?cat=15

 

"The age old debate. The big question. No, I am not talking about the meaning of life, or the existence of a higher power. I am talking about the question that gets gamers everywhere into a heated debate: PC or console?

The PC vs. console debate has been going ever since the golden age of the PC games. Titles like Doom took gamers by storm and had everyone raging about the benefits of PC gaming. Gaming on home computers grew; titles like Myst, Tomb Raider, The Sims, and countless others emerged as high selling heroes.

On the other side of the spectrum, console development saw the entrance of popular devices such as the Sega Genesis, the N64, and the PlayStation. Users had the option of buying one system, and the games they wanted for it, without worrying that their consoles would not support their games.

Recently, Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer of Epic games, announced that the world of PC gaming was going downhill fast. He reported that sales of console games are increasing much faster than PC games, and the only time people like to us a PC for gaming is for internet based games like World of Warcraft.

Is Bleszinski right? Is the future of PC gaming as bleak as it seems? I say yes. These days, buyers do not want to be upgrading their PCs everytime they want to play a newly released game. In most cases, though, this is what has to be done. PCs get dated very quickly, especially in regard to RAM and graphics cards.

Console users, on the other hand, do not have that problem. With the next-gen consoles like the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Wii, users don't have to fret about their consoles being dated (until, of course, the next wave of consoles is released in a decade or so). It seems to me that buying a console for gaming is a much smarter investment than buying a PC for gaming.

As for whether or not the PC gaming world will be annihilated, I'm not as sure. Die hard fans will always exist, staking their claim that the PC is dominant and always will be. It is true that the PC generally has better control systems, due to a keyboard and mouse. Games like RPGs (role-playing games) are best suited for this type of control scheme."

-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/627543/cliff_bleszinski_bashes_pc_gaming_future.html?cat=15



naznatips said:
Mendicate Bias said:
naznatips said:

No, it doesn't. The PC is a gaming platform playing the same game as the consoles (often for less cost). PC games effect console sales, and buyer perception. Valve games will never be exclusive to a console, because they are PC games. The console versions are just cheap ports. When you call a cheap port of something exclusive, you only make yourself look dumb.

 

Naznatip could you show me some data proving that PC gaming effects console sales? I'm not doubting you I just want to see how much of a relationship the two platforms have in terms of sales.

 

You can't get concrete data on PC sales since so much of it is digital, but there is certainly a lot of evidence of influence. For example, the 360's sales in Europe are much lower than the PS3's, despite the large price difference. One factor that may be contributing to this is that Europe is a strong PC market, and the 360 shares a lot more games with the PC than the PS3 does.

But, really, logic is the best defense of this argument. Logically if you offer the same games on 2 different platforms, the sales of one are going to affect the other. When a PC developer outsources a port of their games to a console, you don't call that an exclusive game, because it's not an exclusive game. It's one of multiple platforms where people can play it. Not only that, but Microsoft and Sony designed the PS3 and 360 to try and compete with the PC. Heavy graphics and physics focus, large online systems, multimedia, web-browsers. That's exactly the market they are trying to go for, and it makes PC their direct competitor.

And no, Microsoft doesn't profit off PC game sales other than their own first party stuff.

 

1st party games for consoles that go on PC's are STILL considered exclusive, because only consoles individually war with each other. It's only exclusive in the console realm.



The Anarchyz said:
Well Halo 3 is a 360 Exclusive, if it gets a PC release it will be years from now... And GoW2 will be a 360 exclusive, at least for now...

As for LittleBigPlanet, only Sony can decide their exclusivity, they own the game...

Microsoft owns those games just like Sony owns LBP. Sony and Microsoft have the right to decide for themselves.

 



@STAGE:

PC gaming directly effects console gaming, and vice versa. As Naz pointed out, the PC's strong presence in the EU is probably one of the reasons why the 360 has struggled to keep up with the ps3 in the region.

I'm an American, but I'm an example of this (as is Naz, and many other people on this website). I own a PC, ps3, and Wii. I can get most of the 360's games I want on another platform, thus I won't buy one, and likely will not buy one at all this gen. I can get Mass Effect, Gears, and Bioshock on PC (and the same will probably hold true for Halo 3, Gears 2, etc.), and games like Eternal Sonata and Enchanted Arms (and likely Tales of Vesperia) eventually make their way over to the ps3.  Games going to other platforms, PC or otherwise, does effect sales.

Saying the PC doesn't count because "it's a different market" is the stupid line HD console fanboys were using to discount the Wii last year. "It's a different market." No, it's not. It's a single market, the video game market, and each platform directly effects the others.