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