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This Ain't A Console War, It's a Genocide (Sales Figures! Ooooh!)
Storm Rider:
Well, Sony paid a lot of smaller developers to make their games exclusive, and people didn't know better at the time. Now most people have wised up and realized that the money they'll make from multiplatform sales far outstrips the vast majority of the exclusive deals Sony gave them. The fact of the matter is, the Wii has sold well enough already that third parties are snapping at the bit to make games for it. They'll show up very shortly, I guarantee it.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: schimmy on 20 May 2007, 16:44 ---
In the next couple of gaming generations, what I think will happen is the differences between consoles and PCs will pretty much go, the only difference will be continual upgrading vs. occasional replacement of your gaming rig.
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That statement was made just to start a fight. It failed miserably. To be honest, I'm trying to buy a monitor/hdtv in the size range of 24-27 inches to hook up all my stuff to at the same time.
As for the underlined statement, what kind of differences are disappearing? The controls will never be as easy on a PC as they are on consoles (13 buttons>105, yes I know you don't use all of them, and yes I know you can hook up controllers, but present this to someone who's never done it before and they're immediately daunted by the amount of keys and are too cheap to buy a controller). Also, there are far too many good games that are only on consoles for me to ignore them, I doubt that's going to change much either.
Storm Rider:
The fact of the matter is, PC gaming is now a marginal niche. I'm not going to say it's dying or anything crazy like that, but if you look at the numbers: Last year, console software and hardware generated 12.5 billion dollars, while PC software didn't even crack 1 billion. Publishers are following the money and therefore there are just more games on consoles that PC owners don't get. If you're a huge MMO or RTS guy or a FPS elitist, then yes, you'll want a PC, but most people aren't that discriminative of what games they want.
ackblom12:
Don't try telling that to a PC Elitist. Last time i said that while chatting, I swear I felt the attempt to kill me through the internet.
Narr:
I consider myself a PC gamer now. Good games for the PC tend to be better made than the best games for the consoles. Reasons being that the best games for consoles tend to be incredibly short and lack online supply or a control scheme that's acceptable.
Am I an elitist? Hell fucking no. I just don't have any desire to own a Wii, X360, or PS3 at the given time. There is literally dick for games I want, nothing I'd turn to again in 5 years and still enjoy playing.
Once Super Smash Bro.s Brawl comes out, however, I will be getting a Wii.
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