Part 3 – I can change if you can!
As consoles matured, advanced and evolved with better physics, stability true connectivity and matchmaking (thank you Xbox Live) it became the home for the hardcore and mass-market audience. Yes everyone has a PC, but not everyone has a killer gaming machine, far more people who WANT to play games have consoles and the developers know it:
“We’re big PC fans, but we definitely see, when you go to the computer store, that little rack of PC games,” says Sid Meier, creator of the Civilization series. “It’s definitely a big change from five years ago, when there was a whole wall of PC games.”
Peter Molyneux, chief of Lionhead Studios, told game blog Shacknews last week that he thinks the PC is becoming a casual gaming machine — an anathema to hardcore PC gamers everywhere. And last month, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinkski said PC gaming was in “disarray.”
A huge selling PC game is in the hundreds of thousands, a console game is in the millions. Crysis, the biggest PC FPS exclusive this year sold 83,000 units in it’s first month, Halo 3 sold 5 million copies.
These evolutions (and my frustration to upgrade) caused me to finally accept FPS (my main time waster in the video game world outside of RPG’s) on consoles, and love them with many hours clocked in CoD4, The Orange Box, Resistance, etc.
Part 4 – Arr matey, the water’s fine
Not only has the console industry adapted and evolved to handle games we would not normally have played on consoles, it is more hardened to the perils of piracy. Pirating games on the PC is as simple as a patch, on a console you generally have to modify your hardware, most people don’t want to cross that line.
Part 5 – I see a rainbow!
All is not lost though, the PC gaming industry has some aces in it’s sleeve, Maxis (EA), Valve (Half Life/Steam) and Blizzard (WoW, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2) These companies all say the PC gaming industry is just fine — and it is — for them:
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