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[AhMunRa]

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/250462,opinion-how-the-pc-is-making-consoles-look-out-of-date.aspx

Interesting article that game developers are saying PC is yet again the next big platform. The main reason being that consoles are using 6 year old hardware and technology, and nobody is currently talking about releasing a new console anytime soon. This is leaving the developers looking to the PC to take advantage of the PC hardware that has cropped up. Site includes 3 videos, 1 looks more like a cut scene, but supposedly is using the new Unreal Engine. The 2nd is more showing real time rendering form a developer standpoint using Crytech2 Engine. The 3rd is in my opinion the best, showcasing the Frostbite 2 Engine from DICE on an early Alpha release of Battlefield 3, looks like EA will be getting my money again.

[atom0s]

I wouldn't say PC was ever not the best/biggest platform. Consoles ship with limitations and boundaries as to how far they can be pushed. They basically come with a count-down til they are out-dated and replaced. Since PCs are easy to upgrade and can be done fairly cheap they're always more inclined to stay up with the games to date.

I stopped buying consoles after PS1 cause of this. It's cheaper to just own a PC and upgrade it to play the latest games each time the next jump in gaming technology happens. PS3 still costs more then my current system did for me to build it manually.

For $300-400, people can build a system that will play any game released to date. And then keep that system for years to come while the current consoles will be outdated within the next ~2 years. It's only a matter of time before we see the next Nintendo and Microsoft previews for their next-gen consoles.

[AhMunRa]

Never thought of PC gaming in that sense. My reasoning was always a games playability. You can only run through so many levels so many times before you get bored with it, but because it was on a PC the game could be modded, add-ons added, new levels created. In my mind I could rationalize paying $50 for a game because I would be able to play it for awhile, and when it got boring, I could mod it and play it some more.

[Geri]

Xbox360 was outdated already when it came out. It's hardware was ridiculous compared to a higher-end PC of that time. I have checked a few games on it, saw the limitations in graphic etc and never cared about it again. Consoles are for the masses who doesn't want a PC, just plug in something and play. It has bunch of limits, it gets outdated in max a year compared to average PCs but it does its duty, simple as it can be.
It is good if you are an average guy who doesn't even know how is a keyboard working but if you are a regular PC user, console just looks a dumb box which can do nothing, compared to a PC.

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[Geri]

Piracy is rampant on consoles too, maybe even more than on PC because once you have modded your console, you don't need to rely on cracks etc. And if you screw up something, usually you just bring it back and some unsuspecting customer service rep will change it for a new.

It is really pushed so hard to conquer other parts of the market that is not PC oriented. People who are not interested in PCs will usually not learn to use them just to play. Some of them will, but the majority will not. The consoles are made for the average not-geek teenagers and alike who are hanging out all the time, drinking, using drugs, collecting trophies of fucked girls and so on and on. They know nothing about computers at all. Consoles are for them. For us, more geek-like creatures, PC is superior of course.

Most of the console users couldn't even copy some files to a PC from a DVD or anything like that. It is just not for them. All they want is to play a bit. No reading, no clicking, no installing, no crap. Only gaming.

There were plans to make some cross-breeds like Console/DVD player/PC but thank god it seems that branch has died out. Intel was pushing that idea for some time.

[AhMunRa]

I've played FPS on consoles before, of course this was Turok on N64. Wasn't bad, but at the time I hadn't played on a PC either. Once I played my first FPS on PC I was hooked. Aiming is meant for a mouse not a joypad. A joypad is where you take your best girl or guy.

[Phox]

I also played my first FPS on console (halo combat evolved). I really was puzzled at why I couldn't do anything at the same time as moving and shooting (my primary concern was jumping, which Super Mario 64 had taught me was the most important thing in a video game) and why I had such trouble aiming. I only learned why that was when I played my first FPS on PC that I realized there wasn't any special reason for those problems of mine, because those were caused by the fundamental inferiority of the gamepad, not because I was bad at the game. To this day, whenever I play MW2 at my friend's house, I still suck.

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[Geri]

[atom0s]

Prices aren't Steams fault. I wouldn't blame them cause a game costs too much, they are simply forwarding the game to players with easier access and a central location. The price is still handled by the developers and publishers. (I'm sure Steam has some say in it for profit share and such but I doubt they weight much on the subject.)

Steam has come along way from when it was released, I've been using it since it first launched (literally the day of launch, my oldest Steam acct thats still active is 3 days after the launch old.) and seen the progress it has made. Granted they do ignore the community at times when it is in favor of their desires over the contributing communities, such as the new UI that launched recently. Majority didn't want it but they pushed it anyway to keep modern with the latest styles.

[Seergaze3]

I'll be looking forward to the frostbite engine 3.0 that will run battlefield 3 as announced

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