You did provide a challenge. You wanted to know why games where released later for the PC and you did get some valid theories from a bunch of people. There really are no right or wrong, just opinions. And mine doesn’t have to be any more true than yours.

But you wanted an discussion, and getting offenden when someone doesn’t share your opinion and putting your blog on hold won’t do.

From now on I’m only going to write about flowers and weather, what I had for dinner and other neutral shit.

I don’t believe the NES was primitive. It was able to produce smooth-scrolling platform games in 1985 with Super Mario Bros, while the PC was able to do this first at the end of 1990 with Commander Keen.

The NES clunky? It was a while back i saw one in real life but I don’t believe they are that big. In this picture: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/miketurner1/Picture.jpg is doesn’t seem super-sized compared to a Gamecube (which is a very small machine).

Back in 1990, a NES had a price around $125 ( source: http://boards.ign.com/classic_console_gaming_general_board/b5138/2949349/p1/?6 ), not much compared to a ps3 ( $499 ).

“And now is why I’m going to wonder why us who prefer PC-gaming has to wait in favor of the consoles.
See, the original Xbox when it arrived back in 2001 was essentially just a PC in a more manageable case. It had a harddrive, it had essentially the same kind of CPU as in most budget-computers, it had a graphics circuit which was essentially a GeForce3, and it had a network card. The new 360 and PS3 are even more powerful, and are essentially computers in a neat package.”

Yes, the setup in a Xbox is similar to that of a PC. But it is ONE setup. The developers has the same CPU to work with, same amount of RAM, same Graphics Card and so on for every Xbox owner. There is not some Xboxes with AMD processors and some with Intel, some with different graphics card, some with unusual sound cards – which is the case with PC’s.

It all comes down to that there are only one or two variations of a setup to work with, not thousands.

It also seems more effective to release the game later for PC, when everyone who has worked on the console versions are done and can focus on the PC port. There must be huge cost savings not to have a team working only on the PC version.

And I do believe that if the game would be released for PC at the same time you wouldn’t buy it. You’re just angry that you can’t download it and play it.

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Sure you can question it all you want, but in the end of the day the game creators will release the games as they see fit (to maximize profits off course). The only thing you really can do is to avoid buying the console games, and buy the games when they eventually turn up to PC.

It´s simple economics really, and yes i sucks !

Everything in order to make sure our money is funneled in the right direction.

Sure, I understand that to play the newest games you need to own the newest console. What I oppose is the fact that nobody ever questions it. Everyone just buys the console rather than wondering WHY something is.

Fast forward to todays date, why should I buy a Console if PCs are so alike ? One of the reasons (as always) is to be able to play all the cool games before the other guy.

So in my opinion this is one major thing that keeps the consoles alive.

In short: Console makers are in bed with the Game makes

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