lol, it lost me at 'industry harming' what a load of tripe.
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lol, it lost me at 'industry harming' what a load of tripe.
You don't think individual console exclusives hurt everybody?Quote:
PC games are so much cheaper that they alone can allow even a high-end PC to undercut a console within a single year
All year round, PC games are being sold at extreme discounts thanks to Good Old Games, Humble Bundles and Steam sales. Even brand new titles that have yet to be released can occasionally get a pre-order discount or otherwise drop below the traditional console release price of $59.99. There's also the occasional franchise or "studio" bundles that can save you around 25-50%. Summer and winter Steam sales offer the largest discounts, with single titles going as much as 75% off with entire franchises and bundle discounts stacking onto the discount Valve already added to it. Yes, it's true that you may sometimes get games that you don't want from a bundle, but you have to be trying pretty hard when you try to label that as a disadvantage. The games are yours forever, and there's a pretty good chance that someone may want to "borrow" it from you and try it out even if you don't. Over the course of 3-4 years, some people have saved over $3000 by using Steam. All those discounts, and developers still earn more on the PC.
no, they don't.
the article is very misleading. console cycles are not about trapping you with outdated hardware, they are about giving you a great long life for a machine. in another six, seven, eight years the PS4 will be getting new games, and I wont have spent any more money beyond the original outlay. my PC wont be able to run games released in six or seven years. I will have to upgrade over time. that means it is impossible to get the same value for money out of a PC as a console.
If it's a console beater now you should have no problem, sure the high graphics will have moved on, but you'll still be beyond the console level ones.
games don't keep working though. my PS3 games will always run in my PS3. any PS3 games released this year or next year will still work. Games released in six years for my PS4 will still work. PC games released in six years will be designed for that hardware, and wont work on what I have now, or will run badly.
I can still run alpha centurai or civ 2, or the the original colonisation- not the civ 4 remake, the original DOS based one with zero issues.
these are 20+ year old games.
sure you can, run all the ancient games you like. my point is, Civ 10 or whatever it will be in the future wont work on the PC I have now. Civ 10 on PS4 would still work.
I have had consoles and PCs all my life, they are both excellent. the idea of PCs being inherently better is utterly laughable. "Consoles have continued to stick around over the years but their time has long passed." try telling that to Sony who have sold over 20 million PS4s. all these PC gamers were proclaiming the doom of consoles and how this generation were going to flop and would be the last. and wouldn't you know it, sales have been huge :rolleyes:
civ 10 will never come to PS4, maybe its *******ised cut down offspring will make an appearance. You'd be surprised at what you can get to run.
I've had consoles since the master system. I've had PC since 1999?
I know which I spend more time on. I can't even remember the last time I attempted to turn the ps3 on. And the Wii appears to have stopped working.
I do want a wii u though.
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our family have always had both, and we have spent far more on PCs over the years. fifteen years ago you couldn't get a PC for less than £1500. it lasted a long time, but my Snes, my brother's N64, our Gamecube, even my Wii all combined cost less, and covered a far longer period of time. You have no idea what will come to PS4 in future, and this stuff about cut down games is bull****. sure, strategy games are better on PC. so?
the article is massively skewed to the point that a lot of their arguments are fabrications. complaints about used games? the only reason there is no used PC game market is because they don't always physically work. you have no idea if the activation code will work, if there will be problems getting it transferred to you. and PC games are far too easy to rip and pirate, which is why no stores will trade them in. nor are console manufacturers restricting used games. Microsoft were going to, and gamers told them where to stick it, so they scrapped the idea.
Consoles aren't going anywhere, neither are PCs, and one is not harming the other. they are all good, and will all continue to be good.
You still don't think exclusives hurt the market?