RogueTrooper 2000AD wrote:If you was CCP and just spent millions on a game you scrapped and most of your dedicated player base was on PC and another game you was creating couldn't reach it potential on a console would you.....
A: Re create the game on a platform that has no constraints, where 98%+ of your player base is and you don't have to worry about the platforms life cycle within 8 years. Your top game is also on this platform and you want to link both your games together.
B: Re create the game on a platform where you have a tiny player base of players (most of whom hate you now anyway) and most new players won't even know of the game you are trying to link this game with. You have to use a 3rd party network that means you can't realistically link both games because updates, patches and hotfixes would take longer and this platform will be out of date within 8 years and is already out of date by your preferred platforms standard.
You actually belive al that nonsense ?
Al and I mean al that have any insight in gaming, are al saying PC and KBM are shrinking. You may not like this you may even say that PC are more mothern/better etc etc it does not matter. Fact : PC gaming market is smaler that console and now even FPS are smaler on PC.
THATS the hard fact. THATS what CCP turned there back to.
Of course the PC market is still big and have potential.
Have a look at the industry.
A decade ( give or take a few years ) ago the biggest game franchises was PC games.
Over the ps3 and Xbox 360 life time that have slowly shifted. Now the biggest games are console the most sales of games are also console. And that regardless of the fact that PC hardware are always going to have a edge over console.
To quote the link
"The point is that the players are dependent on the developers. If the developers start developing only for consoles or controllers, it won't matter how much you want to play with kb/mouse/PC... the games won't be there."
Any way I belive that was a good read withourt personal opinions of preference. It just list numbers and facts, you may not like those facts and numbers but they point towards somthing regardless of personal opinion.
Regards