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"Why are PCs so unpopular?"

This is not an insult to PC lovers.

It seems that the most flexible console, the PC is being overlooked by game creators, take Crazy Taxi, it wasn't released for PC for ages. Spy Hunter and Gran Turismo are on the Playstation and the XBox, so why not on the PC?
Is it better graphics?
Better Sound?

So why aren't games released for PC as much as they are for other gaming platforms?

Ideas anyone?

Lets just agree on one thing here, both systems ow each other alot. Without the PC the consoles wouldn't have vital functions like a hard drive or a modem, or be able to play great games like Half Life and Deus Ex.

Likewise without consoles PC gamers would be deprived of game genres like beat em up and driving. These types of genre only seem to work on the console.

I'm just fed up of people arguing all the time which is the better system, open your eyes and see that both PC and console need each other to survive.

Small Frog wrote:
> I hate to point this out, but the Die Hard games are badly-made
> cash-ins on the film licence.
>
> And there are hundreds more PC games than PS games.
>
> And...if you do "continually empty your pockets" to have a
> good PC, your reward is getting better graphics and sound than any
> console is even capable off.
>
> The one thing I agree with you on is the ease of console use. They are
> just 'turn on and play'. But your point about hard-drive size is
> irrelevant - consoles use memory cards, and eventually you will have
> to remove saves.
>
> Consoles are out of date in 18 months. A regularly upgraded PC can
> last a lifetime, and can cost less than a console to upgrade if you
> stick with lower than the top-range stuff.

i don't agree, i've only had my PC for 2 and a half years and it's towards the minimal specs of all the latest games now. It's also proven to be unreliable. I hate to put down the PC but consoles are far better and cheaper.

:D I finally Half-Life, i'm downloading the Counter-Strike mod....*gets excited* hopefully I shall sit infront of my PC for so long i'll actually become a part of it...

Probably because manafacturers aim to make products for the games-only consoles, whereas pc's are used for many more things besides. Also, it's a lot easier to copy PC games to anyone who has the knowledge, so console-only software creation is the answer to that.

The only reason I like my console id because you get some exclusive games, and because I can take it round my mates house and play it with them, soon i'll have a LAN in my garage, so it will be the same kinda thing but until then a console will have to do.
Consoles are also better because they fit nicely under/above/wherever around your tv, out of the way, whereas a PC can't be missed, they're huge things, I wish I could plug it into my TV but my video card hasn't got an output, they're much more useful though, but I use my pc for more han games, if my PC was taken away tomorrow i'd be lost, if my console was taken away I probably wouldn't notice, i'd be sad to see my GBA go though.
I guess when the GC is released and I get some new games i'll start playing it again.
enough of my ramblings....

The great thing about PC gaming is the internet communities that spring up from nearly every major release. We all know that most games come complete with map editors and similar software. With these people can make their own version of their fav game. They can often keep a game alive for years.

Prime examples are Counter strike made from half life and Tactical ops made from Unreal tournement.

Small Frog wrote:

> A PC is the ultimate gaming platform - far superior to a console.
> Therefore it has a heftier price tag. Live with it.

Plus they have info gathering, word processing and real fast internet capabilities. And most of the games on PC are exclusive but many console games come to PC with added bonuses.

A while back, some fool said that console games have to be 'toned down' for low end PCs.

Not true.

A PS game can run/be emulated on a 233 PC with barely any frame rate trouble. THPS2 on PC looked like THPS3 on PS2. THPS3 on PC kicks the PS2 version's buttocks in to oblivion.

Most people agree on this (and if you don't, you should):

A PC is the ultimate gaming platform - far superior to a console. Therefore it has a heftier price tag. Live with it.

PC FPSs are only good because of population of people that play the game at one time, I find that I can go onto the servers and i'll only be able to find a few servers that are empty, people are always playing, without that PC FPSs wouldn't be anywhere near as good, but to say Halo's better, well i've only played it once, I enjoyed it, but because it's a lot newer it's bound to be a bigger game and have improved graphics, but they don't make a game good.

From many of the PC FPS games I have played and thats most, I can deduce that Halo is good but not that good. And to the guy who said early on in the posts that consoles hold the crown for FPS?? ROTFLMFAO oh dear.
And to Ice Raider, what about the hundreds of games (and good games at that) that haven't been released on console?? I only have to look at my CD rack to say that console only owners have missed ALOT of quality titles.