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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?

I hate it when people quote whole posts, thats really annoying.
Of course Perfect Dark isn't as good as Halo, fools...*shakes head* Perfect Darks about 3 years old now, Halo is a great game, isn't the best FPS though, CS definatly beats it hands down (i've never played it), but considering how big a percentage of people in Europe do, it's not gonna be beaten easily, and it's 4 years old!

Rich-Xboxsource wrote:
> evilist wrote:
> Small Frog wrote:
>
> Finally - PCs have far superior capabilities to consoles. That is
> why
> their graphics are so much better (provided the PC has a new enough
> graphics gard). Our games tend to be more innovative, like Max Payne
> and Black and White. We also get the best FPSs - Deus Ex,
> Wolfenstein
> (not to mention Q3 and UT).
>
> PCs are not ignored. They are the kings of gaming.
>
> I dont agree. PC's have always been designed to be versitile. This
> means that although you can do as much as you like to a PC, it will
> never be as effecient or as realiable as a console game. It takes a
> lot of money to get a PC good enough to run the latest games on, and
> to keep your PC top of the range continally empties your pockets. A
> console is a stable platform, designed specifically with games in
> mind. They are quick and reliable, can be used only when you need
> them, and dont have the problems associates with windows crashing
> halfway through a game, then refusing to let you play it again until
> you have reinstalled it.
>
> Installing is a nother issue. Unless you have a hard drive the size
> of
> the moon, then sooner or later you are going to have to delete games
> to make room for others. A console player can just pick a game out
> of
> its box, put it in the console, and play away.
>
> And finally, the PC FPS has been and gone. Consoles hold that crown.
> Perfect Dark anyone?


>
> Meh! Halo OWNS Perfect Dark as a console FPS! And you know it!

I've played Halo, read opinions in three mags, one of them an x-box mag and talked to people on this site, even in the X-box forum and the general concensus is that Halo is hype, and only an average FPS. And Halo is also to be released on PC. And Perfect Dark is almost two years old, so how can you compare the two?! LOL!

Ice Raider wrote:
> 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?

PC is the most flexible console?! WHAT?! Newsflash mate, the PC ain't no console! WHAT?! I said the PC ain't a console?! WHAT?! PCs will NEVER be as easy to play games on as a console, for the simple fact of the ever rising spec requirements and the need to upgrade every time you want to play a new game.

You don't get that with consoles, they are truly "plug and play", which the PC "claims" to be, but actually ISN'T.

evilist wrote:
> Small Frog wrote:
>
> Finally - PCs have far superior capabilities to consoles. That is
> why
> their graphics are so much better (provided the PC has a new enough
> graphics gard). Our games tend to be more innovative, like Max Payne
> and Black and White. We also get the best FPSs - Deus Ex,
> Wolfenstein
> (not to mention Q3 and UT).
>
> PCs are not ignored. They are the kings of gaming.
>
> I dont agree. PC's have always been designed to be versitile. This
> means that although you can do as much as you like to a PC, it will
> never be as effecient or as realiable as a console game. It takes a
> lot of money to get a PC good enough to run the latest games on, and
> to keep your PC top of the range continally empties your pockets. A
> console is a stable platform, designed specifically with games in
> mind. They are quick and reliable, can be used only when you need
> them, and dont have the problems associates with windows crashing
> halfway through a game, then refusing to let you play it again until
> you have reinstalled it.
>
> Installing is a nother issue. Unless you have a hard drive the size of
> the moon, then sooner or later you are going to have to delete games
> to make room for others. A console player can just pick a game out of
> its box, put it in the console, and play away.
>
> And finally, the PC FPS has been and gone. Consoles hold that crown.
> Perfect Dark anyone?

Meh! Halo OWNS Perfect Dark as a console FPS! And you know it!

bananamanUK wrote:
> I also run a PC and console. I also see my PC as been far superior
> than my PS2, just for the fact it runs almost 10x faster and churns
> out fantastic visuals and 5.1 sound. Consoles are for fun...PCs are
> for SERIOUS FUN!!

For startesr, the PS2 also has dolby surround 5.1 sounds, and the main reason for games taking so long to get from console to PC and vise verser in some case in the incompatabilty of the 2 platforms, and with the likes of PC progression, games have to be toned down for slower PC's, some newer console games will not run on PC in the same visual bliss on a low end PC. Also, the games market is a difficult thing to crack, with more console gamers then PC gamers, the profit margins may be too small and so computer games developers choose not to go for the PC (even though they still cost a packet on the PC).

I've been looking at Macs they seem to be the only rival for PCs, but they'll never become greater, it's not possible I think it's about 95% of America that uses PCs,
Anyway, consoles competing with PCs? heh.

I don't think the PC is in competition with consoles. Its a totaly different set up, making it hard to compare the two systems. And if your looking for a game to blow your mind, check out Unreal 2. That game looks simply stunning, it puts all other games to shame graphically. It also sounds like it will play very just as well as if not better than most FPS currently on the market.

King Vegeta wrote:
> i think the pc guys(makers) need to come out with something so big and
> bad that it will blow your minds. though they are competing with the
> SONY and NINTENDO and MICROSOFT(xbox) it is going to be extremely
> diffucult to do. unless they comeout with like huge sound systems or
> games its goin to be impossible

Computers are used for so much more than gaming, the Western world (most of the world in fact...) is completely dependant on them.

They have never, and will never compete against the consoles. It is not a rival platform it is a processing system.

i think the pc guys(makers) need to come out with something so big and bad that it will blow your minds. though they are competing with the SONY and NINTENDO and MICROSOFT(xbox) it is going to be extremely diffucult to do. unless they comeout with like huge sound systems or games its goin to be impossible

I also run a PC and console. I also see my PC as been far superior than my PS2, just for the fact it runs almost 10x faster and churns out fantastic visuals and 5.1 sound. Consoles are for fun...PCs are for SERIOUS FUN!!