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Re: I CALL BS |
May 5, 2008, 14:32 |
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Your closing remarks demonstrate that you are either incredibly naive (perhaps you are quite young?), or you genuinely have strong communist ideals. And no, I'm not using that as an insult, it's simply the ideology implied by your own words.
I think his original comment was hinting at Crytek needing to be happy with what they have rather than focused on what someone else has. Being profitable is important and if you can achieve that you should at least be greatful for that.
They are likely moving to consoles (along with other companies) because to PC market is probably not going to be ready for a game of this graphical quality for a long time. 1-2 years at least if my personal spending has any bearing on it. I don't see myself even being able to run Crysis to it's full potential until I upgrade my system again to an 8800 video card and probably a much faster processor. And DX 10 or 11?
By comparison they can use the console hardware today and market this game now rather than waiting for the PC gamers to buy the new fancy hardware to make their game attractive enough.
It's kind of obvious when you think about it. The game industry in general thrives on selling games on bigger better graphics each year and if the PC game industries hardware is moving forward slower (and in my opinion it is, it's crawling atm) than consoles it makes more sense to make your big shiny new game on the consoles because you'll have more potential customers there. You can make the most amazing game anyone has ever seen but if it requires you to spend $1000-$2000 to get the expected experience you're going to lose out on a lot of sales.
Consoles, are neck and neck, graphically speaking, with the majority of PC's at the moment (in my opinion). I think most PC gamers have equal or less powerful systems than the current consoles offer and game companies saw this coming. Sales are what drive them and if you have more consumers able to buy your game in group A then that is where you build your game.
Piracy...pshh. It's simple numbers. Less people are upgrading their computers because it's a better value to buy a console if you want simple entertainment. (And A LOT of people do).
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