More id on PC Gaming [Mar 20, 2008, 08:33 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
GamesIndustry.biz has more quotes on the state of PC gaming, this time from
Steve Nix, id Software Director of Business Development. Nix feels some of the
hardcore PC gaming audience is shifting to consoles, something id cannot
ignore:
"There are plenty of people who are diehard mouse and keyboard guys that may never go to console, and also right now, if you have the highest of high-end PCs, you're generally going to get a better visual experience," Nix said. "There's no console out there that's as powerful as a God machine right now, with a Quad-Core and a GeForce 8800 - it's very hard for any console to compete with that."
"So you still have PC players, and some players are just console guys, but have players moved over? Absolutely. We love PC gaming, and we continue to support PC gaming - but you can't ignore the market realities and the size of the console market these days."
Hardcore gamers don't switch over to consoles. Being a hardcore gamer means you have much higher standards than casual gamers. You don't tolerate shitty control schemes, you don't tolerate dumbed down, streamlined, designed-for-the-lowest-denominator crap. If you get a console, this is pretty much all you get.
Switch over completely? No, I agree, they wouldn't. But game on a console on the side? Why the fuck not? Sure, 99.9% of console games is shovelware crap, but there's some really fucking great games on the 360.
GTA 4 is not going to be lowest-denominator-crap.
Creston
Switch over completely? No, I agree, they wouldn't. But game on a console on the side? Why the fuck not? Sure, 99.9% of console games is shovelware crap, but there's some really fucking great games on the 360.
GTA 4 is not going to be lowest-denominator-crap.
Creston
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