Give the consoles some love!

(datoo) #21

The consoles get enough love. There’s still a big difference between the console and PC platforms, and I think it’s good to keep it that way. Games developed specifically for one platform will benefit.

(Nail) #22

I have to own PC’s for business, I can afford to keep one game worthy, be stuffed if I’ll drop $600 on a game box and then have to buy a $1000 tv to even get close to quality I already have on a 19 in. monitor, the games are already said to retail around $70, not for me, I still got a Colecovision

(Joe999) #23

make it 70 euro because that’s what they cost me and you’re at 88.5$. and now ask yourself what you’re doing if you buy a hyped game for which there was no demo and which is crap like most of the EA games or which are “broken” like eg NFS:MW, it stutters like hell but you can’t give it back because the box is already opened and they don’t take back games because you could have copied (???) them.

imo THIS is piracy.

(B0rsuk) #24

I heard consoles are sold with initial loses, that is,below the price of the hardware. That’s why games are more expensive, they’re trying to compensate for low price of the console itself.
This makes it especially unlikely to allow a player to stick to 1-2 games and not buy more. Good mods are often as good, and sometimes better than original game. Admitedly, mostly multiplayer mods, because single player content invariably requires LOTS of time and effort to make.

In the end, even leaving the hardware and games out of this, I think computes are simply more fun, because they’re more potent. Whatever new gizmo is on the net you can access it. You aren’t on mercy of console wossnames who may or may not allow it, and it would still take time I suppose. For me, flexibility translates almost directly into fun.

(carnage) #25

I heard consoles are sold with initial loses, that is,below the price of the hardware. That’s why games are more expensive, they’re trying to compensate for low price of the console itself.
This makes it especially unlikely to allow a player to stick to 1-2 games and not buy more. Good mods are often as good, and sometimes better than original game. Admitedly, mostly multiplayer mods, because single player content invariably requires LOTS of time and effort to make.

i herd that nintendo makes games only to shift console units. this definatly seems the case with the cube. as the number of titles coming to it sure seem to decline after the realse period. and looking at the lower hardware specs of nintendo consoles compared to other console it seems posible they could be making the money this way

(ayatollah) #26

While it is true Nintendo are the only ones that make a profit from hardware sales, hardware specs have always been top notch for Nintendo. Nintendo always released the best hardware (spec-wise) at the time of release. SNES > MD, N64 > PS1, GC > PS2. Its only this generation where the specs of the Nintendo machine will not be to the standard of the competitors. And hurray for that I say…one more comparison - Innovation > Graphics.