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Cool, love PVE but realized that Bioshock is atleast a hundred times better than this game will be and that goes double for Metroid.
"Bioshock - spiritual successor to System Shock". AND made by the same company. I'm sold. Quote:
/Rant on
That is some high quality BS right there. Sure, people have their preferences when it comes to genres. BUT IT DOES NOT MATTER MUCH WHICH PLATFORM ITS ON. Gamers are gamers period. That dribble would have been true a decade ago when Console AND PC games were different beasts. But it is no longer the case. Console Gamers are PC Gamers now and vice versa. Games are now multiplatform. PC game makers who once before thought that they would NEVER touch consoles are now making them for multiple consoles AND PC. So that line you drew is non existent to tons of people who cross it daily. As for who will buy what, for every person you name who only plays PC and I will name 5 people who play multiplatform. /Rant off Quote: |
Anyone can speculate sales. Analysts do it all the time.
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August is far from a bad month to release GW:EN, in fact it's a great month... there is no direct competition - and the only other major title being released (for PC) this month is BioShock, which is so different from GW:EN that it is unlikely to attract many people who would otherwise have purchased GW:EN.
AND Direct Competition means games of the same GENRE not necessarily the same platform. So you are right on that point but it does not take away from the fact that indirect competition can be just as damaging. And judging by the amount of other games on the ballot this month, I can see a few putting GW:EN off a month or two before buying it. Quote:
Now let me quote you: "That is some high quality BS right there." It does matter which platform the game is released on, because a lot (likely the vast majority - although I've never seen any numbers) of gamers are not rich bastards with a high-end PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii in their homes all at once, but rather with just one, sometimes two of the above. So does it matter that GW:EN is a PC game and nearly every one of the, supposedly, interesting titles to be released this month (which does not include Enemy Territory Quake Wars by the way) are not? Hell yeah. As for claiming that console and PC gamers are exactly the same nowadays. Everything, from the industry itself to the statistics, prove you wrong. The vast majority of PC games remain completely different from anything you'll see on consoles, although I'll admit many mainstream games are now multi platform (albeit with significant PC gameplay changes, which wouldn't be necessary if the PC and console gamers were the exact same people, now would it?). Then there's NPD statistics, which clearly show that the consumer base for PC games is quite different from that for console games. Not only are the most popular genres entirely different, but also the average age of PC gamers is measured to be significantly higher. Look it up if you want to see for yourself, that's what google's for. Also, I'm sure you can mention 5 people who play games multi platform for every person who plays PC games exclusively. That's not an argument for anything you've mentioned by any means though. Oh yeah sure you can come up with 5 (probably a whole lot more) people who play both PS3 and Wii, or PC and Nintendo DS, versus 1 PC exclusive gamer. Who couldn't? The real question is: could you bring forward 5 PC+Console (not handheld) gamers, versus 1 PC exclusive? Maybe if you restrict it to America, but even then it seems highly unlikely. Quote:
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