Consoles have advantages.... like, you can run games on them, in a shack in the woods with no online. (At least, games that don't have a dedicated online component.) Also, they can be more stable - since they work on a set piece of hardware, unlike the PC which can have conflicts with the eighteen billion different combos of mobos/GPUs/CPUs/drivers/etc. (again, depends on how good a job the programmers do).

Obviously, they also have disadvantages - like not being able to upgrade the hardware. And no modding. But it's not right to say that consoles have NO advantages.

To be fair, those advantages are created purely because of the fact that many developers get lazy and just do their work properly on the consoles (because it's a lot easier), then implement minimal workload into a shoddy PC port. Sad but true.

You can run games on a PC in a shack in the woods with no online component either, as long as it doesn't involve an online requirement.

Its a sad fact that most games sell more on the consoles. Someone who is willing to buy a pc to play games on generally is a pretty "hardcoe" gamer, and there are more casual players than hardcoe.

Definitely a minority...but implying they are all criminals is out of order.

Haha so true, yet it never will. As long as there are intelligent consumers that refuse to be fooled with a shiney Rules Box, PC gaming will never die.

I read an article last year where it was estimated that by 2014, PC gaming revenues will exceed console gaming. Granted, though, that has less to do with Skyrim type games and more to do with the rise in popularity of Free-to-Play games and microtransactions from the likes of Facebook games.

I feel that the recent PC love shown from Bethesda (performance patches etc) are directly related to the probability that the PC sales were significantly higher than the 90% console share propaganda we were fed.
I don't believe that the PC version has sold more that the console version at this time but in the long term i feel it will overtake by a significant margin.

The PC game sales are not as insignificant as the 90% share obviously suggests & it would be great to see some figures which could clarify this.

1. Collectors edition
2. Physical copy for display on shelf with other games
3. Faster install
4. Dives your DVD drive some love.


But you cant just ignore half of what the software does.

As a service, Steam is great. It has amazing sales. I have nearly 100 games on steam alone. But on the flip side, as a DRM, it is a horrible service because of its near mandatory updates, inability to turn off steam while playing games, and when steam goes down (I till eventually) what happens to the thousands of dollars ive spent on games?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120126/09565417551/why-piracy-is-indispensable-survival-our-culture.shtml

An interesting read on how piracy preserves old software that would otherwise disappear forever.



Even at 1 million PC sales, thats about $60million. At 3 million sales, that is about $180million.

Regardless of which platform sold more, PC sales god them a nice chunk of change.

Lets not forget beth gets more money from a game bought on steam than a game bought in a store. A lot more. If they 360 and PS3 sold more copies, no doubt it was less money to beth. Also the game will sell on steam a lot longer than people will buy it for consoles.

I wanted to give DA:O another try after buying it at launch when it was unplayable. Only thing was my disc was left out and thus DEAD. SO yea, its good in a few ways

From my experience as a minecraft server owner and talking to lots of people around the world (iceland, netherlands, germany, canada, australia ect) most of them pirate games because they cant afford them and would not have bought them anyway. Whenever I hear a dev complain about piracy I just point to this and crysis's 4 million sales as a PC exclusive then say Please continue, my good sir. lol.