(01-15-2009, 12:12 AM)peaches link Wrote: No, nobody really makes PC-only games like that anymore because the market is so tiny it just wouldn't be profitable. And you can easily run the games on a two-year old card and I do. Consider Assassin's Creed. It debuted on PS3 (an expensive system), but also on the X360: now, a $200 machine. The minimum specs require a dual-core processor, a $100+ investment on its own if you want staying power, then add other parts and that skyrockets. Mine cost $800 when I bought it. Yeah, it's still a decent system, but when you think about it, it cost 4x as much an Xbox 360 and in a develop-and-port type of industry, it's really no more useful than one.

PCs are a heftier investment to begin with, and are obsolescent right out of the box. The console "generation" concept tends to get it right in that when you stake your greenbacks on a console, you know a couple of things:
A) You're not being outdone by your neighbor. By anybody. Unless they buy a different console or a PC.
B) Everybody's playing with more or less the same gear, no getting trumped by some shut-in misanthrope with a seven-gajillion DPI laser mouse, a Zboard, and a 6-pack of Bawls'.
C) If your console breaks down, you can go cry to Mamasoft and they'll ship you a new one.
D) Your system will be as current as everybody else's for at least a couple of years.

And they haven't made any huge technological leaps besides, perhaps, upgrading their default APIs to DX10 (not huge in itself) and introducing shader 3.0 (an old innovation). But it seems reasonable to a lot of developers to build an engine from the ground up for every game they make, Unreal 3 and Source being exceptions to that, and apparently it costs a lot of money to build instead of license.

(01-15-2009, 12:22 AM)shoopfox link Wrote: Also, like Wedge (and yourself) said, there aren't any major innovations with gaming technology coming out anytime soon. PC hardware prices are plateauing, and a pretty decent gaming rig can be built for around the same price as a PS3.

(01-15-2009, 12:03 AM)MrGrey link Wrote: i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...

(01-15-2009, 12:59 AM)Vongore link Wrote: [quote author=MrGrey link=topic=2134.msg61430#msg61430 date=1231995806]
i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...

(01-15-2009, 01:11 AM)Blues link Wrote: [quote author=Vongore link=topic=2134.msg61441#msg61441 date=1231999185]
[quote author=MrGrey link=topic=2134.msg61430#msg61430 date=1231995806]
i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...

(01-15-2009, 12:59 AM)Vongore link Wrote: [quote author=MrGrey link=topic=2134.msg61430#msg61430 date=1231995806]
i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...

(01-15-2009, 12:12 AM)peaches link Wrote: B) Everybody's playing with more or less the same gear, no getting trumped by some shut-in misanthrope with a seven-gajillion DPI laser mouse, a Zboard, and a 6-pack of Bawls'.

(01-15-2009, 07:33 AM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Blues link=topic=2134.msg61442#msg61442 date=1231999867]
[quote author=Vongore link=topic=2134.msg61441#msg61441 date=1231999185]
[quote author=MrGrey link=topic=2134.msg61430#msg61430 date=1231995806]
i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...

(01-15-2009, 05:16 PM)peaches link Wrote: [quote author=HeK link=topic=2134.msg61459#msg61459 date=1232022806]
[quote author=Blues link=topic=2134.msg61442#msg61442 date=1231999867]
[quote author=Vongore link=topic=2134.msg61441#msg61441 date=1231999185]
[quote author=MrGrey link=topic=2134.msg61430#msg61430 date=1231995806]
i will pirate everything forever.. music, movies, and games until the whole system breaks down and collapses.  I feel there shouldn't be a price tag on certain items, people should pay what they think they should.  I'm sure many of you are thinking "well then people would pay nothing" and I don't feel that is true... look what Radiohead did, they had their fans pay whatever they wanted for "In Rainbows" and made more money then they ever did on any album.  I think if people really enjoy a certain game or whatever they will pay good money to show support.  Just my theory...