Steam vs Console?

[Sky]

Steam > Console for days. Does anyone think next gen consoles will effect PC gaming hugely? Thoughts.

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Kakka:

Rumours going around that CA made Rome 2 consolified, and thats one of the reasons it was bad. Preparing for a next gen console launch. They have been dumbing down games big time for consoles for years. And next gen still is far behind a decent rig

F consoles, and i loved my 360 for a good 5 years

Firstly, I doubt there's much truth in that at all. The simple reason being that although the game IS dumbed down to a degree, the game suffered from some horrendous bugs. I'm fairly sure releasing a game in a bugged state is not a criteria for a certain platform.

Secondly, consoles are NOT responsible for dumbing down anything - they are inanimate objects. Furthermore, if you really mean that the existence of consoles are the reason that developers are dumbing down games with them in mind, then that's also complete rubbish.

Note that consoles existed long before the PC was a twinkle in IBM's eye. If there were any truth in what you say, then that would be a paradox.

The only thing that dumbs down gaming are the choices of the developers themselves, in this often-silly attempt to be all things to all people (the ridiculous repeated phrase "appealing to a wider audience").

Consoles have NOTHING to do with it. I do wish people would think a little more deeply about this before making crass assumptions like this. Consoles have their faults, but this myth of "dumbing down" is not one of them.

PCs have their problems too. That's all there is to it - pros and cons on both sides.

[funtara]

console and pc is very different two platform. console has one aim, game. But PC use very different areas. Because of that console is always be one step ahead from PC.

[supermany]

PC will always be better cause of the easy way to upgrade

[ntassassin]

agreed

[Mugge]

Look at shooter on Pc they are much better so PC FTW

[wkE^]

PC :D

[Dr. Phil Good]

PC is and always will be above consoles, unless you cheap out on a computer..

[Skypirate]

PC will beat everything naturally although Steam console will definitely stir things up if the price is right.

[bessmertni]

The advantage consoles have is there stability. Developers don't have to worry about millions of variations in hardware configuration. That's why a lot of them develop for consoles first then port to PC if the game is successful enough. On the other hand you don't have the modding ability on console games or player build levels/add-ons like you do for PC's.

[Kerrigan]

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[Hotknight]

Nothing will replace a good PC with a keyboard and a mouse

[Big Boss]

Enybody is goring to say pc

[pepaN]

PC all the way baby!

[Oracle]

There is nothing better than a good pc

[◙Cloud◙]

yeah yeah