gta5 for pc petition

[nilbog]

Sign sign sign.

http://www.change.org/petitions/rock...se-gta-v-on-pc

[SamwiseRed]

gta series so much better on console though, i guess ill sign it for a fungi on red ofc.

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[Auditore]

nothing is better on console, we call that "pc with a joystick"

[stormlord]

PC-gaming market is shrinking. Sorry to say. It's too niche.

There're just so many portable devices now and, of course, console gaming machines. They're not going to sell games for the IPHONE or IPAD2 in Fred Meyer - they'll sell them online. Same can be said for the increasing use of notebooks. Big games won't run on those, so they're getting their games online too.

Perfect example is my local department store. It used to be that the PC section took up almost a whole aisle. But these days, it's just a corner. At the same time, if you go on over to the console section, it consumes a whole aisle. The same story can be told about Electronics Boutique. I used to go over there to look for PC games. Over the years the PC areas shrunk and the console area grew. It was pretty bad. For that matter, EB closed down a few years back and was replaced by a store that solely sells console games.

I think the future of PC games is mostly digital - no box copies.

[Grimbeorn]

Originally Posted by stormlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It used to be that the PC section took up almost a whole aisle. But these days, it's just a corner. At the same time, if you go on over to the console section, it consumes a whole aisle.

Well, there's this thing called Steam. It's a pretty cool way to instantly get the games you want, rather than have to go to a department store. It's doing pretty well.

[stormlord]

Originally Posted by Grimbeorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well, there's this thing called Steam. It's a pretty cool way to instantly get the games you want, rather than have to go to a department store. It's doing pretty well.

Well genius then tell me why console games aren't using steam too? Do you think consoles are just behind the times? I think you're only half right, you're missing some variables in your equation.

I pointed out portables and notebooks as a big reason that we're increasingly going online for our games. Big game companies can't market to smaller devices because of the higher system requirements necessary. The pc-gaming market has shrunk as a result of the increasing use of portables and gaming consoles. So it's more profitable for these companies to go to the consoles. Internet bandwidth is still a concern even in this day and age so if you want to market to hundreds of millions of consumers it's a better bet to sell box copies.

Not to mention that developing a game for BOTH the PC and consoles takes time/money. It's hard to do both equally well. I can imagine that some companies want to focus on one or the other.

In the end, you can pick it apart however you want. It's easy to pick what you want and discard what you don't want. But the bottom line is that PC-gaming is increasingly behind the times. People like their portables. They like how easy it's to play a game on a console. PC's are too complicated and bulky.

Are you the same guy that said Linux is better than Windows? That guy that said Windows sucks?? The guy that pretended that Linux, given a chance, would become a worldwide phenomenon? Well, sir, the reality says the opposite. Linux won on the business front in some respects, but it never caught on in the general PC population. Cold hard reality. The same is happening with gaming. Things are as they're.

(this is not to say that linux or a non-windows OS won't do well on portables or in the future on pc's)

Because my spider sense tells me that you're trying to argue something similar.

[Auditore]

consoles dont use steam because that would take revenue from the console creators who sell the game at retail price and never have sales.

[Auditore]

Also, steam has been pretty adamant about staying as a PC gaming platform.

PC gaming isn't dying. If people like you were correct, PC gaming would have been dead by the release of PS3/Xbox 360. Consoles aren't replacements for PCs. They're training wheels.

[Auditore]

hey no shut up pc gaming is dead because of halo 4

[SamwiseRed]

pcs good for mmos or games where you need to have conversations and shit. some games are just better on consoles.