| Re: Console or PC?
Now, while I consider myself a pretty devout PC gamer and an avid hardware enthusiast, I'm going to have to agree with almost every point Lenny has made and state that I also feel consoles are the superior platform...nowadays.
PC's were inherently more powerful than consoles for many years and developers had the technical legroom to really push the boundaries so they could create new and unique experiences that simply weren't possible on another platform. As time went by that gap closed significantly and it's now possible to deliver similar experiences across both the console and PC.
Crytek has been working on bringing the newest version of their engine to consoles and have expressed the power of current gen hardware (specifically the PS3) is capable of producing visuals on par with what we've seen on high-end PC's.
No doubt that we'll see a port of Crysis sometime soon (something Crytek thought impossible only a year ago and spoke very adamantly about).
Also, you just don't see any real innovation coming from the PC market anymore. Rather than producing the next big blockbuster title, everyone is more interested in reproducing the last big one...cashing in on the other guy's cash cow, as it were. The industry has become stale and stagnant and the days of the Diablo 2's, the Planescapes, the Deus Ex's and the Theif's are long past. If it weren't for Half Life 2 and its respective pals, the platform would be pretty barren at the moment. |