| Re: Console or PC?
I've just remembered a point I forgot to make in my post, which Lucien and Commonmind touched upon - PCs are ahead in the technology department. A few years ago, it was estimated that PCs were five years ahead of consoles tech-wise. I don't know the figure now, but I guess it'll be a year or two.
When Gears of War came out for the 360, I read reviews (but only to keep my 360 friends happy - they were this close to chaining me down and reading them out to me in scenes reminiscent of a Vogon poetry recital), and from the Games industry (who seem to be mostly console gamers), everything was really positive. Then I heard, on some podcast or other, a PC developer talking about it, and generally slagging it off. "Bump-mapping?" he said, "We've been using bump-mapping for years! Yet consoles are only just using it?!". Whilst PC games were using it and technologies beyond it, "bump-mapping" to console developers was something Geography nuts did to their wives. |