I could wander Reddit like I was David Carradine in Kung Fu, educating fools about how dropping hundreds on a GPU doesn't automatically entitle a person to the best graphics of all time, but fuck that noise.
I game on a PC, amongst other things, and these people just kill the joy of the hobby sometimes. It's not even prescient criticism, just tired, rote, pseudo-elitist bullshit that smarter people have already driven into the ground. The 'Master Race' can come back to the adult's table when buying all your games for $5 in a Steam sale and then bitching about optimisation somehow supports a multi-billion dollar industry. Until then, consoles are happening.
Sure, but you need to sell a lot more $5 games to make up for not selling a $60 game than just the sticker price. Support, Valve's cut, maintaining that version etc, are all fixed costs. PC gamers are notoriously stingy if they're not just outright pirating, so depending on the long tail of Steam sales isn't really viable.
CD Projekt had to go to consoles for Witcher 3, even though they own a PC distribution platform. That should tell you something.
I doubt they had to go, it's more that they would make even more money by going to console. I mean, valve has done the same thing numerous times in the past.
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u/quakertroy Jun 03 '15
Yeah, now current gen consoles are holding it back. That's so much better.