When Doom was released several years ago, even then we talked about the contrast between console and PC, and how they erode market share and announced grandly as if it were old-fashioned play on PC . But
released Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and anticipated within few months, things changed radically.
same scenario, the time of the first Playstation, Saturn and Nintendo 64, these rumors were revived, almost like a fad, which periodically returns, but instead to scuttle a world, encourages him to revolutionize it was then that 3Dfx created a real difference of understanding of the PC gaming with Voodoo cards, where the difference was so glaring that any console within a very short time on a PC is emulated the best of the batch console, the Nintendo 64, a real slap in the face technology.
Dreamcast and Playstation 2, with the first unlucky, but still the second best-selling, marked Instead the passage from struggle for dominance play video in the format battle for Sony, which suffered the beating Betamax, DVD tied to each other by pushing the PS2's success itself, faced with a GD-ROM Sega console and a game-cube he chose, unfortunately, the mini DVD.
begin, tentatively, the first examples of online gaming on consoles, then aged in the struggle between the PS2 and Xbox 360 newcomer.
Many have seen the entry in the field of Microsoft as the swan song of PC gaming, primarily because the sole supplier operating system suitable for the game, second lowest for a segment to support Microsoft Game Studios has always been a bulwark.
Meanwhile, positive signs came from ID, which announced a spectacular E3 Doom 3 and proclaimed his love for the personal computer, not to mention the announcement of Half Life 2, which rebalance balances.
Xbox but was able to have that 'Halo a draft RTS on PC turned into FPS on consoles and then converted, and evil, for Windows, as well as the launch of Live, a gaming service, online payment that was not so important compared to the more mature field Pc, but also launched the console in an area just shy first beat.
We are today with yet another development, Xbox 360 and PS3, which combines the strategy of the format (Blue-ray) to multimedia, having a native HD, being able to download demos, patches, navigate, invading from all parts of the sacred spaces previously held by the Pc.
And what happens, that will reignite the rumors, proclamations, prophecies, and while everyone looks in the classic way, the store shelves, retail, these dark omens bring the device to evolve into a more mature digital and delivering different ways of using and if we are more profitable.
The problem, in fact, that these commentators are not assess the development costs, which are then reflected on the final price, because only one title on the profit reaches 10 While it is true that increase sales, it is also true that a mid-level project now costs $ 20 million, to reach heights of 100 million GTA IV.
numbers that seem high, but if you think about some other projects designed for PC pale, Blizzard in a single day by launching the expansion of Wolrd of Warcraft has grossed $ 110 million (again in a day, 2.8 million to cope with $ 40 not counting the collection edition), and the previous expansion yielded no less than $ 90 million (2.4 million copies sold on day one always).
All this without ever count Steam users who acquires an exponentially coming today to more than 15 million accounts, each offering deals end the seventh, and video game development costs by an insignificant but high potential, such as Braid and Trine.E 'So when I feel that PC gaming is dying smile, maybe this time will be delivering the digital revolution, or the project on-live we will discuss in a few days, but for sure the stimulus leads to progress.
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