True enough, but I've personally only ever seen two or three game breaking bugs in console games. In part ecause of the issue you just mentioned, that they can't be patched like a pc game, and partly I admit because they only have to deal with a single hardware architecture.
I think the article as a whole is looking at the situation the wrong way. The issue isn't the hardware on either side, it's what the software providers decide to support. Their decisions while based on sales volume and profit margin, also end up influencing those same figures, and I think any real damage to PC gaming is mostly coming from games being released early without broader testing, and related problems of minor hardware incompatibilities . The more companies cut margin by relying on after-market patching, the more casual gamers go over to consoles, imo. Now, that's only one issue, and much like hardware differences it's hardly the whole picture, but I think the mentality of the software providers themselves is the greater issue in terms of continuing pc support and what direction it takes.
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It was just on a three-hour tour...
(There's gotta be a better Gilligan joke in all of this, I just can't think of it now.)
Says it all, really.
True enough, but I've personally only ever seen two or three game breaking bugs in console games. In part ecause of the issue you just mentioned, that they can't be patched like a pc game, and partly I admit because they only have to deal with a single hardware architecture.
I think the article as a whole is looking at the situation the wrong way. The issue isn't the hardware on either side, it's what the software providers decide to support. Their decisions while based on sales volume and profit margin, also end up influencing those same figures, and I think any real damage to PC gaming is mostly coming from games being released early without broader testing, and related problems of minor hardware incompatibilities . The more companies cut margin by relying on after-market patching, the more casual gamers go over to consoles, imo. Now, that's only one issue, and much like hardware differences it's hardly the whole picture, but I think the mentality of the software providers themselves is the greater issue in terms of continuing pc support and what direction it takes.