MMORPG.com recently carried this article addressing the future of MMO gaming, specifically the possibility of a platform shift from PC to console. After reading the article and a few pages of the reader comments related to it, I’m left with mixed feelings on the whole subject, especially after the Champions Online dual-platform release announcement.
Yes I am exclusively a PC gamer, though I do once in a while enjoy getting together with friends to play some silly console game for a lark. I am unrepentedly pro-PC and firmly believe in it’s superiority as a gaming platform, yadda, yadda, yadda…
That being said, some of the points brought up by the pro-Console crowd did strike a chord with me. A few noted that playing an MMO on a big screen HDTV would be quite an experience. Others brought up the fact that grinding while lying on your living-room couch would be the ultimate in comfort and luxury. These characteristics of console gaming do indeed look appealing to me and would, I think, represent a refreshing change of pace from what PC based MMO gaming entails.
From this I find that my mind has been ( slightly ) opened to the whole idea of console based MMO gaming, although there’s still a long way to go before making me a believer. Will be interesting to see where this all leads to two or three years down the road.
MMOs and the PC vs Console debate
February 28, 2008
MMORPG.com recently carried this article addressing the future of MMO gaming, specifically the possibility of a platform shift from PC to console. After reading the article and a few pages of the reader comments related to it, I’m left with mixed feelings on the whole subject, especially after the Champions Online dual-platform release announcement.
Yes I am exclusively a PC gamer, though I do once in a while enjoy getting together with friends to play some silly console game for a lark. I am unrepentedly pro-PC and firmly believe in it’s superiority as a gaming platform, yadda, yadda, yadda…
That being said, some of the points brought up by the pro-Console crowd did strike a chord with me. A few noted that playing an MMO on a big screen HDTV would be quite an experience. Others brought up the fact that grinding while lying on your living-room couch would be the ultimate in comfort and luxury. These characteristics of console gaming do indeed look appealing to me and would, I think, represent a refreshing change of pace from what PC based MMO gaming entails.
From this I find that my mind has been ( slightly ) opened to the whole idea of console based MMO gaming, although there’s still a long way to go before making me a believer. Will be interesting to see where this all leads to two or three years down the road.
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