To anyone wondering why many new games are ports:

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/100057-13-console-losing
(and this article is 3 years old, it's only gotten worse)

People want to not work at gaming and not fuss with their PC.
I hate it too, but it's reality - Valve is just running its business as it sees fit, trying to make profits which is notoriously difficult in game development.

Before you flame about this being off topic, I am posting this since I've read so many posts about 'console port' as if that is going to 'hurt' the company.

Not making games playable on consoles will hurt the company - that's where the money is.

[emtwo]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/100057-13-console-losing
(and this article is 3 years old, it's only gotten worse)

People want to not work at gaming and not fuss with their PC.
I hate it too, but it's reality - Valve is just running its business as it sees fit, trying to make profits which is notoriously difficult in game development.

Before you flame about this being off topic, I am posting this since I've read so many posts about 'console port' as if that is going to 'hurt' the company.

Not making games playable on consoles will hurt the company - that's where the money is.

I believe Valve's success is largely due to the fact that they are (were) the only company not making crappy console ports.

They're the biggest fish in an apparently-niche market. Once they sell out to consoles, they won't be the biggest fish anymore. There's no reason to believe this couldn't possibly turn out badly for them.

Furthermore, the idea that booting up your PC is somehow work or that it takes any significant amount of time is a ridiculous misconception.

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I agree so far as to say that's how Valve got started. Now that consoles are so popular, they are realizing that's where the new profits are.

Also, I did not say I agreed that there was anything to playing a PC game. But people would rather pop the disk in and play guarenteed it would run well than deal with installation and maybe it does and maybe it doesn't work well on their current machine.

[emtwo]

I agree so far as to say that's how Valve got started. Now that consoles are so popular, they are realizing that's where the new profits are.

Also, I did not say I agreed that there was anything to playing a PC game. But people would rather pop the disk in and play guarenteed it would run well than deal with installation and maybe it does and maybe it doesn't work well on their current machine.

There may be a bigger market for console games, but it's also much more divided. There's no guarantee that Valve will get a big enough share of the market to make it worthwhile.

And if they do, then I guess we're screwed. We'd just have to wait for the next small company to fill the void in PC gaming, get big, then sell out. Rinse and repeat. It's just disappointing, is all.

[VOSTAS]

Money is in drug business also,do you suggest we support that also?

Do you work for valve,or someone you know works there? You want them to make money no matter what?

when a game is made for consoles and PC is is always pc gamers the ones that suffer


witcher 2
deus ex revolution
bf3
mw2
black ops
crysis 2
ETC.

[recon828]

@emtwo
I completely agree, I hate it. I was looking forward to Portal 2 and was disappointed, then was told that it wasn't a port.

It may not be that CS:GO is a direct software port, but the design of the game is to attract console players. You don't do this without dumbing it down somewhat.... Regardless of whether or not console players could play with K/M

[recon828]

Money is in drug business also,do you suggest we support that also?

Do you work for valve,or someone you know works there? You want them to make money no matter what?

when a game is made for consoles and PC is is always pc gamers the ones that suffer


witcher 2
deus ex revolution
bf3
mw2
black ops
crysis 2
ETC.


^ I agree?

I don't want valve to appeal to console gamers, but I think they see a profit in that approach.