The debate has raged for years, Console games vs traditional PC games. Now I say traditional, because the use of a keyboard and mouse for gaming movement on the PC has been around for many years now. From a PC perspective, they've always had the upper hand. More powerful video cards, more accurate input for first person shooters (using mouse and keyboard is ideal!) and a massive base of PC users to sell to.
For console vendors, they had to first sell a specialised device into the living room before they could start selling games. But now, they are getting much more powerful hardware, blueray drives and the like even before PCs are seeing them in the mainstream. The game designers for consoles also have a solid, set of hardware specs to work with - they know there won't be any change so the code can be totally accurate and push the gear the limit.
On the pc they can't do this, software games developers need to ensure that the game will run on all sorts of hardware, software and systems.
One thing swinging games back into the favor of PCs is the new releases of online free browser games; the likes of the evony game and kingory game now free to play are gobbling up internet gamers very quickly because accounts are free.
Will this trend see more PC based and internet based games dominating?
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