Why aren’t home computers better for video games? How come I have to buy a separate video game platform?
woodthi asked:
In other words, how come video games are so much better on PS3 or XBox or Wii, etc.? Why can't they make equally good games for the computer so that I don't have to have both a computer and a game system?
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so the game company makes more money
Because compuers run lots of backup applications Xboxes dont
its all about the money remember that !
Because computers are designed to do a variety of things while a platform is designed for one purpose only. They also are designed to run on your HD tv which has a better resolution than the common computer CRT/monitor. The more lines of information you can get on the screen the crisper, clearer the image…its not just processor or bit size. Even if you made a game with the same 128-bit graphics, without a screen that can handle that much info, or renew the monitor lines, it will still look really bad! Attach a PS3 to an old color tv and you will see the quality drop as well.
Now why do you have to buy seperate games for each platform? The same reason you have to buy seperate programs for Win & Mac…different languages, different ways of reading the info. You can find “emulators” for some platforms which will allow you to play your disked games on your PC, but the quality is low because of the nature of your computer to do so many things at once whether you know of it or not). PC games rely on your computer to keep certain programs for multiple use so disks don’t need to store that data (such as Quicktime, macromedia, etc) – that’s why you can have Win/Mac disks…Platform disks need to carry all that information for EACH game, which takes up so much room they couldn’t put a second game language on there if they wanted to. Some PC games are switching to DVD formats, in some cases it helps resolution but mostly it just keeps you from having to do the “floppy disk shuffle” but still it would not hold enough information to get more than one platform on them.