18th November 2007, 12:45 AM
The downside is obvious: when a game is simultaneously developed for PC and consoles, or developed first for consoles and then later ported to the PC, it gets dumbed down in comparsion to what it would have been like had it been a PC-first title. This is pretty much universally true in every genre that has been popular on the PC except stuff like platformers and puzzle games. It's certainly true for all simulation games, all strategy games, many FPSes, all FPS-RPG hybrids, adventure games, RPGs, racing games, etc...