30th April 2005, 1:54 PM
Sorry OB1, but of COURSE the PC is in competition with the consoles. Most people own consoles, not super beefed PCs, but for those with gaming quality machines, they often ARE pushed to buy a system because they can't get the PC version, or if the game is already on PC, they don't bother getting the console. Isn't that pretty much what defines competition in marketting?
Listen, I really don't care what the school may or may not say about this, because I have never been affected by a commercial, so I'm convinced marketting is gibberish for weak minded fools. The question is, under what real logic outside of "they were being honest about this, this isn't just a stunt" do you state that the PC market really is completely divorced from the console market? What can you say that gets me to ignore the many examples I've seen in forums, and personally, of people actually deciding where to put their money based on whether a game is available for PC or a console? It would have to be pretty compelling, that's all I have to say.
Listen, I really don't care what the school may or may not say about this, because I have never been affected by a commercial, so I'm convinced marketting is gibberish for weak minded fools. The question is, under what real logic outside of "they were being honest about this, this isn't just a stunt" do you state that the PC market really is completely divorced from the console market? What can you say that gets me to ignore the many examples I've seen in forums, and personally, of people actually deciding where to put their money based on whether a game is available for PC or a console? It would have to be pretty compelling, that's all I have to say.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)