360/PS3 FIFA 09 would only run on “1-3% of PCs”

I missed this thread when I searched but this is completely laughable... and EA must think that the OC gaming community are stupid or seomthing. If they really think that FIFA 2009 will only run on 1-3% of PC's then they must be talking about worlwide, including the people who will never buy a FIFA game.

People who buy this game can handle a next-gen engine no problem, and if they're worried about performance on some older PC's... haven't they heard of those wonderful little things called detail sliders?

Yet more proof of EA's growing contempt for the PC market... they really must be making a real effort to be the most disreputable games company in history now.
 
all EA have done over time is buy out smaller developers, cornering the market, messing up certain great franchises after they have brought out the developer, and now slowly seem to be pulling out the PC games market, leaving the very people that made them what they are in the lurch.
 
What they are saying is true in one sense but silly in another.

On one hand, if you take into account ALL computers, yes the 1-3% is correct. Both the 360 and Cell have a hell of a lot more processing power than your average office PC, which is what is most common. Don't forget, we are all computer geeks and the vast majority of people don't even have dual core yet, let alone a decent graphics card.

But on the other hand, only people with a decent PC tend to actually go out and buy PC games. I know loads of PC with PCs who don't even look at PC games because they don't look at it as a gaming device. So that would negate the 1-3% and make EA look rather stupid.

What they are really saying is two fold 1) they made a game that is either incredibly optimised on the consoles, or it has utterly pathetic coding - no guesses as to which and 2) they just can't be bothered to make a PC port as they think we will just pirate it anyway.
 
WOW with 10 million subscribers.

How many copies of console games do they shift?

I have had a 360 and have a PS3 PS3 is brilliant for upscaling DVDs i simply can't get used to the controller nor do I really want to which is why I decided to sell the 360 and buy a 4870 with the money.
 
This claim just makes me laugh. If they don't want to make a version for the PC just say that there are no plans to make it for the PC platform rather than make laughable excuse.
 
I can see the PC market becoming more and more a niche market. Games will become more indepth and ultimately more mature (not titties). This is good for PC games in my opinion. I love RTS games and theres no way a console could deliver my needs in that area. But i do own a PS3 for sports games, as this is somewhere PCs are going to really suffer in the future
 
I can see the PC market becoming more and more a niche market. Games will become more indepth and ultimately more mature (not titties). This is good for PC games in my opinion.

I think we're seeing the opposite... PC gaming used to be the place to get original, in-depth games made by devs that took their time over delivering good, solid content. Nowadays the content is increasingly being lightened and dumbed down by large software houses in favour of squeezing the profits to the max and cutting down on expense and development time. The rise of consoles and cross-platform titles are also seeing to that.
 
Let's face it, consoles are getting more like PCs all the time anyway.

They're practically Dell Lite, wouldn't surprise me if they come with displays soon. ;)
 
I think we're seeing the opposite... PC gaming used to be the place to get original, in-depth games made by devs that took their time over delivering good, solid content. Nowadays the content is increasingly being lightened and dumbed down by large software houses in favour of squeezing the profits to the max and cutting down on expense and development time. The rise of consoles and cross-platform titles are also seeing to that.

I mean for devolopers that want to focus on one area. The dumbed down games you speak of are coming from the EA and Ubisoft stable mainly. Plenty of companies like are focusing on PC only type games esp in the RTS and MMO department
 
Played the DEMO of FIFA 09 and the controls are weird (probably need to play more to get used to it) but the graphics are appalling, the Pro evo games look a hell of a lot better on the PC. Weird thing is in the past FIFA used to have the better graphics while Pro evo played better. Think I'll probably stick with Pro evo again this time as I'm not buying a console just for this game, the FIFA on the consoles might be better than Pro Evo but I doubt PC version will be.
 
I mean for devolopers that want to focus on one area. The dumbed down games you speak of are coming from the EA and Ubisoft stable mainly. Plenty of companies like are focusing on PC only type games esp in the RTS and MMO department

Hopefully your talking rubbish because RTS and MMO's bore me to death
 
I have a Sexbox, and the graphics suck balls. PCs are the most amazing gaming platform on the planet.

So there.
 
of people that would actually buy a game for their PC< a newish game I'd guess 80-90% of them have more than enough juice to do so. 1-3% of ALL, literally all computers probably is accurate for who has enough cpu juice for it. However 1-3% of ALL computers is still in the 10's of millions range, probably well over 100mil and more than they could ever hope to sell the game too. Ridiculous, completely ridiculous argument.

But then again I'm not to upset, Fifa, is a pile of utter crap, always will be a pile of utter crap, and is no better in style/content than having nba 2008/2009/2010 being released. Probably makes them quite a bit for almost no effort but anyone with half a brain should stay away from the games which get "yearly" releases claiming to be earth shatteringly new and the bi-yearly tournement versions with pretty different colours.
 
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