The Force doesn't Unleash on the PC
The Force doesn't Unleash on the PC
Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game recently gave an interview in which he announced that The Force Unleashed won't have a PC verison.
The game, which is highly anticipated by Star Wars fans and sports various new graphic and physics tricks, will be out in September for the PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PS2, and Xbox 360. The reason Cameron Suey provided is the big difference between "big gaming rigs" and "low end PCs".
The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game.
Interestingly, even the hardware hungry Crysis runs extremely well on a $1500 dollar machine, so that example smells like an excuse. If a game can be shipped for Xbox 360 (which's hardware is, at best, on par with average gaming PCs), it should be able to get released for PC too. Of course that game won't run on office PCs with an old graphics board, but that's what these hardware specs on the back of the box are for and that's what PC gamers are used to since decades.
Why deny people their choice on which platform to play the game?
Frankly, that looks more like a poor excuse for poor engine programming.
Or there are other, non-technical reasons.
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Poor engine programming and too much effort to program a good PC version...
Well, bugger.
Wow, my Wii is equal to $4,000 high-end system...
I think the real reason why there'll be no PC version is really the market. Games gotta make money in the end. And if we have a good look at the PC games market then it can be seen that prices for games drop in no time, and piracy is as alive as it's always been.
one more time i'am happy to own a console scince the end of last year
It's hilarious. They make Wii, DS, PS2 and PSP versions but no PC version.
This has to be a marketing reason.
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Ok I'll keep that in mind the next time =)
Wohoo Reporter! Now I don't need to point out typos, I can edit them myself :D
Sounds like an excuse to me too, the big technological gap between high-end systems and low-end systems exists for nearly as long as the PC-platform itself. My Top3 real reasons are:
Any low spec PC can produce more flops than a Wii, DS, PS2 and PSP and a high spec PC is better than PS3 or Xbox 360 and they can't be seriously saying that any of the low spec console versions doesn't show a "watered down version" of the high spec consoles'.
I think they don't want to make a PC version because they sell more to consoles and I also believe that they get pressure from M$ and $ony.
Lucasarts had it's start on the PC and this is now an obvious slap in the face of PC gamers.
This is an insult, I will never buy another Lucasarts game!
Well, maybe we're in for a technological masterpiece, with the graphics of the DS and PSP versions looking just as neat as those on the XBox...^^
Yeah right, they have to ship drugs with the game to accomplish this...
Or their Xbox version is really crappy :D
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