I dont think it had anything to do with an "aging demographic" and "complex PC-Derived" game genres on consoles. The consoles expanded the gaming market to a far greater audience that covered far bigger age groups that PCs wouldnt even dream of. Consoles were setting new standards for games.
I dont understand that. The pc has had games that cover the most simplistic things aimed at pre schoolers right up to incredibly complex games that accurately simulate a Russian SA-75M Dvina surface to air radar and missile system and has done so for decades. What age group do you think the pc does not cover ?
I think that was From Software's first PC release. The original Dark Souls IIRC. And yes the reason they gave was that they didn't know how to let the user adjust the resolution.
I got the impression they didn't even know that was a thing that people did.
These are exactly the examples that illustrate my point. PCs were very stuck in niche games and educational software.
niche games like doom, quake, command and conquer, grand theft auto, need for speed ?
your point was that console somehow catered to more age groups than p.c
that is absolutely dwarfed by the pc's game library (roughly 74,000), console grew the game market because they were cheap and easy to use and worked off a tv
Surely there are exceptions you can find but it still shows how limited the scope was in PC gaming. First person, simulators and strategy games is where the PC was most popular for with an additional exception here and there. You could also inflate the PC library by adding old games in. But it was the 32 bit and 128 but era that exploded gaming to all ages and larger groups thanks to consoles.
they're still part of the library, I bet if I limited it to only games released during the lifetime of a console it would still be a bigger number. I added steam just to demonstrate the massive size of the pc gaming library not just bigger than any console but bigger than all consoles combined
and rpg's and adventure games, I could say fighting games and platformers are where the console were popular why are the genre's popular on the pc somehow less worthy than the genre's popular on the console? I can name genre's the pc has that were not available on console can you name genres available on console not available on pc?
Putt Putt isn't exactly an educational game. Yes, it's marketed towards kids, and yes, they might learn something, but the thing they are going to learn is how to play an adventure game. 1993's Putt Putt Goes to the Moon is going to teach you just about as much about space as 1993's Leisure Suit Larry Shape Up or Slip Out is going to teach you about going to a Spa. The games Humongous made aren't like Reader Rabbit or Jump Start, they are just point and click adventure games with kid themed characters and puzzles.
Most of us were meant to be console gamers, The PC was meant for productivity at the time. I got my first PC in late 1995, but tbh I'm very surprised at how popular PCs were, even for niche games, 'cos computers were soooo prohibitively expensive.
3000€ is 1 spleen, but not an arm and a leg.
