Ya, but hardcore gamers rarely limit themselves to one console. And guess what? A lot of hardcore console gamers play on PC quite a bit, like you said, PC has dominated the FPS genre for years. And they still do.
FPS focus on consoles? Hardly. Unreal Championship is a console version of Unreal Tournament 2003, Halo was ported over, the whole Tom Clancy series (Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Raven Shield) is PC games, Doom III (rumors it might see Xbox) is a PC game, Counter-Strike is a PC game.
FPS dominate on PC thanks to the control setup, and online play. It could do much better on consoles if they released a keyboard and mouse, and gave players the true controls. Sure, I'd rather just see these games stay on PC, but if they wanna port them, at least do it right. And the online gaming aspect, it won't ever dominate in that area, because PCs allow you to host games, configure your own rules, setups, run your own admin software, etc.
Either way, I don't mind seeing Unreal Championship on Xbox. Halo is another story, cause of the long delay. But the rest, by all means, port it. But there are people who might have crappy outdated PCs, and people like me just looking to kick some Bond ass, and we want the keyboard/mouse setup.
And PE, I think it would work better on consoles. Other RPGs, like Diablo II, work so much better on PC.
|