Quote Originally Posted by Evangela View Post
LAME console market...

Japanese people always develop their consoles even though it never better than PC

how could PS3 cost me 280 USD since it doesn't better than my PC?

curse you!! all of Japanese game companies except CAPC....
Japan had dominated and still has the largest share of the Console market. Developing the console market is in the best interest of Japan's gaming industry. PC hardware has been primarily dominated by Silicon Valley giants and Taiwan, Japan's gaming giants have a lot less to gain in the PC industry. Seriously how many units get sold for PC versions of offline FF's worldwide compared to their console counterpart?

PC versions of any game also open the door to hacking/pirating the game. Yeah consoles get hacked as well, but not nearly on the scale and ease as PC platform. (which we see a lot of right now in FFXIV)

It's actually common practice now, that console manufacturers lose money for every unit sold, it started with the original xbox, but its made up by misc hardware sales, royalties from licensing disc format to game developers and game sales.

Basing performance of a console on it's price is folly, but nonetheless PC hardware advances every quarter or so of the year. consoles are about every 4+ years.