PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Kirito]

The point of having a ps3 version is for people with lower quality pc's to play with the most enjoyment.... Meaning reduced lag and graphic issues... That's really the only reason for it... It can also allow new means of adding trophies and better support for gamepad... (I use the ps3 as my gamepad but I have to enable it with a program each time when I want to use it, with the ps3 version I don't need to do that)... It also opens the door to ps3 players that may not have a pc, don't like traditional mmo's, want to think of this more as an rpg rather than mmo, people with low space in computer, and people who dislike playing computer games in general...

[ispano]

'Cause it allows a wider audience. Not everyone has a great PC, and some people just don't like playing on a PC. ...And SOME people don't own a PC at all (such as mac owners).

Actually Mac owners do have PCs, they just may not have Windows.

[Malakii]

Actually Mac owners do have PCs, they just may not have Windows.

Lol i thought so, but wasn't going to comment back on this because i thought maybe there was something i don't know.

[Kirito]

'Cause it allows a wider audience. Not everyone has a great PC, and some people just don't like playing on a PC. ...And SOME people don't own a PC at all (such as mac owners).

Mac owners could use boot camp. Thats what I use...

[Zehira]

http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

From what I see, OS X borrowed Linux features.

[ispano]

Also the person that said 360/720 might be possible, unlikely. It's primarily MS that prevented it from happening. They want to keep the system closed, ie wouldn't be able to play with other systems. Second is the issue of paying for Live in addition to the sub. Having worked for that particular area of MS for a while, what I learned reinforces this.

And before someone pipes up about XI, that was done to increase awareness/etc of the console early on.

[ispano]

http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

From what I see, OS X borrowed Linux features.

Well OSX is basically a variant of UNIX in the first place.

[Pseudopsia]

Actually FreeBSD. Both linux and FreeBSD are unix like operating systems that wine can be compiled for.

[Zehira]

Well OSX is basically a variant of UNIX in the first place.

Yep, from what I heard, old PowerPC apps cost more money for developers so that's why they changed it to UNIX one.

[Kirito]

Engineering companies still use unix since they offer the best graphic performance with the engineering software... And aren't all OS's nowadays derived from unix...