Let me put it this way, do you really want to spend the extra 100+ bucks to upgrade your computer to spec?

There're so many great games coming out to the PC this year, Quake Wars, Crysis, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, World in Conflict, Hellgate: London... just to name a few, so I really couldn't care less about Fracture not being on the PC. When was the last time LA actually released a 9/10 rated, GOTY contending multiplatform game? Not since original KOTOR. Chances are Fracture is gonna suck just like most of their recent games do.

Cost to play 1 PS3 game the way it's meant to be played:

console - $599.99
HDMI cable - $79.99
game - $59.99
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$739.97
state tax here is 7.75%
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$797.32

$800 for one game... brilliant... Would you like an extra controller with that? Maybe an HDMI TV if you don't have one?

Meh, consoles are so overrated, in my opinion. The one thing consoles actually are good for is making multiplaying more social. It doesn't however make up for the huge loss in oppurtunities opening up for editing and what not in the PC games. Hell, I still play Star Wars Rebellion due to its life being prolonged through editing.

As for graphics, it'll be better on the console (in most cases), but I guess that all comes down to how important you think graphics are. To me, it means very little. I'd rather have a great game to play rather then a beautiful game with little content.

It'd be nice to see another Lucas Arts title being released to the PC soon, I've been quite dissapointed learning that neither Fracture or Force Unleashed will be released for the PC.

Might I say, statistics report that the PC market(in terms of revenue), is actually BIGGER than the console market. Don't believe me? Consider World of Warcraft. Blizzard didn't even release one game last year. look at their revenues now. IMO, between the PS3's $500+ price and the lack of any earth shattering leaps forward in next-gen games, I'm thinking PC gaming is not dying. Perhaps it is consoles that will end up failing. Now i am not putting down LA or Sony, or even MS, but IMO the PS3 and 360 might very well be the last great consoles. So it is at LA's disadvantage to leave the PC market.

How do you figure they're abandoning PC users? As I pointed out earlier, all the Battlefront, KotOR, and Lego Starwars games came out for PC, as did Republic Commando, and Empire at War came out exclusively for the PC.

They're abandoning PC users because they last two games they've announced arent going to launch on the PC? There will probably be another game or two announced this year, maybe more. Besides, they'll probably port these games to the PC 6 months to a year after they're released.

allow me to point out that for the price of a ps3 or 360, not the Wii though, i can upgrade my pc to beat the crap out of whatever console i bought. with quad-core processors hitting the market, consoles are going to fall far behind in terms of performance

That's only true if you already own an expensive PC. And that's not even true currently, the PS3's processor is much more powerful than any PC processor out there, even than a Quad-core. Do the research like I have, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Big deal, the year is only getting started as far as game announcements go.

In addition, in the future, as console price climbs, owning multiples will eventually be impossible, making the PC the best way to play.

Talk about a biased opinion. The average console gamer owns more than one console as it is. I own all three of the previous generation consoles and I intend to own all three current gen consoles by around this time next year if not before then. And a high quality PC is ALWAYS gonna be more expensive than a console. If you want to keep up with the PC industry, you have to buy new stuff every year, and every 3-5 years you have to buy a whole new PC (wow, just like the consoles). Right now my PC runs at the lower quality levels for all the new games coming out, I need to upgrade it, but to do so I'll need to buy a new motherboard, new processor, new video card, a physics enhancement card, new RAM, etc. That's gonna cost me more than it will to buy all three consoles. Unless of course I buy products that arent top of the line, in which case I have to upgrade my PC even sooner. And in addition to all that, with PC games you have to worry about the game being compatible with your hardware. You dont have the problem with a console game; everyone's system is exactly the same. It's much easier to program for a console than a PC.

So again, my favorite platform to play on is the PC, but that doesn't mean I dont play on consoles. Every platform has something to offer, even if it's just exclusive games. To say that the PC is the dominating platform is just plain wrong, and to say that it's the one that makes most sense to develop for doesn't take into account any of the facts. You're welcome to like it best (just as I do), but dont try to tell me the other platforms dont make any sense. If you dont like consoles, dont buy one, but you're missing out on some of the best games that have come out in the last 20 years.

If your suggesting someone should buy a brand new console just because they want to play one game, well then your an idiot...sorry.

Firstly, calling me an idiot is flaming. I'm not gonna report it or anything, I'm just giving you a friendly warning because I know how the mods here work. You can call my ideas stupid, but once you call me stupid, it's flaming. Now you can call me stupid all day and I wont care, just keep this in mind with other people, no reason for you to get banned over a simple discussion.

Secondly, you didn't read what I wrote. I never said people should buy a console for just one game. I said "If you dont want to buy a console, fine, dont, but you're missing out on a lot of good games to begin with, this is just another game on that list." My point being that there are huge quantities of great games available for the consoles that are only available for the consoles. If you choose not to buy a console, this isnt the only game you'll be missing out on. LA knows that. If they release this game only for the 360 and PS3, they know they will be alienating the PC market. They wouldn't do that unless the rewards for keeping it on the consoles outweighed the costs. Perhaps Sony and Microsoft are giving them incentives for keeping it on their consoles, like that they'll give LA a larger percent of the profits or something, I dont know. Your suggestion that game companies should make all games for the PC doesn't make any sense, you arent taking into account the size of the console market. I'm not saying the PC should be ignored, its my favorite platform to play games on, but there are economic reasons why it makes sense for them to make the game only for the consoles. You dont have to like it but you do have to live with it. You'll just have to wait for the next PC game to come out.

I agree completely. It costs relatively little for a company to port a game to another platform, and by failing to do so, LA loses a large market. More importantly, by failing to announce any games for the PC, they lose costomer loyalty; which will be very hard to reclaim. By not releasing anything for PC they change themselves as a company and must find someone else to play with. In addition, in the future, as console price climbs, owning multiples will eventually be impossible, making the PC the best way to play.