[QUOTE=zerosix;40737947]It's a tiny market, but it's still a market. I play the FIFA games on PC. The tweet is worded quite oddly though, it could still be coming to PC but they might only have licencing to use "ignite engine" on consoles or something? I don't know. I love how they're bigging up this new engine though when I'm 90% certain it's just the old engine with some graphic improvements - they do this every year, making the game look vastly superior to the previous when usually the only difference is the teams and maybe a new minor mechanic.[/QUOTE]
If the market is so tiny that the projected profits aren't big enough to justify spending money on porting and optimizing the engine, then they won't do it. That's how business works.
I wouldn't be surprised, seeing as not many people play FIFA/PES on PC, and how badly stained their reputation is with PC gamers, or at least the vocal minority.
why the hell not, Sony already confirmed that any game that runs on the PlayStation 4 will run on PC because they're using like amd chips, its like how rock star knows they have a huge PC segment of their playerbase yet they only address the PC gamers after the console versions start making it into used game stores
[editline]22nd May 2013[/editline]
ea knows damn well that they should switch to a f2p model for their sports games where people buy new lineups each year and extra packages instead of having to buy a new copy every year just to get the new teams, but that would require doing something experimental with their sacred cashcow
[editline]22nd May 2013[/editline]
fuck Xbox 1 runs windows 8 there's no reason to not release for PC anymore, they even have their own digital store
[QUOTE=GetBent;40737300]They said on their twitter that, loose quote, "There are many different PC configurations out there" is the reason why it's not coming to PC.
Basically, they don't want to have to optimize it.[/QUOTE]
They said that? Wow, I was only trying to be funny there.
[QUOTE=GetBent;40737300]They said on their twitter that, loose quote, "There are many different PC configurations out there" is the reason why it's not coming to PC.
Basically, they don't want to have to optimize it.[/QUOTE]
Well, to be fair, it's easier to optimize for the consoles because they have identical hardware. On the pc, not so much.
Still fucking BS that they're not putting the engine on PC.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40742161]Well, to be fair, it's easier to optimize for the consoles because they have identical hardware. On the pc, not so much.
Still fucking BS that they're not putting the engine on PC.[/QUOTE]
Not only that, but this was right after the Wii U EA announcement, that they are making games for the Wii U again.
It's probably like this to make people wanna buy the new consoles. That's my guess.
Didn't they say that the xbox is moving to x86 architecture?
Surely that makes it [i]easier[/i] to port over to pc?
[QUOTE=Arsonist;40742314]Didn't they say that the xbox is moving to x86 architecture?
Surely that makes it [i]easier[/i] to port over to pc?[/QUOTE]
the EA SPORTS IGNITE engine will ignite our computers though
Its a engine for sports game so its not that bad, and most kids i know who play sport games always play on their console so i guess its not that big of a deal.
In a perfect world EA, Microsoft and Activision would all merge and immediately close and gaming would be much better off.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40739916]If the market is so tiny that the projected profits aren't big enough to justify spending money on porting and optimizing the engine, then they won't do it. That's how business works.
I wouldn't be surprised, seeing as not many people play FIFA/PES on PC, and how badly stained their reputation is with PC gamers, or at least the vocal minority.[/QUOTE]
YEah but the Xbox1 and PS4 are both x86...
[QUOTE=Looter;40746442]In a perfect world EA, Microsoft and Activision would all merge and immediately close and gaming would be much better off.[/QUOTE]
and create a massive fucking monopoly, but then it wouldnt be a perfect game.
I'm not European so this news doesn't upset me v:v:v
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