Why no Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on the PC?

[Chosonman]

VideoGamer.com: Force Unleashed is coming to every platform going, except...

CS (Lucas Studios): No Commodore 64, no Apple IIE...

VideoGamer.com: No PC...

CS: No PC as well, yes.

VideoGamer.com: We're a multiplatform website and some of our PC-owning readers have complained about this.

CS: And that's something that every time I read that, we do hear that complaint, it hurts. Our goal was we wanted to get this game to as many people as possible. I definitely wish it had been possible. However the PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game. On the other hand if we made that game for as many people as possible, because we are trying to make mass market games, something that everybody can enjoy, well then it's not taking advantage of what those $4,000 systems can do. So one way or the other depending on how you build that lead PC SKU, it's not going to be for the same amount of people, it's going to be not as good or only for a select few people.

That said we're definitely not out of the PC market. It's just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles.

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox...ashed/preview-921.html

$4000 FOR A SYSTEM THAT CAN PLAY THE GAME? WTH? My PC will spank the PS3 and it was only $450 to build. What a load of horse ...!

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[Chosonman]

VideoGamer.com: So the decision was purely about the PC being a varied platform?

CS: Exactly. And no matter where you pick that bar somebody's out of luck.

VideoGamer.com: It had nothing to do with piracy?

CS: I don't have my fingers in the pot of what goes into the legal part of pirating. I'm not really familiar with the figures. I understand it's a lot more prevalent in some areas than others.

VideoGamer.com: Do you guys have any message to your PC-owning fans, because you guys have a heritage on PC?

CS: Absolutely. We started on the PC. Unfortunately that goes back to the point of such a variance of the platform. There wasn't such a variance at that time and it made a lot more sense to develop on PC. The message is that we're not shutting the door on PC at all. Just for this project it happens to be that we don't have a PC SKU. I really hope that everyone can experience this game on a platform eventually.

VideoGamer.com: Might there be a PC version in the future?

CS: No. And if there was no-one has told me about it yet! I've got my head in the sand as far as this project goes. We only don't have a PC version for this product.

 

[Chosonman]

We need to petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/g5d4iu5f/

 

[EarthwormJim]

That's just stupid. You can buy a cheap $400 computer and get $100 video card and have something more powerful than any console.

Crysis hasn't sold that badly, it's not breaking any records or anything and look how demanding it is.

 

[lupi]

Has the 360 hardware been improved since it was released years ago. That's why that argument is horseshit.

 

[cheapherk]

They create the darn games on pc's- why would it be so difficult to create a pc version of the game.

From IGN:

"The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game," said Suey.

Like it's going to look "unbelievable" on a PSP??? Hell, they are even making a PS2 version.

 

[wart thumbed]

Is it just me or does that make absolutely no sense..? Most gamers that would pick this game up would have the hardware to at LEAST run it on the minimum possible settings wouldn't they?

 

[funboy6942]

Pirates

 

[Piuc2020]

What a stupid answer

 

[mindcycle]

Plain and simple.. because console games sell better.