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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3520319" data-attributes="member: 2067">PC games do not sell as well as console games. Mostly because if I'm going to get a system exclusively dedicated to playing video games, it usually can do a better job than my PC without risking compatibility issues, driver issues, blue-screen-of-death issues, cluttering up the hard drive and making the rest of my system run slower, etc. PC games have the edge in the MMO market for now, and (IIRC), they still maintain a strong showing with strategy games, but when looking at the &quot;blockbuster&quot; games that support the industry...your Zeldas your Halos...the console more strongly supports the game than the computer.Also, portable games are immensely profitable for a small investment. They usually require less technology and development time than a big console release and can still sell just as many units with a good game. D&amp;D Tactics strikes me as a fairly simple engine that mostly focuses on getting the D&amp;D rules right &quot;behind the screen.&quot; I wouldn't be surprised if the game is 90% dungeon crawl. If it were a PC game, it would probably require more polish (will you accept pixelated mud from your monitor?), sell less (because more people will buy a PSP game than a PC game), and generally only hit that small segment of the market that is interested in the game and owns a PC, but not a PSP.The DS may have made better business sense, but I bet the PSP offered some incentives, or perhaps somewhere along the line Sony has their claws in the development company, and the argument that the system may be coming into its own soon may be supported.Basically, the reason that it's made for the console, like most games these days, is because the PC platform usually isn't as successful as any given console game (for whatever reason). If it was an MMO or an RTS, it might see PC release, but as a Tactics RPG...portables have great success with the genre (FFTA, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, the new FFT:Lion War...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3520319, member: 2067"] PC games do not sell as well as console games. Mostly because if I'm going to get a system exclusively dedicated to playing video games, it usually can do a better job than my PC without risking compatibility issues, driver issues, blue-screen-of-death issues, cluttering up the hard drive and making the rest of my system run slower, etc. PC games have the edge in the MMO market for now, and (IIRC), they still maintain a strong showing with strategy games, but when looking at the "blockbuster" games that support the industry...your Zeldas your Halos...the console more strongly supports the game than the computer. Also, portable games are immensely profitable for a small investment. They usually require less technology and development time than a big console release and can still sell just as many units with a good game. D&D Tactics strikes me as a fairly simple engine that mostly focuses on getting the D&D rules right "behind the screen." I wouldn't be surprised if the game is 90% dungeon crawl. If it were a PC game, it would probably require more polish (will you accept pixelated mud from your monitor?), sell less (because more people will buy a PSP game than a PC game), and generally only hit that small segment of the market that is interested in the game and owns a PC, but not a PSP. The DS may have made better business sense, but I bet the PSP offered some incentives, or perhaps somewhere along the line Sony has their claws in the development company, and the argument that the system may be coming into its own soon may be supported. Basically, the reason that it's made for the console, like most games these days, is because the PC platform usually isn't as successful as any given console game (for whatever reason). If it was an MMO or an RTS, it might see PC release, but as a Tactics RPG...portables have great success with the genre (FFTA, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, the new FFT:Lion War...). [/QUOTE]

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