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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4387823" data-attributes="member: 8863">Yeah, there's been lots of the web equivalent of screaming going on at the more videogame oriented sites from what I can tell.  Sony fanboys screaming about how SE lied and stabbed Sony users in the back and so on because they went multi-platform.  Even though it'll still be on the PS3, they're acting like it's a repeat of FFVII hopping over to a Sony console exclusive from Nintendo (of course in their minds THAT was ok...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />).More profitable isn't surprising given that a console only costs about 10% or even less of what a good gaming PC costs.  Now that consoles like the Xbox, Xbox 360 and PS3 have enough power to actually rival a gaming PC, it's not surprising that's going to have a larger audience.That and the consoles are a more stable platform than PCs.  Developers don't have to worry about things like compatibility problems with sound cards, video cards, available memory because consoles are more uniform.  Probably makes things easier to develop and test.</blockquote>