March 12th, 2008

Splash Damage Supports PC Gaming

A lot of voices heard in the last few years started to say that PC gaming is slowly getting near its end, and that consoles are the way of the future. Maybe in the Western world this may become true pretty soon, but in the emerging countries, where most buyers are on a tight budget, the PC will remain the favorite gaming device for a pretty long time. Fortunately, there are still gaming companies that support PC gaming...

Enemy Territory Quake Wars

...and one of them is Splash Damage, the development team behind Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, who consider game development for the PC much easier than on consoles. For example, Paul Wedgwood, lead designer on Quake Wars and Splash Damage owner, said "We've always lead on PC because you can prototype a game really quickly compared to the consoles. If you want to balance really well you do it on PC first, and then it's set up for console. If you do it the other direction it can go really badly."At last, it should be noted that Wedgwood considers PCs better for some game genres than consoles - "Personally I think that RTS, MMO and shooters, mostly, are better on PC. That's something that's very clear to us. How people come to adopt [PC gaming] is the tricky part. They probably get a PC so they can use Facebook or YouTube and then end up doing some PC gaming. The online part of PC gaming is absolutely in growth, not decline. The challenge for PC developers is to figure out why the things that work, work. There's no reason why developers should abandon these PC models and think the PC doesn't have a future, these kinds of games work."

Great, so buying a console can go way down my planned purchases list... what do you think about it?