It's because not a lot of people like what the Devs put in. So the Modify the game to their liking.

Platform wars. Platform wars everywhere.



While it would be good for consoless have mods, I'm afraid is not easy. Mods can screw your game up very easily, and consoles would explode with some mods. If console users had access to every mod as PC users have, it would be an incredible mess.



Ehurrrr.... are you kidding? You don't know what mods are capable of, are you? The original game is awesome, but mods can improve it greatly.

One word...Money! Microsoft got a lot of 'em

It's platform wars, really. I see more PC users putting down console users than the ordinary PS3 V 360 debates on these boards. lol.

I have managed to buy a new gaming PC every 4-5 years since I was 15. It's all in what's important to you, I'd rather avoid fast food for a few months and have a computer for $800-$1000.
I rarely use mods either, I play PC games for the high resolution graphics. It's a whole other world when you don't have to be limited by the muddy colors and pixelated model edges of televisions. I love consoles for some of their games, and I own a wii, a 360, and a PS3, as well as a 1080p Samsung widescreen television. But I personally value high resolution graphics over anything else, and have since I first saw Heretic 2 played on a PC with a graphics accelerator in 1998.

It is nice to see consoles finally coming close to PC games, and I'm a lover of all gaming media. Hopefully televisions approach the resolution and color quality of computer monitors soon.

Because M$ would rather we buy their consoles than game on Windows rigs. They don't manufacture or sell gaming hardware for PCs and, while a PC can more than substitute for a console, a console cannot substitute for a PC. M$ potentially makes more money per customer selling both a console and its OS/software. It's kinda short sighted, as I see it, since high end PCs will invariably outperform consoles. They could be raking in the dough, even more so, if they broke into the PC hardware market. If I were M$, I'd be pushing high end gaming hardware and the consoles, then the financial incentive to herd folks toward the console would diminish.

Oh, yeah, that is what I meant.

Didn't see your quoted me there.

Of course it wouldn't be easy, but it would be nice. And the Next gen console is going to be WAY more powerful than our xboxs/PS3s we have today.

Yeah, I know. But the progress of PCs is linear and in consoles, there are leaps each few years. Sooner or later, mods would surpass what a console is capable of. The only way I can think of introducing mods to consoles is what other companies do: let just some mods make it into consoles, being previously tested in order to see if there are incombatibilities and bugs and all of that. But that's extra work.

It would be veeery nice, though.

You sure? Cos the Wii-U (for example) isn't exactly what I'd define as "WAY more powerful"....

I wouldn't say anything until I see the specs.

You don't have to care about it, it was already that for some other games.

If they make a huge dlc you can be sure it will be available for all of us at the same time.

I am fine with this because I'm playing this on the PC. Now if I was just playing it on PS3 or something I wouldn't be fine with it, at all. lol.

Because it's handheld? Not a lot of memory storage? And MAYBE because it's Nintendo?

that minus the PS3 part just 360 ported

@papa

you talking about Skyrim DLC?? No sorry the DLC "big" or small will release on 360 first as it did in the past nothing new about it though and I never bought an Oblivion DLC/X-pac to begin with Mods (if your actually smart enough to use em) work wonders and last longer then what Beth could do only 100 people and they need to move on to their next game.

@Meko

Wii U is a seperate console altogether, the option to play it as a handheld is there but lowers the graphics compared to the TV. Don't expect the next gen consoles to be excellent with hardware equivilant to high range PC. RAM is the biggest improvement they can make but even that may or may not last long because the more resources that are available can and will be used

Theres a glaring innaccuracy in your response.

Games are generally not developed for the PC and then ported to the XBox 360.

Rather, they're developed using PC's for the Xbox. This renders your argument somewhat misleading as you're suggesting PC games sell better on the consoles. The correct generalised statement would be Console games made on PC's sell better on consoles.

There should be a ...consolation prize for both consoles. PC users will be sated with the CK and mods while XBox users will have early DLC, but what about PS3. Perhaps the PS3's resolution will aptly be slightly higher or, since it's only the first few DLCs that come out on XBox first, maybe a few will come out on PSN first later on?

I wouldn't say destory, out of 360 PC and PS3, PS3 is the lowest of the three but that's mainly due to the fact sony took a chance and the high priced scared away many consumers many games this year even have traded places for top with 360 and PC tho

Well PS3 users get a pre-built UI created for their play style. That's what I call leaps and bounds over the PC version

The FIRST thing (and most important) in which Pc is superior to the Consoles is PIRACY, that's for sure.

Game industry knows it better than you and me, paying attention to one platform over another is not about "sympathy".

The only thing that deserve a kicking is the insane rate of piracy my dear pc gamer.

Piracy has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Indeed, and there's also a ton of piracy on the Xbox 360 anyway.

Microsoft are simply good at what they do ,regardless of what people think of them.

Pc user's are a minority,console's have brushed you aside,and it's only going to get worse for you. Even more so when the next gen arrives. People want to be entertained ,not have their brains frazzled by tech and expensive equipment just to play games. Consoles do more than gaming and will get better at that as they go along. And regarding mods,mods will happen on consoles at some point,i assure you. Maybe the next gen,but it will happen. This gen of consoles is approching their 7th year,and are being pushed to the max now. But there are still improvements. This allows developers to get smarter and find new techniques to squeeze even more out of them,Yes there is a limit,but it does have it's benefits. You can go and buy upgrades for your computer etc,but has what you had before been pushed to it's limits?..No, because it's not been used long enough to find out.Something else has come along for you to spend money on instead. It's a con. There doesn't need to be new stuff every 5 minutes. I'm glad i'm not a PC gamer anymore,but that's me.

Your going to have to deal with consoles,because they are here to stay.....plain and simple.

You can't compare "console gamers (XBox and PS3)" with "PC" gamers, that's unfair. And as I gave said before, there is no way consoles can have access to mods in the same way that PCs, simple. "People want to be entertained ,not have their brains frazzled by tech and expensive equipment just to play games"? Consoles aren't cheap either, you know? And PCs are not only for playing games. I am entertained playing games in my computer, as I am playing games in my PS3, but for certain games, I feel more like playing them in PC because of some advantages I consider important (in this very case, basically mods).

By the way, it seems you think a person always has to have the best stuff for the computer. It's not like that.

i'd advise you to stop trying to start a flame war. it doesnt end well.

on topic- i dont care if x-box gets the DLC first because PCs get mods and a better looking game, why not give the console users a little so they dont feel left out

as for "micro$oft" if you were a business wouldnt you do anything you could to make money? i mean isnt that the point of being a business? they are good at what they do, as some people would say, don't hate the player, hate the game.

I do agree that this arrangement leaves the PS3 users in the dirt, and i must be quite offensive. Advantages previously stated (mods for PC, early DLC for Xbox 360) will keep us PC players and Xbox players with something of an advantage, but the PS3 guys seem... purposefully left out.

Anyways, there will be much Skyrim to explore anyways, so DLC will seem like a drop of water added to a full glass.

As a side note: keep in mind That almost all PC players use Microsoft Windows. Given Mac's recent rise (albeit comparatively small) in sales, I'd start supporting Windows as a gaming platform as much as their Xbox product lest they start losing the obvious looming war. waiting till the last minute to start is a bad idea.

Wait a sec...you're saying that everyone doesn't have a multi-thousand dollar beast of a machine to play games on? I totally agree with your statement, by the way. I think income is a major factor in the choice for which gaming platform(s) a person uses.

For instance, I have a gaming PC because Ive been accustomed to playing games on one since long before the newest gen consoles came out. Once they came out, I got an Xbox and PS (skipped the Wii). Haha, actually, initially I was going to get a Wii because there were a few games on it that I wanted to play, but with Nintendo's inept launch, I couldn't find one anywhere, so I got frustrated and got an Xbox360 instead. With the Xbox360 and PS3, I no longer feel the need to get a Wii. Oh well, Nintendo's loss. But anyway, if I was a bit more limited in my finances, I would've gotten a console instead of an expensive computer.

Even ignoring the income issue, many people will buy a cheapy computer for just web-browsing or email or downloading porm or something. And then buy a console on top of that for their gaming needs. It's easier for a parent to just buy their children a console for entertainment as well...more cost effective.

And I still think the whole platform wars thing I see on these forums is stupid, and both sides are guilty of contributing to it and drawing it out ad infinitum. I really don't understand the immature need for a person to feel better about themselves by putting someone else down.