Minecraft For Consoles Outsells Minecraft For PC

[Vigormortis]

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Glad to see at least one person understood my post and was willing to defend it. (and, by corollary, me)

What really bothers me is that the other poster repeatedly generalizes and insults PC gamers on this forum; often resorting to accusing us all of being "marks"[footnote]Which, in the context he uses, means: an object of attack, ridicule, or abuse; a victim or prospective victim of a swindle.. Which is a thinly-veiled jab at PC gamers; implying they're either knowingly misleading others or are so gullible that they'll believe anything PC game makers say.[/footnote]

Perhaps it's the nature of the thread but, honestly, I just don't get it. I can see how my comment, with a lack of context, would seem insulting, but in context I can't. Maybe I'm biased since it was my post, but even so...

I hold no ill-will towards anyone here - not even Rozalia, despite his implications towards the quality of my character. I will freely admit, however, that I could have worded my last post in a not-so-blunt fashion.

Oh well.

 

[T_ConX]

Minecraft will also be making its way to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita platforms later this summer, presumably in an attempt to rub the PC's nose in it.

Dear Filthy Console Plebs,

You cannot rub our noses in anything Minecraft related, so don't even try.

We have mods. We have texture packs. We have world editing utilities. We have entire databases of free skins, and can freely make our own.

You have to pay for skin packs.

We're not saying you can't have fun with Minecraft. We're just trying to remind you of the fact that you're playing a vastly inferior version of Minecraft.

Signed,

The PC Master Race

 

[The Lunatic]

... People still play Minecraft without mods?

.. How?

 

[The Lunatic]

... People still play Minecraft without mods?

.. How?

I believe you'll find quite a few posts here alone telling you why.

Why would anyone do that?

That's like somebody saying "Hey! Here's a version of the game with like, 10% of the content, runs worse, less view distance and basically inferior in ever way, or there's this version with pretty much unlimited stuff to do".

And then going "Oh boy, I love inferior versions, I'll defend it to the death despite it obviously being less of a thing in every discernible way!".

Like, logic, you know?

 

[Rozalia1]

Why would anyone do that?

That's like somebody saying "Hey! Here's a version of the game with like, 10% of the content, runs worse, less view distance and basically inferior in ever way, or there's this version with pretty much unlimited stuff to do".

And then going "Oh boy, I love inferior versions, I'll defend it to the death despite it obviously being less of a thing in every discernible way!".

Like, logic, you know?

You really can't wrap your head around successful console versions of games? As I said previously, plenty of posts here alone telling you why the console versions were bought.
Not everyone cares that there is a shinier version, the success of consoles alone should illuminate you on that.

 

[The Lunatic]

You really can't wrap your head around successful console versions of games? As I said previously, plenty of posts here alone telling you why the console versions were bought.
Not everyone cares that there is a shinier version, the success of consoles alone should illuminate you on that.

But, it's just worse. Are these people just uninformed about how much better the PC version is?

 

[AliasBot]

The first conclusion to be drawn from this is that Minecraft as a whole sells really, really well.

Beyond that, might as well offer my own commentary, having owned the 360 version for a while before getting the PC version (never had a computer that I thought could run it, then never had money I could easily use to buy things online). The main advantage of the console version is simply that it's much easier to play with just the people you want to play with, when you want to play with them. After getting back from college, where a group of friends and I was able to play together on a local connection, we've had to jump through tons of hoops trying to get an online server working so that we could all still play together. It's finally starting to come together now, a full two months later. With the 360, so long as you had Live already (which most console players do, I'd wager, especially on the Xbox side), it's piss-easy to just jump into someone's personal world to play with them. So basically, console Minecraft works for the same reason that console games in general are still pretty popular - they're just less hassle for the technologically-challenged.

(That said, that is literally the only thing console Minecraft has in its favor over PC Minecraft. Since I bought the latter, I've only gone back to the former once, and found myself severely underwhelmed.)