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although there's still a lot of arguing between gamers who prefer the power of a

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pc and those who prefer the convenience of a console

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one thing most of us can agree on is that any particular title should just

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plain work as advertised regardless of

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the platform be it pc xbox playstation

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or atari 2600 but unfortunately there's been a

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noticeable trend over the years in which games initially developed for console

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just don't translate that well to the pc

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and when these games drop on steam they might have wonky controls underwhelming

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visuals or even outright game breaking

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bugs so why does this happen

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well a huge part of the issue is that at

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any given time there are only really about three or four major living room

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consoles and aside from minor updates

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every two years or so every single xbox one or playstation 4

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in existence is using the exact same

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hardware inside this means that developers writing games

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for these platforms know exactly what

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configurations and apis they're coding for making it easy to optimize

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performance and functionality for that specific device

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especially as consoles tend to have exclusive developer features to make

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programming for them even more straightforward

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pcs on the other hand present an additional challenge in that games must

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be written to work on an enormous

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variety of different computers and

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although the dominant setup is a modern

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64-bit version of Windows and a CPU and

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GPU from one of just two different manufacturers each

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there's still tons of variation in terms of

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performance driver revisions and what other kinds of

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hardware and software are installed and remember that on a pc

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games are sharing resources like memory and CPU time with other programs to a

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far greater extent than on a console that was built to consistently

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prioritize gameplay and because of all these factors every

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time a game is installed on another pc

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chances are high that it's a brand new

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environment the game has never actually

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seen before so the game's code has to be

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adjusted to work with general technologies such as directx and

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the x86 instruction set which can be an

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imperfect solution that as we know doesn't work flawlessly on every pc

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every time and even to get it as close as possible

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can be very time consuming and sometimes

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tens of thousands of files have to be rewritten to play nicely with an NVIDIA

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or AMD desktop graphics driver instead

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of some specialized API that was specifically designed for the

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playstation 4 meaning that pc ports also

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add months to development time which by

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the way costs money money that many game studios would rather spend on making new

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games marketing existing ones new dlc or

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heck why not ice cream at that point

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and since consoles are generally underpowered compared to current gen

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gaming computers games originally developed for consoles

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are often designed to be less graphically demanding so

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creating more high def visuals for

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you know whiny vocal minority customers with top of the line graphics cards like

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gtx 1080s and rx 580s can also result in

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months of additional work and this combined with the translation of visual

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elements so pc apis and drivers can understand them has resulted in more

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than a handful of games looking like a mess

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on a computer and of course a game being written for a

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certain console means it was also written with a specific controller

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scheme in mind meaning that the experience may not map well to a

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keyboard and mouse and although the concept of simply mapping a controller

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button to a keyboard key seems very simple this process can still involve

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modifying a great deal of code under the hood the good news is that while there

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are still plenty of bad pc ports floating around consoles have been

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moving towards more pc-like architectures and tools like microsoft's

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new universal Windows platform might make porting games at least from xbox to

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pc much less labor-intensive as games

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written for uwp like gears of war 4

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don't have to be rewritten for desktop computers

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but with that said at least for now underwhelming ports are just part of the

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