First Patch for Arkham Knight released

[Suika]

Make the game for the PC first and then port to consoles sound a lot more reasonable. But who am I kidding? This word is not in any company's dictionary...

A company would rather do what's more financially wise, and spending the majority of the budget on PC is... Not that.

PC gaming is the minority in the majority of situations. The only people I know that play these games are console gamers.

[FakezZ]

A company would rather do what's more financially wise, and spending the majority of the budget on PC is... Not that.

PC gaming is the minority in the majority of situations. The only people I know that play these games are console gamers.

Oh yeah ofc PC gamers are the minority... Cause Valve has not made a butt ton of money from CS:GO or DOTA or L4D or Riot hasn't made money from LoL, or DICE hasn't cashed in a shitload of money from BF games on PC. There are a lot more people on PC. It is just a matter of the developer willing to make a well optimized game. Also optimized does not only mean that it makes use of hardware at its fullest, since that rarely ever happens, it also means it can run well on low-end PCs (low settings are actually low) and also provide high-end PCs the demanding graphics options.

[Suika]

Oh yeah ofc PC gamers are the minority... Cause Valve has not made a butt ton of money from CS:GO or DOTA or L4D or Riot hasn't made money from LoL, or DICE hasn't cashed in a shitload of money from BF games on PC.

This isn't a new Counter Strike, DOTA 3, L4D3, or F2P MMORPG. Batman games score shitloads of sales on consoles and fairly few on PC, the PS4 so far accounts for two thirds of the sales of Arkham Knight.

[FakezZ]

This isn't a new Counter Strike, DOTA 3, L4D3, or F2P MMORPG. Batman games score shitloads of sales on consoles and fairly few on PC, the PS4 so far accounts for two thirds of the sales of Arkham Knight.

Yeah but the reason is that they do not do the PC version right. If they did, then it would sell well.

[Suika]

Yeah but the reason is that they do not do the PC version right. If they did, then it would sell well.

If they can port it so well that it runs just as well on Intel HD 4000 graphics as it does on an Xbox One, then yes, it will be fairly successful, probably as successful as CS:GO and games of the like.

Otherwise nope.

[Derangel]

Yeah but the reason is that they do not do the PC version right. If they did, then it would sell well.

 

There is a world of difference between selling well and selling enough to actually matter more. The PC game market is big enough to pay attention to but most of the money for these kinds of games are made on consoles. That isn't going to change. Witcher 3 sold 4 million copies in two weeks. 1.3 million were PC. Well over double sold on consoles, for a franchise that is considered one of the big PC games. 1.3 million in two weeks is amazing on the PC, but on consoles it's fairly average for big AAA releases.

[evilarceus]

I guess you could say Batman: Arkham Knight was ROCKSTEADY HAHAHA stfu

[thirtyfpsonpcisgood]

I wish people would stop believing it takes years to make good PC ports.

 

Anyway, here is a video of Jim Sterling dissecting the Arkham Knight launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_euReGOTGk

I already had this ready to go in my browser.  I am interested to hear what he has to say. 

[thirtyfpsonpcisgood]

Once they sort out SLI I will be happy .

Good for you but many people do not run SLI systems.  This game was a horrible pc port at release and for them to have stopped selling it at a certain point says enough.  Yes I hope they fix SLI for this game for the people that have SLI but this also should run better on single card pcs too.

[Humbug]

the PS4 so far accounts for two thirds of the sales of Arkham Knight.

Hmmm I wonder why.

[FakezZ]

If they can port it so well that it runs just as well on Intel HD 4000 graphics as it does on an Xbox One, then yes, it will be fairly successful, probably as successful as CS:GO and games of the like.

Otherwise nope.

Never said that. But they can make low settings low enough to be playable on HD 4000 and ultra to be requiring like a 980 to run at decent framerate.

[FakezZ]

There is a world of difference between selling well and selling enough to actually matter more. The PC game market is big enough to pay attention to but most of the money for these kinds of games are made on consoles. That isn't going to change. Witcher 3 sold 4 million copies in two weeks. 1.3 million were PC. Well over double sold on consoles, for a franchise that is considered one of the big PC games. 1.3 million in two weeks is amazing on the PC, but on consoles it's fairly average for big AAA releases.

4 / 3 (# of platforms the game was released on) = ~ 1.33. So PC has 1/3 of the game's sales. Think about what you said again.

[Briggsy]

One thing is for sure: youtubers that do glitch videos are having a field day with Arkham Knight.

[VagabondWraith]

Tl;dr, is this game playable yet? I was waiting for it to be stable. Is it enough to play yet?