Why Does Roberts Choose PC to Be Platform of Star Citizen

Traditional publishers do not recognize the PC and space simulation games. Venture capitalists are only willing to provide start-up capital for mobile phone games or social games. Learned from the news on igxe.com, the officials of Star Citizen made a statement that they think their opinions are wrong and there are a large number of PC players hope to get exquisite games on their platform. Among these players, considerable amounts of players especially love space games. If a new high quality space game comes out, they would be very willing to play.

Of course, some players may have questions about why Roberts want to make PC platform game. In an interview of Roberts, he said that he’s also a player and an owner of high-end PC & game console. What he’s doing now is what he missed in the past, as he spent most of his time on playing console games. Sometimes, a game has an excellent effect on PC platform, then the game is transplanted to the game consoles, then the official begins to release the console game, and at last, the game become worse and worse.

PC platform has the support of Steam. “There are 40 million Steam users here. This is an open platform and game consoles do not posses this degree of freedom.” Roberts said. For the large PC market, he thinks that the market is also wide and don't have to take the risk of stock. He said, “If you are making online games or PC games, you don't have to earn money by selling off 4 million to 5 million games and don’t have to take the risk of stock. People like me would bring sales volume about 1 million to 2 million. This is a chance for you with focusing on hungry users and PC platform. I’m a player just like you, and I want to make a game for you.”

For the situation of PC game weak recently, he seems not pessimistic at all. “This is the place where I became famous, and it’s the starting station of many large console games. I’m a PC player and I’m very proud of it.” Roberts said at last. The officials of Star Citizen Credits also made such advertisement words: Ask not what your genre can do for you, but what you can do for your favorite genre. Let's put high-end PC gaming and Space Sims back on the map! These words encouraged a lot of PC players to raise money for Star Citizen.
Source: http://www.igxe.com/news/company-news-49437.html