Will Amnesia be available for consoles? No!

[the dark side]

Calm Youself, there is no Need to worry about Amenesia Ending up as a clone of "COD-Zombiez" (shivers in disgust), as actually it wouldn't.

"consoliseation" only happens when you have a big publisher. you see, big publishers are obsessed with "Mainstream" and Mainstream, yes, is casual gamers, wich are on ALL systems, how else can you explain the fact that several PC EXCLUSIVE games from big name publishers have had very consoleised "call of duty" style "gameplay" (cough, Crysis 1, cough). the casuals demand that everything has to be like burnout or gears of war or call of duty, and as the marketing divisions focuss group Only on the 6 million or so casual gamers out there, they think ALL gamers want that, they forget about the 5 or 6 million Hardcore gamers still out there, on ALL systems.

im one, ill buy any game that has the gameplay style i like in its respective genre, and if that means i have to buy a console, ill do just that, why the devil should i miss out on Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo because a few blinded elitists dont realise you CAN actually have a hardcore game on a console even today?, it didnt suddenly die out with the n64 you know..

i know many dev teams who would Love to make a game like "No One Lives Forever" or "Serious Sam" or "Painkiller", but the publishers think it "wouldnt sell" because it would be "too hard and too old fashioned" because its done its market research primarily on middle class Americans, mainly in the California area, mostly aged between 12 and 15 years of age, and usually of rather poor academic performance outside of sports, wich is the primary audience for games like COD. so they refuse to finance it, and then they fire half the dev team in punishment for having "non conformist ideas that damage the corporate image". (cough, activision, cough).

independant companies, like Frictional Games, dont have a big publisher, they dont have focus groups or marketing teams, and they are financed not by ultra conservative corporate accountants who are scared of being lauged out of the golf club if they sell even ONE less copy of there game than activision sold of modern warfare expansion pack 2 (aka MW3), they are financed by GAMERS.



This means they can realease whatever the fuji they want. by financing the game using the sales of the PC version of amnesia, and recouping the cost via XBLA and PSN sales of the port, they can port the PC version of the game to the consoles EXACTLY as it is, with very little changes, the only one they would have to do are add acheivements, wich may actually be an improvement, and reprogramme the graphics engine a bit for the elderly versions of direct X used by the console systems, but, that doesnt really bother me as well, my opinion on graphics, owing to the fact i still get my 8 bit systems out from time to time is "can i see what i am doing? yes? they are good enough!".

porting to console would be a good thing for frictional actually. as it would introduce frictional to another market of gamers, and would bring them in MORE MONEY. so they can STAY independant, because they wont end up suffering the same fate as poor old "People Can Fly" (R.I.P P.C.F (sobs) ) were they end up running out of money, getting snaffled up by one of the big American congromolates like EA (what happened to PCF) or Activision or THQ, and being forced to make nothing but COD Clones until the games industry collapses under its own ineptitude.