Modern Warfare 2 is GameStop's most pre-ordered game ever

mikemaj82,

Then that means two things. 1) You clearly aren't qualified to talk about the nuances or pricing of PC hardware and, perhaps more importantly, 2) if you're willing to pay not only a higher price per game than the equivalent PC port but are willing to spend up to $20+ on "DLC" that should've been free to begin with, you're just as much of a sucker as someone who constantly upgrades his hardware. Also, just so it's made as clear as possible, there is absolutely NOTHING that prevents a PC gamer from hooking his rig up to an HDTV and, likewise, enjoying it from their couch in the same way you do; we've got all of the necessary outputs and adapters to make this a relatively easy thing to do. People wonder why PC gamers look down on rabid console fanboys. It's not because we're elitists, it's because people like you KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about our platform and take every given moment to vocalize such a startling level of ignorance.

booooooooooo downvoting me. You guys really need to know when a game's turned casual.

"all I know is if preorders for future PC games are as bad as they are for MW2" They won't be. Pre-orders for the PC port of MW2 are terrible because Infinity Ward took everything that made the multiplayer portion of every previous COD game worthwhile and gutted it as the game was going gold despite past assurances everything we enjoyed would remain intact. Most developers lack the arrogance Infinity Ward has and, consequently, I doubt their sales will be anywhere near as poor.

"...then we won't have to worry about these types of arguments anymore, will we?" Keep something carefully in mind, mikemaj82. If the PC dies as a gaming platform, the technological innovations (both in hardware and software) you enjoy moving between generations will come to a grinding halt. Why? The PC enthusiast hardware market is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. However, it would be an enterprise that would die off at an extremely quick pace if there was no software to take advantage of those products. If we go down, we'll be taking the vast majority of companies like NVIDIA and ATI down with us because they're making a pittance in their other markets because of incredibly stiff competition from the likes of Intel and IBM. Microsoft, with it's incredibly deep pockets, does not have the engineers or even the money to come up with the kind of technology those companies currently have let alone what they're expected to have in the coming 6 months; Sony and Nintendo are in the same boat. If they did, ATI wouldn't have designed Xenos or corrected the chip's design defects when Microsoft opted to come up with the physical implementation on their own rather than contracting an AISC to do it (which began the RROD plague), ATI wouldn't have recycled an exist Artyx design for Nintendo, and the GPU powering the Playstation 3 wouldn't have been derived from a (then) top of the line videocard.

All of the visual effects that make this generation a stand out from the previous one were pioneered on our platform first and most of the underlying technologies that will be powering the next generation are either available right now or will be shortly. We're the first platform to have hardware accelerated physics, we'll be the first platform to use compute shader technology (for everything from AI to rendering), and we have the only platform that can play a modern game at a native resolution higher than 1080p while maintaining a consistent framerate. Without us, you would have been extremely lucky to have a Sony or Microsoft product with higher performing hardware than the Wii.