Guys …. guess what! I bet you didn’t know Skyrim was coming out tonight at midnight. I’m serious! No ones really talking about it though, so you might have missed it. Anyways, apparently Pete Hines, Bethesda VP of Marketing, doesn’t like programming for PC. In a recent interview with Joystiq Hines had a lot to say including some comments about creating games for the PC.
â€Good games are good games, so the core experience is the same on all platforms, “ Hines said, “and we try to do some things with the UI for PC folks to have the best experience possible. From a technical standpoint, yes, the PC is a headache. It just is. A million different possibilities of hardware, drivers, etc. As you saw with Rage, all it takes is some bad video card drivers and years of hard work comes off as ‘buggy’ when in fact it’s a really solid, stable game.”
I can’t say I’m all that surprised to hear him say that, considering with PCs you have different hardware being ran on different systems. One thing mentioned in the original interview is piracy, it’s so much easier to pirate a PC game than it is to pirate a console game. Of course console game piracy is a problem as well, just not as large of a problem. Hines later went on to reassure PC players that despite the annoyances he has with developing for PCs that the PC version of Skyrim will be nothing short of amazing saying that they would be “very pleasedâ€.
I personally won’t be playing it on PC, not that I have anything against the PC version, I’ll be playing it on Xbox. In fact I got an email a little bit ago telling me that my copy had been shipped, I should be settling into the world of Skyrim shortly after lunch tomorrow. Most of my friends though are getting it for PC so it’ll be interesting to see how our experiences compare. I am pretty jealous of the mods that they will get though.
