"It is definitely a [factor]," says the nameless Ubisoft developer. "But one good thing about The Division is that we've always considered PC as a separate platform. I've worked on projects before where the PC version's a port from a console, so it carries those limitations over, but we've always been in the mind that we'll have a dedicated PC build, so it hasn't really held it back too much."
 
That all sounds like the sort of answer you'd usually expect, but then he follows up with this: "We do have to kind of keep it in check with consoles because it would kind of be unfair just to push it so far away from them."
 

"It has come to our attention that a comment from one of our team members has been perceived by some members of the community to imply the PC version of The Division was 'held back' and this is simply not true," the Ubisoft representative said. "From the beginning, the PC version of The Division was developed from the ground up, and we're confident players will enjoy the game and the features this version has to offer. And the feedback from PC players who participated in the recent closed beta supports this."

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"It is definitely a [factor]," says the nameless Ubisoft developer. "But one good thing about The Division is that we've always considered PC as a separate platform. I've worked on projects before where the PC version's a port from a console, so it carries those limitations over, but we've always been in the mind that we'll have a dedicated PC build, so it hasn't really held it back too much."
 
That all sounds like the sort of answer you'd usually expect, but then he follows up with this: "We do have to kind of keep it in check with consoles because it would kind of be unfair just to push it so far away from them."
 

 
 
It's not unfair to make the best game possible for each platform. The cost of a high end graphics card cost more than a gaming console does. 
 
 
 
 

chrisdglong

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It's common knowledge that multiplatform games are designed entirely around the lowest hardware configuration, aka consoles.
 
If you want PC games you're going to have to search for them and not from the big publishers. There are so many now days you can't even play them all. The gaming world outside of big marketing budget multiplats is very alive and the quality of them has risen significantly over the years and no, I'm not talking about the gimmick 8bit indie craze either.

Yeah, the big AAA companies make stale dog **** nowadays. Ubisoft, being one of the AAA companies, poops out another stale piece of turd every year for each of their franchises that are now the normal quality of AAA games.... Those AAA games have become the worst of all the games, less Steam EA (early access) games, and then they milk the community with marketing their new DLC packs and their season tickets for DLC... Big name companies have seriously destroyed the gaming industry with greed. How did they do it? Just like cigarette companies, AAA publishers prey on youth (consoles)...