Why do game companies insist on making FPS games on consoles?

Question

Going from a keyboard and mouse to a console controller is awful. I'll admit that the Wii has potential with its controller though. In my opinion, FPS games were meant for the PC, just like realtime strategy games (Warcraft, C&C).

Answer 1

Because it's possible to get used to analog controller controls for FPS games, and most people are unwilling to invest the money necessary to have a good gaming PC, so they settle for a console. However, they still want to be able to play FPS games, so therefore game companies still make them.

Answer 2

New consoles advance the technology around gaming. Imagine the 8-bit era. If new consoles were never made, then there wouldn't have ever been a 16-bit era, thus no 32-bit era, and then no 3D gaming. The more advanced a console is, the more can be done with it. Gaming is evolving around the clock, and after a while, customers would want a change (because a lack of change or variation in gaming is what led to the first two video game crashes). Luckily, publishers found ways to keep the old generation of games alive with downloadable content. Technology never stops advancing. By 2040, virtual reality gaming will probably dominate the market.

Answer 3

I play FPS's for both consoles(Halo1&2, DAH(3rdperson)) and for PC(little bit of CS, lots of C&C Renegade, lots of HaloPC) and I personally find that for consoles I feel like I'm more immersed in the actual fighting, besides the difference in games pressing a trigger and moving a thumbstick just feels like your more apart of the action than using WASD and clicking on ppl's heads(which is all HS's really amount to at the most basic level on the pc)

Not to mention that as more and more consoles get internet access most FPS's on consoles become just as viable/profitable for multiplayer on a console as on a pc and become even more profitable as people have to pay to access the internet through these consoles(just look at XBOX Live and Halo2 1 Billion games played already)

Answer 4

Because people are willing to exchange money for them. If the market went away, so would the games. Why does it bother you? If you don't want a FPS on a console, don't buy one.

Answer 5

Well.. given the insane success of Halo and Halo 2..

I'd say the answer is, "Because people buy them." o.O

*edit*
Wow, Dear Whatever-Jerk. Thank you for giving me a negative rating for answering correctly, just because you don't like this perticular aspect of basic economics.

*gives whatever-jerk a negative rating for being insecure and taking it out on others around him*

God? Why did you make the stupid people and why so many?

Answer 6

Sounds like you sit on your butt alot playing those games on the PC eh? I bet I'm right!