- Synthmilk
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People are forgetting the Halo Effect.
Halo PC was popular, wasn't the player numbers up in the 9k's in 2004? But due to the lead (lag), most people moved on to other lag free(er) games.
I assure you that if Halo 2 Vista is good, then we shall see, within a year, a good chunk of players. "True" PC gamers play a game because it's fun, not because it's all shiny and brand new, and I think people underestimate how large a chunk of PC gamers are in the "True" category.
It's 4 years after Halo PC's release and there are still about 1k players online at any given time, I say that's pretty darned good. And considering the new tech and games that are comming out, a lot of those people will more than likely be getting new computers in the next year or two, and will get Vista along with it if their smart.
Vista does not require any service packs to fix bugs, Microsoft can't make a bad Beta driver work, the blame for bad Vista drivers falls on the companies that make the hardware, especially since for printers and camera's, it's an entirely new driver for each and every product, and they release new products every 2 months.
You expect Microsoft to put in the effort to make these drivers work? Insane, the Vista Beta has been out for months and as such if drivers don't work it's even more the fault of the hardware manufacturer. To run Vista effectively you require a computer that is a step up from what is "mid range" right now, and yes, right now, a mear MONTH after it's release, only nerds and new computer owners will have that.
Halo 2 Vista releases in May, that's still a month and a bit away, a lot of people are jumping on the cheap upgrade from XP to Vista bandwagon, but what I think we have here is a leap forward in computing standards. 512MB just won't cut it anymore, not if you want the improvements people seek. Even Mac's come standard with 1 Gig of RAM, and 2 Gig's of RAM is hardly that expensive anymore. The Core 2 Duo and nVidia 8 series graphics cards are the greatest advances in capability we have seen in a decade, games are already comming out that push the 8 series high end cards.
If gamers wan't to keep up, their going to have to get new computers or upgrade, a next generation is uppon us, and inside one year from now, I expect games and hardware to leave people who bought awesome machines even 2 years ago wondering what happened. In 6 months these early next-gen technologies will be cheap enough to be reasonable, I expect to be getting a new computer around 6 months from now, and Vista and H2V will be there waiting, and I expect it to grow significantly soon after for the reason that it's Halo, which everyone has heard about and just MUST have, and because PC gamers remember how good Halo 1 was and want more Halo.
Yay for long-ass rambling posts that somehow stay on topic!