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Originally Posted by frazod
I understand perfectly - Bill and his Microsuck goons want me to buy a friggin XBox.
Or more to the point, they want parents of kids who want the game for Christmas to buy an XBox.
It's all marketing. And greed. And bullshit. Like Microsuck hasn't reamed the universe for enough cash.
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Actually from a development standpoint, it is a lot easier to develop a game when the hardware is basically a known entity in the equation. It might be possible they are building the game for the Xbox, then go back and retouch the code to port it to the PC. Architectually the two are basically the same, however there are millions of different combinations of hardware items when your build a PC.
The QA cycle I'm sure has to account for this on the PC version whereas the Xbox does not. I could be completely wrong, and Microsoft could indeed have some marketing reason behind this, but I'm sure those with Xbox consoles are glad they don't have to wait for a PC version to become 100% stable when their version is ready to ship.