What are the main tasks and obstacles when porting a PC game to consoles, or vice versa?
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Consoles have standard hardware configurations. PCs are built with a large variety of hardware combinations. It can be difficult to account for every variation of video card, motherboard, processor. Doing this poorly will lead to an unoptimized game that runs slow and/or has bugs and crashes with the hardware.
In addition, however less complicated, are the controls. Button mapping a controller is different than button mapping a keyboard and mouse. It’s not always a smooth transition. Doing this poorly will lead to frustration as players are unable to map the keys on a PC the way they’d like, or the buttons just simply don’t work.
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