Eh, there’s boxing and UFC/MMA in general, although those don’t get near the views team-based sports gets.
Although one thing that would help fighting games in general, is if more people traveled to tournaments. There’d be reason for companies to sponsor tournaments if there were more numbers. But that’ll never happen because 98% of the current community is broke as a joke.
I’ve always thought of this too. If you look @ the most popular competitive games, they’re almost always PC exclusive or PC main.
I’m a PC gamer that hasn’t turned on my PS3 in over a year, and while I firmly believe PCs are much more suited for community connectivity and online multiplayer, I just don’t think PC main is a realistic route for traditional FG scene.
I’m very glad that companies are at least starting to release their titles on PC and thats a good trend imo, but don’t really see (or wish for that matter) to be PC main anytime soon.
While I would say keyboards are less intuitive than a gamepad, it is a viable input device and superior to gamepads for a number of reasons. Besides the ease of use, there is nothing a gamepad does better than a keyboard.
SF4 on PC is busted. I loaded up the game, typed in Shoryuken and Ryu didn’t do shit.
http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vg/thumb/1372/40/1372400503400s.jpg
Computers are balls to run an event on. Not all sticks are plug and play, and not all games accept plug and play.
SFIV AE on pc needs to be restarted to recognize a stick, and before they patched it 90% of sticks needed to use x360ce to work.
stick checks on top of button checks yo
i still prefer playing on PC when i’m home though. dat 1080p! 
anyway, it’s pretty laughable how the FGC, now being bigger than ever, gets depressed by esports prizes/popularity. what happened to having fun, enjoying what we have (which is a lot better than the mid '00s)?
I’m not depressed by it but if you ever checked out Chris g’s twitter…lol
At this point in time it seems like esports is on the horizon seeing how successful some PC games are doing yet it all seems Pretty damn far away in my opinion.
Put yourself into the shoes of a player who is competitive enough to be interested in tournaments, but busy enough IRL that you can’t go yourself and have to make do with watching streams:
LoL player sees something amazing on stream -> "I can’t wait to hop onto LoL after this stream and incorporate that new hotness into my own gameplay!"
UMVC3 player sees something amazing on stream -> “I can’t wait to hop onto training mode after this stream, practice that new hotness for a few hours each day, and then and incorporate it into my own gameplay in a week or two!”
The FGC is much harder to get into because of the above, so the community is smaller. Smaller community means less sponsors, meaning less paper to go around.
Yeah, hopefully a future port will have HD sprites that actually look like their originals and haven’t been Udonized/broken nosed into oblivion.
I’d totally pay to see someone rocking a PC keyboard on SFIV at EVO.
FGC can’t be sponsored because they’re too volatile.
That’s not hard to fix for future games, though, and it’s the player’s job to bring a controller that is compatible with whatever system we’re playing on in either case (and it’s not hard to find such a thing).
It is when PC Hardware and compatibility is all over the place.
USB is not all over the place, and everybody knows the OS the system will be running.
It’s also much more expensive for TO’s to get PCs for events.
Damn this was a bumped old thread.
Also if SteamOS takes off and fighting games start getting released for it with an easy (both for devs and consumers) system for switching controllers easily, then this would become a lot more possible.
SFIV isn’t even on linux, good luck with that.