Consolitis

Consolitis (console + -itis) is a relatively new term in the popular usage,^[1] referring to the decline in quality of PC video games caused by a developer's focus on the console versions. This results in either lower-quality graphics because the game is not optimized to take advantage of the full capabilities of the newer video cards (such as using DirectX 11 over DirectX 9), or gameplay and user interfaces that are designed with gamepad in mind, rather than the traditional keyboard and mouse.^[2][3]

Usual symptoms of consolitis may range from poor support for keyboard/mouse control, low-quality textures and environments or in worse-case scenarios, games that run at sub-par performance due to poorly-optimized code, such as in the PC port of Grand Theft Auto IV, of which even systems that are more than capable of running the game are only able to play at less than 60 frames per second.

References

1. ^ "Consolitis". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Consolitis. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
2. ^ "Consolitis - A PC Gaming Disease". http://dungeonrun.com/articles/editorials/consolitis-a-pc-gaming-disease/. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
3. ^ VanDerWerf, Jacob Vandy. "Firing Points: Consolitis". http://www.firingsquad.com/games/Firing_Points_Consolitis/. Retrieved 25 April 2011.