Why is Microsoft killing off PC gaming?

[Megadude]

nightsurge said:
Piracy is killing PC gaming. Consoles are less prone to piracy, but even then the 360 will lose many thousands of sales due to piracy.

Just over the last year piracy of games, movies, songs, etc. accounted for $50 billion of lost income. When pretty much every game on PC is available free via piracy, it makes developers want to switch to safer platforms. No one listen to Megadude. He's an anti-MS, PS3 fanboy.

 

See this was a reasonable post until you had to tack on the personal attack at the end.

 

Aside from people trying to brush off the thread as a "fanboy rant" some good points have been brought up.

 

Piracy is one, royalty fees are another and difficulty optimizing during development. And I would also like to add XBox live fees. These seem to be the reason behind Microsofts waning support for games for Windows in favor (heavy favor) of the X-Box.

 

So most here would agree that it is not a mistake to concentrate on the X-Box brand over PC gaming. That's fine if that is your opinion.