tjallern said:
only difference from 15 years ago is that now even MS is moving away from it to support the 360 almost exclusively. didn't even Splinter Cell get cancelled on PC? Alan Wake is another game that was originally a PC game. I don't like this trend at all. |
Start-up and indie developers will always come in and take the place of those big name houses that stop developing for PC. Unfortunately, so much pirating goes on with PC gaming, the big house developers stop seeing the value in releasing their games on that platform.
The last big PC purchase I made was when I built the machine I'm on now--it was built specifically to run Crysis, which was supposed to be a big shot in the arm for the PC, namely PC exclusive titles. Crytek gained a lot of street cred among PC gamers because of FarCry and because they like delivering games that push current PC hardware to the limits. Unfortunately, I think the game only sold about 800,000 copies in its first month and got pirated like CRAZY. I think I read somewhere that in the first week there were more pirated copies out in the wild than legit copies. And not long after that, Crytek announced they would probably no longer develop exclusively for PC anymore.
One thing you can say about the PS3--developers aren't going to get ripped off on their big titles. You could have said the same thing about the 360 if they hadn't chosen to use standard DVDs, but the lion's share of the pirating happens on the PC.
