Kasz216 said:
Eh. Maybe 1% of Epics money actually comes from developing.
As far as I know... UE3 isn't NEARLY as popular on PC then as it is on console. You see this with Epic in pretty much every statement they make... they want their customers to develop themselves in a corner so they buy the UE3 engine. Since they don't have a Wii engine and most PC devs are oldschool. |
But just for this reason piracy should hit them less and leasing their engine for PC games, even if smaller than for PS360, should still be an appealing business for them.
I'm sure Crytek and others will be more than happy to lease their engines to PC developers "orphans" of Epic.
BTW, PC, with its HW power growing continuously instead of by steps like consoles generations, towards the end of a gen (and at the beginning of the next, when new console HW isn't maxed out yet) becomes more and more a good showcase for developers and game engines. On PC a well designed and scalable engine can also show improvements of a same given version as PC power grows.
And all this even without considering that it looks like MS is pushing PC gaming again to help Win 7 sales: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=109329
