Are Consoles ruining the gaming industry?

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Complex is not necessarily better, a good design would have as much as complexity that's required to run the game without over burden the user with extra commands. While I do agree there are some games dumbed down due to console/PC multiplatforming, these games usually originated on console. In addition, this year is apparently quite good for PC, so you shouldn't be too concerned.

Also, there's plenty of good games still on PC, they are just harder to find since most of them come from EU and Asia (minus Japan, I miss Taikou Risshiden and Uncharted Waters, sigh) Russia?.

In short, consoles can cause games to be dumbed down, but those games are usually focused on the original console anyway and get ported to PC. Any PC game that get ported to console and still not up to standard might mean that it wasn't so good in the first place. As for "casual"... Flash games, anyone? As for simplification, that depends on the region, I guess, some franchise appeared to have died out... although new ones are always there to take its place. It's probably because there's more money on console gaming, for the moment at least, than PC, though PC should have pretty good legs (and is cheap to produce).

P.S: Give Relic's SLG games a try, anything by Valve and (minus any MMO) Blizzard should be pretty good too. Remember, complex game is not necessarily a good one (since it's much diffcult to make a game that's complex because it's so brimming with contents that it have to be, than it is complex because the developers lack understanding of a good user interface)

Edit: Man... Is this Wall of Text even readable? I really should sleep NOW.