| orniletter said: to be honest: The big Japanese publishers (with the exception beeing Nintendo and Namco Bandai) ...went downhill (to a varying degree) ...he is kind of right :/, although the big Western publishers are pretty shitty too |
The reason western development has been pushed is because the PC devs switched to consoles after MS came out with the Xbox. PC gamers and the community kind of looked down on the console gaming community because of the low level tech until after the PS/N64 era. PS2/Xbox era Microsoft brought the PC world with them when they came to consoles and it set up the floodgates for the top PC companies to come full time this gen which caused western devs to up their game even more. There was a time in the current gen where PC gaming had a drought because console gaming had the full attention of the top PC developers, Epic being one of them. Even Blizzard has its sights set on console development now and gimped Diablo 3 to appeal to the console audience.
