PC Gamers: Second Class Citizens??

[Tachikoma]

Scisca said:

Tachikoma said:

Piracy on the consoles i explicity specified, does not exist. (yet)

Cool, but the topic isn't about this gen only and the discussed issue hasn't appeared this gen. Nothing has changed in the industry across the last gens, so your argument bears no weight. Piracy or no piracy - nothing changes for the discussed matter, which proves there in no such "elephant" in the room. PC became marginalized when console piracy was easy and quite common, with all consoles on the market cracked. The fact that these 3 consoles aren't cracked yet has no impact whatsoever.

And yet, it does, since investment per title is much greater now than in previous generations, so companies have more to lose by investing in pc builds of a game that may or may not be successful, many publishers only finalize the descision for 8th gen pc ports based off of the commercial viability of the console counterparts, conversely if a game sells terribly on console and isn't a costly port, publishers may choose to have the title ported to PC cheaply to try and decrease the impact, or if the title sells extremely well on console they may choose to release on pc riding on the back of the consoles buzz and praise.

Few developers and publishers these days focus on joint pc/console releases unless the title is a longstanding franchise, or if they have specifically developed the title on an engine that already has good support for PC.