PC Gamers: Second Class Citizens??

[Scisca]

Tachikoma said:

Scisca said:

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.

Cool and all, but this has nothing to do with the discussed issue The elephant you described doesn't exist the way you put it. Simple.

PC was put on the backburner when piracy on consoles was easily available and it started its resurgence in that state of the market as well. The fact that secure (thus far) consoles were recently released hasn't changed a single thing thus far for the discussed issue. Has the situation of PC gamers deteriorated once this gen started? No. One could say it's even getting better, as this gen it has become obvious that the PC version of a game will be by far the ultimate version (GTA5, The Witcher 3, Project CARS, etc.) and the console port won't even come close. So it is not an issue and not the reason for the current situation

To put it simple, this feat alone means nothing for this situation, so it can't be called "the elephant". Especially, since I believe that PC market is going to grow and console market is bound to shrink even if consoles remain secure, which will easily eat into whatever can possibly be gained due to consoles being secure.