Capcom making PC its main platform going forward

[JackHandy]

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing (I'll leave that up to others to decide), but to me, its yet another signal that the console industry I grew up loving is quickly becoming something I don't really recognize.

I remember back in like '03, someone made a thread asking what age everyone would quit gaming. I laughed and said something like maybe forty. Someone quoted me and said something to the affect of, "Pfft. You know you'll be gaming into your seventies like the rest of us." At the time, I thought he was nuts, but then I thought about it again, and realized that maybe he was right. There really was no reason to quit. As long as you enjoy it, why not just do it until you're dead, regardless of age?

But that was naive, and I now see why.

Back then, we were still plug-and-play. Twitch wasn't a thing. Gaming magazines were still around. Console online-only games barely existed (may not have existed at all). The primary way to buy games was to go into a real store, buy a "complete" game for forty or fifty dollars, then bring it home, pop it in and play. Single-player was king. Multiplayer was--for the most part--local. DLC was so infantile, that no one even cared about it. Same with micro-transactions. Games worked day-one without patches. Consoles as well. AAA games were exploding with creativity (and were rewarded for it in sales). Generational leaps were quantum and absolutely mind-blowing. E3 was so massive that the entire gaming community paused on its axis to observe it. Consoles dropped in price very quickly. Demo disks were still a thing. The Japanese gaming industry (Capcom, Konami, Square etc.) was thriving and a premier force in the industry--you get the point.

Now, to say that one is better than the other is fruitless. What I prefer is what I prefer. If someone prefers the current industry, that's perfectly fine with me. But the point I'm trying to make here is that what I fell in love with (see above), is pretty much dead and gone. Even how Nintendo operates these days seems alien compared to their Gamecube days. It's like the only thing the current gaming industry has in common with the pre-PS3 industry is that it's still called a gaming industry--and that really bums me out, because if things keep going this way, I'm going to end up having to play old consoles and old games for the rest of my life.

Ugh...