| BonfiresDown said: PC exclusives mostly dying out in the noughties was a big loss. |
It was inevitable I guess - as technology progressed, so has the amount of money needed to invest into making a game. And console market was much sweeter than PC due to much lower piracy, so most of PC devs and publishers moved to consoles. But if we take a look at some of the largest gaming IPs currently, GTA and TES, they both started as PC exclusives in 90s.
But then again, there were lot of great PC exclusives that were born in 00s - Deus Ex, The Sims, Arcanum, Red Faction, Gothic, Battlefield, Mafia, Hitman, Dungeon Siege, No One Lives Forever, Neverwinter Nights, Vietcong, Call of Duty (yep), Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Far Cry, The Witcher, and many more, all the way to 2009/10 and Minecraft. Of course most of them became multi-platform in following years.
And that is not including behemoths like WoW and EVE Online.
