Hey it's CliffyB saying it not me...  I especially love his comments: "I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," and "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama.".

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=92707

Epic focusing on console titles
News by Ellie Gibson

I disagree. I think he's not making console games because of "dissarray" I think he's making them because he's getting paid the big bucks to do so, and on PC he's getting paultry sums of income, due to pirating, slow game sales, ect.

That's just the nature of the PC beast.

Also, I think the writer of this article missed the point of Cliffy's "Cooking Mama" comment. He meant he's not making any casual type games, while the reviewer thought commented on how bad the game he mentioned was, and not the genre of game.

As a matter of fact, I'm certain Cliffy didn't know himself, if Cooking Mama was a bad game within its genre or not. He picked it because its a well know example, and the name is used as a mocking term for the genre its in.

And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have exhibit #5302582 of how even experienced industry insiders can sometimes be completely clueless about what's going on.

Epic doesn't understand how to move with the times. Digital distribution is the future way of PC gaming, and because they have been jerks to Valve over the years, you can bet their games won't be in that future. Instead, they decided to back Games for Windows Live. Which is like betting on a jackass to win the Kentucky Derby.

Along with this, their (and other Windows Live backing companies) PC game sales have completely died. Of course, the huge drop in quality in their recent ventures like Unreal Tournament 3 didn't help either. These combined factors have basically lead to PC gamers kicking Epic out. Epic has made their bed with Microsoft, and that's where they'll have to lie. Console gaming is all that's left for them.

well its good that they make hardcore AAA games but i dont pc is in a dissaray

Is there anyplace to see how many copies of games are selling on Steam?  I'm just curious because I never seem to encounter any articles from publishers bragging about how many copies of games they've sold on it.  Also I can't understand why some of the publishers on there when we look at their financial statements the PC is either at the bottom or very close to it as far as income is concerned.  If Steam is this sales beast why can't I go to their site and see a top 10 list of games along with their sales?

*Oh and in case anyone is wondering I actually think Steam is brilliant and I hope the next generation of consoles have a similar setup to it.

Not yet, but when steamworks is launched in full we'll be able to check them.

Developers/publishers will know how much their games are selling. We'll only know if they let us know. =P

Oh, oops, you're right. The sales data of steamworks is for the publishers. Only they get it.

Well, in general a game needs to sell much less on Steam to make a profit than in a store anyway. Basically steam cuts out the retailer, and all that's left are the standard publishing fees, but the game is sold for the same price. So, say a developer who sells a copy of their game in a store gets 30% of the sale price after publishing fees and store markups. If that same game is sold on Steam, the developer just pays the publishing, so their profit per game sold more than doubles to something closer to 70% of the sale price.