Jerykk wrote on Mar 26, 2011, 23:35:
That's not really a question at all. Developers design for the lowest common denominator. In this case, that's consoles. Designing a game for PC and then trying to port it to consoles is difficult because they have completely different control schemes and hardware capabilities. X360 and PS3 are stuck with 512MB of RAM total (system and GPU combined). Trying to squeeze a PC game into that tiny amount is problematic, not to mention the 5-year-old videocards and CPUs that consoles use. Crytek could not port Crysis to consoles for that reason. Crysis 2 was designed for consoles and then ported to PC as a result. In addition, converting a PC interface into one that can be used with a gamepad takes a lot of work. Finally, PC and console audiences are different. PC gamers typically like deeper, more complex and challenging games while console gamers typically like more accessible and visceral games. If games were all designed for the PC, the console versions would have to be dumbed down. Some developers rebalance their console-to-PC ports but it's not very common, due to the PC having the smallest market.

For all the hate that console-to-PC ports receive, those ports generally end up a whole lot better than PC-to-console ports. The PC version is the best version about 99% of the time regardless of the lead platform.