@skorpion67
Excellent and eloquent post. Hits it right on the head.
All I can add is that eventually all that will be left of PC gaming will, in fact be either
(1) bad console ports
or
(2) terrible PC exclusive games.
At which point, all the best gaming will be on the consoles. The upside? All those thieving bastards will be stuck with either playing the crappy pirated games or buy themselves a console.
Of course, you will still have less than stellar (OK, crappy) games coming out of International regions (e.g. Russia) but over there, given the bar, a gamer's take on what is excellent, is probably what we here tend to look on as being crappy. It happens with material things such as cars, homes, movies etc so I don't see how gaming will be different.
I for one predict that by the time the next console gen comes around, PC gaming would have all but become an afterthought. As I said before, since all console game dev occurs on the PC, releasing a PC game derived from a console game is a no-brainer because if you don't expect to make $10 and you make $5, you're still ahead of the game. The PC will be a throw away loss leader; and its well on its way to being just that. The next console generation will seal the deal. Mark my words.
This comment was edited on Apr 30, 11:53.
Game developers are just human beings who happen to make games for a living. If you want to hold us up to higher standards of conduct, then go ahead
...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them