Vlado posted...
PC gaming was never dead, it's not a "revival". Though the boost Steam provides sure is nice.
Vlado posted...
Not at all, but console (read as: anti-PC) fanatics like to make people believe that, lol. If you're really interested in this issue, I recommend doing some homework.
Seeing as I was working in the game industry at the time...PC gaming was in a really rough spot. For instance, Call of Duty 4 had a 90% piracy rate. If you looked at NPD data from the time for PC, literally nothing put up remotely interesting numbers except World of Warcraft and the occasional Sims expansion; other games almost never broke 100k in a month, and certainly wouldn't come close to breaking the million mark (which console games did on a pretty regular basis). All of the old WRPG makers died out or moved primarily to console. Shooters, even if they were released on PC, usually had a console version too.
Nowadays the shoe is on the other foot. Activision and EA have closed down the majority of their console development because they feel it's not profitable. Most of the job growth is in MMOs and Facebook Games (both PC focused), with a few showing up in iPhone. There have been a lot of indie developer success stories on PC too.
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