Wow, interesting that this debate has continued on. You would think
the PC died as a gaming platform yesterday, as opposed to a decade ago
when it actually kicked the bucket.
As "N" said, obviously there is some hyperbole when saying PC gaming
is completely dead. You can still play some great games (as long as
the publisher feels like porting them) and even some exclusives (in
niche genres), and regardless of what other platforms they appear on
any setup where you can play Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 3, Mass Effect
2, and others is not bad at all.
But if you make a list of the gaming franchises that don't appear on
the PC in any shape or form, it's staggering. This wasn't always the
case. PC gamers used to sit pretty with their Deus Ex, their Half
Life, their Fallout 1 & 2, while still getting the most important
console games (just ran across my PC version of Final Fantasy VII the
other day). Now they get no original games and minimal effort ports
(no leaning in MW2, wtf?).
Really, the only PC game of any significance in the last five years is
WoW, which isn't really a game but an addictive, social chat room/
grindfest that can be run on a five year old Celeron laptop.
Finally, I'll simply say this. Two of the most (if not the most) over-
saturated, often published, overexposed franchises in history, Madden
and Guitar Hero/Rock Band, cannot be played on PC. EA pulled the plug
on PC sports games last year, and after GH III flopped it never
returned to the PC. So two games I can get on my *phone*, published
by two huge, greedy companies who would make games for calculator
watches if they thought they could turn a buck... yet they don't
appear on the PC. Now that is what I call dead. I'll even make a
slogan out of it: "If you can't play the current Madden on it, it's
dead."
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