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The Dreamcast was notoriously easy to copy games for, it's a darling of gamers but the companies making games didn't like it one bit.

And while I do love my PC for gaming, it definitely feels more and more like an afterthought these past couple of years.

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> And while I do love my PC for gaming, it definitely feels more and more like an afterthought these past couple of years.

Whenever people complain that the UI for AAA games like, for example, Skyrim, is designed with a controller in mind and not a keyboard & mouse, I just point out that Skyrim sold 10 times more copies for console than it did for PC.

If you want "PC master race" games, you gotta start selling games on that platform. Right now, it's a tiny fraction. (With a few exceptions, like Civilization games.)

Citation needed.

According to this analyst, revenue from PC games passed that of consoles this year.

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/pc-games-have-surpassed-...

I've been feeling better and better about PC gaming these past few years. Most people I know have been making the switch to PC from Consoles. The biggest factor being steam sales (or X company sales)... the sales themselves reduce the risk associated with buying games; especially, triple A titles which tend to be expensive and hit or miss.

Grand Theft Auto for PC at 4K, while requiring a helluva graphics card, blows away consoles. To be honest any game I've played on a PC has been a better experience (with the exception of racing games and some side scrollers which benefit from an input device not being a keyboard or mouse).

The Xbox controller is supported by almost all games on PC out of the box, nowadays. It's the defacto PC standard.

Lots of games from triple-a studios support DS4 controllers as well. As in switching button prompts and using the light bar. Without the need for DS4Windows or Steams new controller support.

You're right, most games available on PC and console are usually better on PC, but I'm talking about Mortal Kombat, Batman Arkham Knight, No Man's Sky, Dark Souls, etc.

Admittedly, on PC, there's probably hundreds of great games for each bad port, but it seems to happen more and more. Maybe I'm conflating it with the rise of botched releases in general.

And yes, GTA4 is one heck of a PC port.

Its interesting, on Xbox one gaming feels less and less of an afterthought. :)

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