The Zone

PC Gaming seems to be heading down the path of the Elitist if the economic decisions made by today's game developers are any indication. Just recently, Lucasarts, developers of the up and coming Star Wars : The Force Unleashed game have stated that there is not going to be any PC version. The rather obscure reason for this decision was that not many people would be able to afford a machine or gaming rig capable of playing the game to its full potential and has thus focused efforts on console development only. According to Lucasarts this means that most gamers can afford a next gen game console compared to a top of the line gaming rig which can churn out even higher resolutions. Unfortunately this is actually true.

Crytek, makers of the gaming rig pushing Crysis have actually had to dumb down their CryEngine so that it can be run off consoles like the Xbox 360 or the PS3 and thus make Crysis viable for the console market. So far there hasn't been any statement from Crytek on whether they will or will not make Crysis 2 for the PC but for the most part it doesn't look good for most PC Gamers out there.

For now, we can't really blame developers for going the console way as in the end, they need to make money. However, this development does not bode well for many players in the industry such as graphic card makers and processor makers as most of the really hardcore (and expensive) stuff have generally been bought by gamers. But with many game devs abandoning the platform, things definitely don't look good for PC gamers unless we can get official console emulators to run off of our superior hardware. Until then, only time will tell.