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I woundn't say this is suprising news. Most of the big companies and triple-a studios have been in a race to the bottom in recent years, and these are the main companies marketing and selling to console and mobile users. PC on the other hand, has always been less ruled by the big players and thus hasn't been as impacted.
PC gamers all have different machines, which must make optimization a nightmare. Additionally, those with shitty machines are giving games bad reviews based on their own limitations. So much easier to pirate a game on PC. I heard something like 30% of gamers pirate at least some games.
Doesn't look like an attractive market to be honest. I'm not surprised companies just went with consoles
Edit: get mad all you want but I'm thinking of this as a capitalist issue, and game corporations only care about your money, not your convenience
DirectX, Vulkan and OpenGL do all of the talking to the hardware, those have been around for a very long time. The imaginary issue of 'you have to target millions of configurations' is simply not true.
I'm simply stating the issues that are brought up by the game companies themselves. At the end of the day you don't have to believe them but you have to accept that they're capitalists, and if they're not interested in the PC game market, it's because it isn't profitable or worth going after.
You'd be best to not repeat pr statements if you don't know about the underlying technology then. Companies will say whatever they think sounds best and won't immediately get them in obvious trouble.
You PC gamers are such noise in the air, know it alls. Then you wonder why we all ignore you
You're buying into brand war bullshit. I'm not in Playstation threads telling them to get a pc. You're here defending nameless companies that dont care about you.
Play and buy the things that make you happy, a lot of people aren't happy with console offerings as of late. That's all it is, there is no righteous crusade, it's video games man.