Apologies? Maybe some are in order after some of the comments and actions Epic has taken in favor of consoles. Over the years Epic has moved PC gaming towards the back of their agenda, and now they want to get back into the PC side of things.
News of this turnaround came out when the President of Epic Games Mike Capps stated the following at Gamescom in Germany:
Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business. Gears of War I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn’t make its money back any more. A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right? You don’t want to see what happens to an industry where it’s Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games any more. That’s not a fun industry. I can’t bet my entire company every time I make a game. That’s a really dangerous business. It’s nice to target the PC as a primary platform again, not just for ports.
So, companies are now claiming that the “console era” maybe coming to an end, as digital distribution services such as Steam, Impulse, Origin, and Direct2Drive are now taking over the mainstream. As consoles becomes more and more PC-like the divide will not be as clear and developers will once again shift attention to the PC.
However, some may find it hard to believe Epic is truly devoted to and shifting back its focus to the PC. Hopefully, this doesn’t turn into “back to PC until the next-gen console” sort of deal.
Source: Tomshardware.com
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Eh, you know they used to be all PC focused, but once the 360 came around they didn’t waste anytime developing exclusively for the system. I bet they will just focus on the PC for a bit until the next console comes around.
Well, porting from PC to Xbox 360 is pretty easy anyways…. they’ll probably spend less porting a PC based game to a Xbox 360 game than the other way around…
Not bad, the console era is over, at least for Epic 😀
Makes sense tbh. PC to consoles is quite easy, while consoles to pc always gives shitty results.
pc to ps3 is pretty shitty… since it’s nothing alike using the cell vs a common cpu…
It’s nice to see Epic coming back to the PC. I’m sure they did well in the console market, but PCs will always be around. I just hope, as many of you stated, that they don’t change their stance the minute the next generation of console gets released.