http://kotaku.com/5820632/why-is-the-new-xcom-a-shooter-because-strategy-games-are-just-not-contemporary 
 
It's not that Strategy games are dying it's that the platform thats good at them PC is racked by piracy which has devistated PC Exclusive Triple A development over the last 7 plus years. 

Crysis 1 was the last only on PC big budget Triple A FPS game a console could'nt do and it aparently sold barely over 80,000 units in it first week on sale. some of that was down to intimidation over specs but the bulk of it was Piracy. 

For those who say what about Crysis 2, None of the open areas in that game are a fraction of the size of the ones in crysis 1 and there are an awful lot more loading screens as well. 

Crysis 2 is console constrained they simply don't have the grunt or maybe more importantly the memory to deal with crysis 1.

RTS games are not as taxing but console controls just don't work for them.
as a result funding for big RTS and Strategy games has seen a serious decline comepared to the late 90's as an example. I'm sure Starcraft 2 only got made due to Blizzards independence from activision and the money to be made in south korea. 
 
The The Only two Big rts Devs left I can think of are Relic and Blizzard

I'm just gonna say that Frozen Synapse is the best strategy game I have played in years (on the PC).

I guess that explains why my interest in video gaming as a whole is waning.

I guarantee that Civ 5's sales will dwarf what X-com does.  You are just wrong, the PC is where money is made.

Nothing dies, there are only trends. Strategy games will make some sort of comeback in the future. They will then fade again, and the cycle will continue.

I'll quote Gabe Newell concerning piracy: (Not the exact same words though) 
Valve don't care about piracy, it's never been an issue for them and they don't think it's what people make it out to be. Those who spend over a thousand dollars on a PC surely can afford games.. They choose to pirate (when they do) because they don't feel the content and services are worth the price tag. 
Which is why Valve games are the least pirated games on the internet, as well as games like WoW and Starcraft: Those games care about the player and give him all the support and services and content he needs, and therefore he chooses to buy those games. 
 
 
Piracy is not affecting PC gaming nearly as you think it is, Steam makes billions of dollars in sales, people have been converting from consoles to PC more and more in the last two years, and Crysis sold 3 million units

Sigh...

Im gonna say it has more to do with them not being capable of making a good strategy game. Its like how people say platformers are dying because all they're capable of making is shit like Cameleon Twist. No, see, when a great platformer comes out people play it. When a great strat game comes out people play it. If you can't make a good one, that's cool, stay in the safe zone. Even mediocre shooters tend to sell well. But don't act like it has anything to do with a genre being dead.

@endaround said:

I guarantee that Civ 5's sales will dwarf what X-com does. You are just wrong, the PC is where money is made.

Here here sir!

Starcraft 2 sales were over four million, a number Xcom will never reach. The Total War games (the recently released Shogun 2 being one of the best selling) and Dawn of War 2 sold really well too.

@ryanwho:   Chameleon Twist? That's an odd choice. Didn't platformers die out in the early 2000s, when open-world games and FPSes started becoming more popular? As for strategy games, I'd point to Fire Emblem, but last I checked (now), the latest installment is stuck in Japan.

Im sure a lot of gamers, being reactionary and hyperbolic, would agree that whatever happens to not be the biggest genre at the time is "dead". If a genre being "dead" at this point just means a genre made the mistake of not being an FPS, then they made a fair point. Cus the original Xcom is a notFPS and everyone knows the notFPS genre is dying.

what about Creative Assembly? they make Turn-based strategy,real-time tactics almost like an rts game

• Shogun 2
• Starcraft 2
• Civilization 5
• C&C 3
• Dawn of War (1-2 + a half a dozen expansions)
• HoMM6 (coming this summer)

Triple A strategy games are a thing of the past you guyz!

Its just a sort of Ricky Bobby way of looking at things. If you're not in first, you're in last. People know that movie was satire, right? I don't think people should apply that to the real world and dub all things less than 1st place as 'dead'.

While reading this, I have SC2 alt-tabbed. I don't think strategy games are going anywhere.

Well actually the X-Com dev, at no point in the interview Kotaku are referencing, says that "strategy games are dying", you're twisting his words. What he actually says is "turn-based strategy games were no longer the hottest thing on planet Earth" and "strategy games are just not contemporary", these are not the same as saying that strategy games are dying. I think that strategy games are certainly one of the lesser genres now, but as others here have said Civilisation V, Dawn of War II and Starcraft II are just three examples that show that for some people strategy games are still big business.
 
It's very easy to point at the decline of a type of game or a change in the industry and say "this is all piracy's fault" without considering other possible factors. If piracy is killing all strategy games then why do RTS games remain afloat, while TBS games have received far less success in recent years? Personally, I believe this is due to the majority of modern games consumers wanting a more fast-paced, action-oriented experience in their games, and I believe the fact that strategy games aren't as big as other genres is at least partly due to the fact that more people want to play games about hand-eye co-ordination, simple pattern recognition, etc. than games that require deep thought. On top of this strategy games just aren't as accessible as many other genres of video games.

http://kotaku.com/5820632/why-is-the-new-xcom-a-shooter-because-strategy-games-are-just-not-contemporary 
 
It's not that Strategy games are dying it's that the platform thats good at them PC is racked by piracy which has devistated PC Exclusive Triple A development over the last 7 plus years. 

Crysis 1 was the last only on PC big budget Triple A FPS game a console could'nt do and it aparently sold barely over 80,000 units in it first week on sale. some of that was down to intimidation over specs but the bulk of it was Piracy. 

To Xcom dev: SUCK SATANS COCK. also, this xcom game is gonna blow

dumbest thing I've read in a while.
 
strategy games are taking off.
 
PC gaming is an unstoppable powerhouse.  There are more exclusives on PC this year than any other platform.
 
Console game publishers continue with the tired and overblown piracy snowjob to cover for their push towards a locked down, nickle-and-dime gravy train dream of the future of game distribution platforms.  Less control for the user = more cash for them and less pricing pressures from competitive distribution channels (as on the PC).

http://kotaku.com/5820632/why-is-the-new-xcom-a-shooter-because-strategy-games-are-just-not-contemporary 
 
It's not that Strategy games are dying it's that the platform thats good at them PC is racked by piracy which has devistated PC Exclusive Triple A development over the last 7 plus years. 

Crysis 1 was the last only on PC big budget Triple A FPS game a console could'nt do and it aparently sold barely over 80,000 units in it first week on sale. some of that was down to intimidation over specs but the bulk of it was Piracy.

At first I thought you were talking about the real X-Com devs. Then I realized it was about the XCOM devs instead. Misleading hyphens.