"The PC developers beat the console developers and what they won was that they got to make console games." - Jeff Gerstman
Basically, some people feel that by having consoles be the lead platforms for games it makes PC gaming worse.
10 years ago most of the big western studios had the PC as their lead platform and the console versions of their games were inferior. Then the Xbox came out and western developers got to work with hardware, software, and a platform holder they were used to and they all jumped ship into the console space except for Blizzard and Valve. The genres they loved were made for a wider audience with a different control scheme and they accused developers "dumbing down" their games, see: Deus Ex vs Deus Ex: Invisible War. The PC versions of games became shitty ports that barely worked instead of versions that took advantage of the more powerful PC hardware.
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