This sucks for PC gaming in only 1 way. We (eventually 'cause it ain't coming to consoles anytime soon, maybe end of 2012 or 2013?) are losing a great exclusive.
Exclusives matter, unfortunately, to the masses. You know, the people we, as PC gamers want to be more aware of PC gaming, and to be drawn to it. Well, the masses need somethign to fixate on, otherwise they'll put the blinders on and keep on riding the mainstream console wave.
Ofcourse, the flip side is that EVERY developer is going multi-plat because as a business you just can't ignore another platform waiting to give you money for your product. It's just as stupid, really, from a purely business angle (and all other things being equal, like funding, specific game requirements) to put a game just on consoles (or on a particular console) as it is to JUST put it on the PC.
UNLESS there's some giant entitiy willing to fork over tons for money for the priviledge.
The consoles have that. Their parent companies spend BILLIONS of dollars in marketing, and in getting devs to create "exclusive content" for them. The PC doesn't have that.
In the end the console gamers win because they get a great, established, polished game, and PC gamers lose because, although the first iteration of Diablo on consoles won't affect the PC version, many other games DO suffer from being dumbed down either on a technologicla or a gameplay level, or (horror) both.
Maybe we need someone to do the same for PC's. I don't know why the hardware and software companies that live off of PC gaming don't do this. They should have ways of helping promote PC games and PC gmaing culture. But they don't bother. Boggles the mind.
Their latest attempt at promoting PC gaming has been the PC Gaming Alliance. Which has done precisely tow things: Jack and ****.
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