So is PC games pretty much non existant at E3?

WarHammer: DoW II, Warhammer online, Sims 3,Doom 4, Crysis Warhead, Empire Total War, Space Siege, Romance of Three Kingdoms XI, Disciples 3, Heavy Duty...

ah heck, follow this link, and filter it by PC.

http://e3.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&sort=popular

There are a bunch of big titles that are for PC, among other platforms, but not a whole lot of PC exclusive content. Not really a case of E3 being a console show, but more of a manifestation of an industry-wide trend to not make PC-exclusive titles anymore.

but more of a manifestation of an industry-wide trend to not make PC-exclusive titles anymore.

dar_

That tend extends to the PS3 and 360 too, though. The PC has about as many exclusives as either of those. Everyone multiplats these days. The only real exception is the Wii, due to the nature of the machine, and sometimes the handhelds.

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but more of a manifestation of an industry-wide trend to not make PC-exclusive titles anymore.

fatshodan

That tend extends to the PS3 and 360 too, though. The PC has about as many exclusives as either of those. Everyone multiplats these days. The only real exception is the Wii, due to the nature of the machine, and sometimes the handhelds.

It's understandable, considering the that the current generation of consoles is relatively young. There is no incentive to keep games PC exclusive if you can expand to the console market, and hardware currently does not impede it because PCs haven't advanced leaps and bounds ahead of the consoles yet. Plus, the PC platform isn't owned by one company who could gently encourage publishers to pump out exclusives by means of checks for hefty amounts of money. On the other hand, expanding to the console markets means lots more profit for those that do.

During the Far Cry 2 interview during the live E3 show, one thing that the Ubi dude said stood out to me. He basically said that Ubi isn't in the business of making PC exclusive games these days. So, they ported the whole thing to the consoles.

I think gamespot did a bad job of covering the pc games Ign has tons of pc games at E3 dispite the repuation

http://pc.ign.com/index/e3/2008/games/index.html

http://livewire.ign.com/2008/e3/index.html

I think pc games would have had a bigger line up because there is alot of companies not coming to E3 too

The majority of the games at E3 that have interested my the most are console only games which is a little disheartening for me as a PC gamer. Theres only a few games announce for the PC that have got my excited but theres so many more on the consoles that have me just as excited. It doesn't help that the big 3 conferences are all console related, the PC platform could seriously do with its own conference. What ever has happened to this "PC Gaming Alliance" that was set up?1005

The big player in the best position to push for something like that for the PC platform would be Microsoft. And, they HAVE been pushing their Games for Windows quite a bit, recently. However, studios making games for Windows aren't really required to deal with Microsoft to get a game out, and so, the platform developers are a whole lot less unified. If you ask me, that's one of the nice things about the platform.

I found this link yesterday

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/blizzard-micros.html

I would like to see sony or even apple get their hands in the pc game Industry. For sonythey should make a OS operating system. Then you would see real action in the pc market. i also think alot of companies dislike micro soft OS they would go over sony for sure. Apple needs to losen up a bit on the mac and cross over on to the pc gaming side.

I also think that the eneegers for console have been running after the pc game tittles. however there is alot of big pc game companies like ncsoft,blizzard, lucas arts seirra backing pc game Industry. Even bio -ware is backing up the pc gaming industry by making dragon age. All the old game devs are making it just for pc. We have spore from Ea too as well.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/01/activision-not-attending-e3-2008/

check IGN dragon age the bio ware game devs talks about pc games

I found this link yesterday

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/blizzard-micros.html

I would like to see sony or even apple get their hands in the pc game Industry. For sonythey should make a OS operating system. Then you would see real action in the pc market. i also think alot of companies dislike micro soft OS they would go over sony for sure. Apple needs to losen up a bit on the mac and cross over on to the pc gaming side.

I also think that the eneegers for console have been running after the pc game tittles. however there is alot of big pc game companies like ncsoft,blizzard, lucas arts seirra backing pc game Industry. Even bio -ware is backing up the pc gaming industry by making dragon age. All the old game devs are making it just for pc. We have spore from Ea too as well.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/01/activision-not-attending-e3-2008/

check IGN dragon age the bio ware game devs talks about pc games

blackdreamhunk

They don't need to make thier own OS if all PC games just offerd full support for OpenGL or even help improve OpenGL then add more support for *nix systems then we would have no need for microsoft at all. Just the OpenGL support would be enough for me, and would make it cross platform(for pcs)