PC no longer gets big exclusives I’ve realised

I just don't see the point in crying over the fact that PC doesn't get many AAA exclusives. You have GP + Sony first party exclusives + more often then not Ninty games plays better and looks much better on PC than on their own platform (sue it takes a few yeas fo emu to kick in). PC has never been in such a great state.
No there isn't, games are on more devices than ever now including phones and handhelds etc, you can play them nearly anywhere now, and not much is exclusive now and i'm not crying about it either. the thread is about PC not getting the big exclusives anymore.
 
Many here keep pushing PC due to it having more console games without realising that it's a two way street, consoles now have all the big PC games.

Most people understand that, and likely assume everyone else gets that it's a given. Either way, the quality average of big games this gen has been worse, so I'll take more small games.

Each gen we've been moving every more into a multi-plat world, where really the only console maker left doing them is Nintendo, and even them you can emulate all their games up to the Switch 1. The amount of people that have become so concerned with Sony and Microsoft doing it borders from tired (and often weird) business head-cannon discussion to straight up platform warring.

I've been glad to see any PC games getting ported to console, especially as graphical advancement has hit diminished returns....just like I'm glad Sony and Xbox games are coming to my preferred platform. When I saw the Switch 2 joycons mimic a mouse, my brain immediately went to all the great strategy and sim games absent on consoles, or just the newest Civilization not being such a sluggish experience anymore on one due to the limitations of analog sticks.

Valve is already attempting to expand Proton to translate x86 games to run on arm-based hardware, which would open PC games to MacOS, Android, and likely iOS/iPadOS as well.
 
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No there isn't, games are on more devices than ever now including phones and handhelds etc, you can play them nearly anywhere now, and not much is exclusive now and i'm not crying about it either. the thread is about PC not getting the big exclusives anymore.
Games being on phones and little handhelds are only a threat to consoles. They have no effect on PC at all, you would never want to play a proper PC RTS, or a SIM game o a proper shooter on any of those devices anyway, they have console stick controls.
 
Games being on phones and little handhelds are only a threat to consoles. They have no effect on PC at all, you would never want to play a proper PC RTS, or a SIM game o a proper shooter on any of those devices anyway, they have console stick controls.
Yeah, i don't use them for gaming but plenty do.
 
Yeah, i don't use them for gaming but plenty do.
Those little devices are a two way street. The 'gamers' who play on phones might have never ever bothered trying some games on consoles or PC had they not tried some games on a phone and thought 'hey this is kinda cool let me see how playing on a proper gaming machine looks and feels like'.

I doubt there are many PC or console gamers who transitioned exclusively to phone gaming... sure some investors, seeing how much some of the shovelware games bring on phones might invest their instead on PC or console triple AAA, but these are not really gaming lovers and often they like to dictate to devs to follow one trend or another and games most often end up pure hot garbage.
 
Top of my head?

Counterstrike 2 is the biggest game on PC right now?

Delta force has been out on PC for ages.
DOTA 2 as well as WoW Classic/retail as well are huge. Definitely bigger and more played than any Sony exclusive at one time concurrently (daily). The only large exclusive game I'd say that can top those is something like Mario Kart.

But yeah CS2 is massive. With well over 1M players daily.
 
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Those little devices are a two way street. The 'gamers' who play on phones might have never ever bothered trying some games on consoles or PC had they not tried some games on a phone and thought 'hey this is kinda cool let me see how playing on a proper gaming machine looks and feels like'.

I doubt there are many PC or console gamers who transitioned exclusively to phone gaming... sure some investors, seeing how much some of the shovelware games bring on phones might invest their instead on PC or console triple AAA, but these are not really gaming lovers and often they like to dictate to devs to follow one trend or another and games most often end up pure hot garbage.
i've never classed them the same as PC and Console games, infact they are mostly cash cows to me, but they rake in a lot of money for the gaming industry so i doubt they are going away anytime soon.
 
DOTA 2 as well as WoW Classic/retail as well are huge. Definitely bigger and more played than any Sony exclusive at one time concurrently (daily). The only large exclusive game I'd say that can top those is something like Mario Kart.

But yeah CS2 is massive. With well over 1M players daily.
Doesn't count apparently
 
i've never classed them the same as PC and Console games, infact they are mostly cash cows to me, but they rake in a lot of money for the gaming industry so i doubt they are going away anytime soon.
Sadly they are not.. the mobile gaming revenue keeps on growing, but whatever floats their boat as saying goes. Same as some people loves fast food even though nowadays you can almost afford to go to a little cafe/little restaurant and get a solid proper healthier meal for a very similarish price. These fast food lovers are same people who loves mobile gaming.
 
Doesn't count apparently
Its a weird argument tbh. These games and franchises have been around for decades. And are still among the most played games.

These are the type of games Sony wish they had under their belt. Like Microsoft has Minecraft + CoD and Epic, Fortnite.
 
Sadly they are not.. the mobile gaming revenue keeps on growing, but whatever floats their boat as saying goes. Same as some people loves fast food even though nowadays you can almost afford to go to a little cafe/little restaurant and get a solid proper healthier meal for a very similarish price. These fast food lovers are same people who loves mobile gaming.
I can't speak for fast food lovers lol, i have a takeaway now and then, but Mobile games are here to stay.
 
PC doesn't need exclusives when it has 99% of games. Consoles lack backward capability which is far more important than a couple of exclusive games. Those exclusive games will be playable on PC either through an eventual official release or a emulation.
 
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Well i bought all the top PC games during that time, 99 percent mostly single player, so maybe you shouldn't be commenting either then, we have different opinions and my original post didn't mention MP games, i don't care about them and it's irrelevant to the point, PC is no longer the main sole focus of the biggest Triple A SP games companies on it's own like it use to be 20 years ago, it's a simple fact, stop mentioning MP, it's irrelevant.
You bought all the top PC games but dont even remember Delta Force an IP strong enough that they brought it back decades later.
Its true PC is no longer the main sole focus of AAA SP games like it was 20 years ago, just like consoles are no longer the main sole focus of AAA SP games like they were 10 years ago, and SP games are no longer the main sole focus of AAA games like they were 5 years ago.
 
Go ask any European gamer what the biggest games are and you are legit going to get.

League of legend
Counter strike 2
Valorant
Don't count either. Multiplayer games you see.

Rules are it has to be a triple A single player experience, Like Sony offer obviously. And before you say Half Life Alyx, that doesn't count either as its a VR title.
 
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You bought all the top PC games but dont even remember Delta Force an IP strong enough that they brought it back decades later.
Its true PC is no longer the main sole focus of AAA SP games like it was 20 years ago, just like consoles are no longer the main sole focus of AAA SP games like they were 10 years ago, and SP games are no longer the main sole focus of AAA games like they were 5 years ago.
yeah, agreed, that's what i said, no i didn't play the Delta forces back then, it was Doom, Quake, Hexen, Heretic, Blood, Half Life, Unreal, Sin, Daggerfall, the Dark Forces games and Tomb Raider also RTS like Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation, Age Of Empires and Dark Reign etc, there were so many great PC games to play that you were spoilt for choice, i came to Fallout through Bethesda, not the Original game and knew nothing about Fallout until Fallout 3.
 
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yeah, agreed, that's what i said, no i didn't play the Delta forces back then, it was Doom, Quake, Hexen, Heretic, Blood, Half Life, Unreal, Sin, Daggerfall, the Dark Forces games and Tomb Raider also RTS like Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation, Age Of Empires and Dark Reign etc, there were so many great PC games to play that you were spoilt for choice, i came to Fallout Through Bethesda, not the Original game and knew nothing about Fallout until Fallout 3.
There was a big military shooter genre with Delta Force, CoD, Rainbow Six, Battlefield, Medal of Honor etc in that period. Delta Force was one of the early ones - I have fond memories of sniping the single pixel that represented my enemy back in the day.
 
There was a big military shooter genre with Delta Force, CoD, Rainbow Six, Battlefield, Medal of Honor etc in that period. Delta Force was one of the early ones - I have fond memories of sniping the single pixel that represented my enemy back in the day.
Yeah I played Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Pacific Assault, and Cod 1,2 and 4, also great games. not forgetting Return to Castle Wolfenstein as well, I never got into Battlefield and Rainbow Six, but they always had a big following and were popular, FEAR 1 is still my top fps of them all, loved it
 
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The hell you talking about. They just got the GOTY contender BOOBS!!


Alanah DLC when?

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it started gradually then all at once. But I second that it started to happen sometime after Crysis. That was the last hurrah sort to speak or the symbol of it.
 
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Games being on phones and little handhelds are only a threat to consoles. They have no effect on PC at all, you would never want to play a proper PC RTS, or a SIM game o a proper shooter on any of those devices anyway, they have console stick controls.
wait until the phones seamlessly dock and support m/k.

that's the Switch 2 right now. Mobile hardware, docks seamlessly to tv and the controllers have mouse capability in the box. (And supports 3rd party m/k.)
 
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it started gradually then all at once. But I second that it started to happen sometime after Crysis. That was the last hurrah sort to speak or the symbol of it.

Crysis' claim to fame was the graphics, no more no less. I've been PC gaming as my primary gaming system since the 90's... these days the amount of games is the best it's ever been despite my disdain for most crap released these days. That said, I also just finished playing an obscure SOE game called Infantry from 1999 that was remade into FreeInfantry on steam and there is still a playerbase. Can't do that on consoles... I still play UT'99 too and tons of games from the 1990's on a rig that can be built in 2025. Console's backwards compat is useless to me.
 
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