Its good that PCs are slowly fading out after their golden era ended in 2010, the gaming industry is ready for the future

What are the greatest PC games everyone talks about?

Portal (2007), Starcraft (1998), Fallout New Vegas (2010), Counter Strike (2000), Half-Life 2 (2004), Baldurs Gate 2 (2000), Age of Empires 2 (1999)

In the 1990-2010 era, PCs were very popular and the biggest games were being developed for it. It was a golden era.

Since 2010, which big PC exclusives have come out? None. The PC market these days relies on the same old online games that have been played for 15 years. It relies heavily on indie games like the newly released Remnant From The Ashes or Mordhau. It relies on Early Access games, an oversaturated market flooded with mediocre one-shot indie games that just got Steam Greenlighted.

The PC gamer demographic aged with the platform. Most PC gamers are now 30-40 years old and are nostalgic about their good old RTS and Isometric RPG games.

But who is the future of the world? Who is going to influence the next 20-30 years of the games industry with their purchasing decisions? That's right - kids and teenagers. I recently went to pick my nephew up from school and he was talking to some of his classmates about video games. I asked them where they all played on, and they looked at me like it was some weird question and said "Playstation of course, duh"

Sony is heavily investing into studios to produce some of the best and biggest AAA singleplayer experiences on the market today. This is where the future lies. Nothing comparable has been released on PC the past years. GOTYs 2013, 2017 and 2018 were console exclusives. All GOTYs in between were also released on consoles. Not a single PC exclusive anymore, unlike in the golden era 1990-2010.

The gaming industry is shifting massively and the next generation of consoles will only solidify that, after the PS4 has just hit 100 million sold units.

As a comparison, the latest Assassins Creed game has sold 72% of its units on PS4, and only 2% of its units on PC.

Far Cry 5 has sold 3.95 million units on PS4, and only 1 million on PC.

The games industry is ready to move on.