how can people just ignore all the pc exclusives? And games made by companies who still have a passion for the pc?
In the old days you had nintendo and sega, two companies who had very little third party support compared to today and almost none from north america. Then sony came around and had everyone making games for them, games started to go multiplat more often even then. Then microsoft came into the console market, and made most big budget titles go multiplatform.
Now its a matter of preference, and of course every platform has exclusives and perks, but Im afraid none can really match the pc.

Now Ill admit, pc exclusives dont have appeal to everyone... especially not kids and pre-teens. And oh yeah, in the old days you didnt have to upgrade every year to keep gaming, that started around 2004 and died around 2007 with crysis.

You just said better than any console, even though in the very link you posted it states that ps3 had over 7 times the sales than steam. Huh? It seems very 'healthy' to me, as well as 360 right behind it. Add in PC retail sales and it still below every single console sales. So what was your point again? And btw I am a huge pc fan playing shogun 2, crysis 2 and dragon age 2 all on my pc right now. I just hate when people try and justify the changing market of pc, it has changed, and to be honest, not for the better.

@Sitris

Where does it say PS3 software sales 7 times that of Steam?

That would put PS3 software sales at 7billion usd. I read the entire article i wonder where you are pulling that figure from.

Lastly Its not just Steam thats PC gaming. Add in the MMO market. Wow alone revenues at 1billion usd a year.

"Better than any console.."

Lolz..Yea right...

One thing i give devs though, they are starting to pay PC more attention now that consoles are starting to age but once the next gen of consoles begin, It starts all over...

@imvix
World Software in 2010 Revenue (USD, Millions) Units (Millions)
Playstation 3 (Retail) $7,293 147
Xbox 360 (Retail) $7,242 150
Wii (Retail) $6,830 186
PC (Retail) $5,000 n/a
Steam (PC DD) $910 85
Playstation 2 (Retail) $756 19
Downloadable Content X360 / PS3 $300 n/a
Non-Steam Digital Download PC $250 n/a
Xbox Live Arcade (DD) $135 17
Playstation Network (DD) $90 10
WiiWare & Virtual Console (DD) $86 12

Do you read the stuff you post?? +bubs sitris

As i re-read it this is Vgchartz data as well, so its anyone's guess how reliable the info is..but off this data alone PC falls short of all 3 consoles....again in this data

@disagreers
7,293 * 1,000,000 = 7,293,000,000 = 360 or Ps3 has 7 times steam's software sales, its simple math....

I would like to see where you are getting this crap? Console gaming is in a nose drive? With the Wii Ps3 360 and not to mention ps2 that still sales very well to this day. I think you are just making stuff up to say it.

Console gaming is not die, anyone ho thinks that is crazy. Steam was estimated a a billion dollars, that's good i love pc gaming, but Grand theft auto 4 made over 200 million dollars in the fist month... And that is one game alone. Not to mention hardware sales, and countless other games! You my friend are in denial!

@Rainstorm

When we consider DD sales are more profitable. it goes a bit like this:

PC
Retail 5,000 million usd
Steam 910 Million usd
otherDD 250 Million usd
Total 6160 million usd

MMO market is still unaccounted, which itself is huge.

PS3

Retail sales 7,293 million usd
DD 90 million usd
Total 7,384 million usd

Now notice how PC sales alot more DD then PS3. Which means that part of PC sales are much more profitable then PS3. Also MMO sales are still not considered in the equation. Once that goes through i would think PC is easily ahead of the PS3 or any console for that matter.

@ranshak

With MMOs added yes it is possible, but my entire statement is based off of the info in the article imvix posted...and a reply to imvix that PS3 and 360 has 7 times the sales of steam. Using that link as proof of PC dominance over consoles is plain and simply wrong.

To question consoles' profitability is ridiculous, thats why most of the major PC devs started making games on consoles.Before this gen the PC ports to console were either non-existent or very horribly done. Now for most games consoles are the main focus, then port to PC

But im glad you PC guys are seeing a resurgance of PC focused games, now that this gen of consoles are late in their life cycles.

@rainstorm

i think you need to reread Imvix's initial post, he clearly mentioned Steam, Retail and MMOs. Not just Steam.

"Steam was estimated near a billion usd, which is a lot of sales for a digital platform, add in the rest of the DD services, MMOs and retail and PC is actually very healthy."

So completely ignore the statement i replied to at 4.1.5, or the other claims in the initial comment (like" Console gaming sales on the other hand have taken a nose dive") , or the fact no MMO financial data was given this entire conversation including in the link....SMH...Assuming the facts is soooo much better /S

Sales figures isnt even my thing, but if you claim something have proof that backs your claim, not refutes it.

Maybe you should re-read my comments, but really whats the point, cant have a gaming conversation on the net without butthurt fans spamming the disagree button without any addition to the conversation.

At least you reply, kudos to that Ranshak

I have Vista x64 Home Premium and a GeForce GTX 460. I have been playing Dragon Age 2 on very high setting so I can tell you that DX11 is compatible with Vista not just WIN.7.