There's still tons of money to be made off PC games. They may not sell as much in terms of pure volume, but the fact that the profit margins per game sold on Steam/D2D/Impulse/etc are 2-4x higher than at retail means that you can still make a shit-ton of money off your game.

So-called "consolization" is a joke. It's like arcade gamers getting mad that their precious games are being made for consoles.

"Consolization" has been around since the days of the NES, and PC wasn't dying then. If "consolization" is the excuse that PC is dying now, that simply does not make sense.

Get outta here with the NO money on the PC crap. Minecraft sold 2 million units in it's Beta format with NO Commercials No publisher and the Dev gets all the money. Please take a business class.

PC= NO Commercials. No licensing Fees. Many Devs make games from their own budgets therefore no Loans from Publishers. Sure a few big name titles Starcraft/WOW have commercials but WOW makes $30 to $80 million a month so they can afford it.

so in turn a high budget PC game selling 2 million copies generate $ 100 million in cash. This is split between Steam/Dev for Digital copies or Publisher/Dev/Store for retail copies. The publishers pays for the retail copies to be made and anything over 90k retail sold is profit.
Two Worlds II has quietly sold 2 million on the PC while the console versions have bricked. TW3 will be made because of good PC sales.

Consoles = Huge advertising budgets and commercials are not free. if you see a game commercial during prime time programming then their advertisement budget was $150 million. Publisher front Devs the cash to make games and that has to be paid back. Retailers may get $10 to $15 per game out of that $60 bucks. Licensing fees to M$/Sony have to be paid so therefore a high budget game made on both the 360 and PS3 needs to do 4 million to break even and see a good profit.

Crysis 2, Homefront, Bulletstorm are ALL 1.5 million or lower across 3 platforms with weekly sales declining rapidly. Dead Space 2 just broke 2 million. These games had huge add campaigns and Crysis 2 had an expensive DEv time due to new engine and these games so far are FINANCIAL failures.

It's easier to make money on the PC but the consoles do have those 2 or 3 games that sale 15 million copies. COD, GTA, and Halo and GT over 5 million every time out are the only exceptions while most Devs/publishers see those numbers, chase them and FAIL.

anyway a MMO with 500K users paying $10 is 50 million a month not including micro-transactions which bring in more cash.

That's an excuse, not a reason.

Piracy was at its worst before consoles and PCs were even comparable, at the beginning of the last generation of consoles.

Devs aren't "falling back on consoles". Consoles caught up to devs. There aren't many groups of people who have the technical, artistic and financial prowess to create a game that truly could not be realized on console.

Those who have claimed they can, have or would have been full of shit every time.

The excuse is the reason.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse