It is supposed to compete with piracy by making legit games affordable to those that normally are going to pirate no matter what the price of a game costs. By making it convenient peoploe will just buy stufff instead of risk getting viruses from russian and chinese hackers. Cheap legit official versions helps to encourage sale of legit software over the pirated version downloaded from your pirate servers.
But it also has the side effect of making pc gamers act more entitled to have everything for free which is where all these SJWs have come about in recent years whining about having to work for money to buy games.
I see PC gamers as just like mobile gamers that won't buy premium quality content because they are used to paying so little. Mario Run's failure is an example of this.
But it's a small price to pay to keep the pc market alive. But remember when you expect to have everything for free companies like CD Projekt Red have less investment to work with for the next game they make which is why they went with console for Witcher 3 as the base platform.
I think most on this forum know this but do not want to fight you on these truths because they are afraid you will come to their house and beat them up. Maybe you are violent like general cyberfunk or something.
Don't fear candy arse. Speak your mind. Just accept the truth. PC gamers = mobile gamers with better controllers.
Steam will never kill consoles. The only way that wold work is if the third parties start to realise they can make more money doing mobile phone games than big budget triple A games and I don't see nintendo ever stopping making mario and zelda and smash bros and other games. It's not going to be like the death of the arcade biz. If I am wrong I will admit it but I see no evidence of nintendo not outliving steam since they've been around a LOT longer than valve ever has. But you are the guy that thought the internet didn't exist before the 90s so.....
As long as nintendo actually profit they can sustain their existence. Mobile market is eating into console one. It's up to nintendo to save the future generations of children gamers from playing poor quality games that have no depth to them by advertising their games on the mobile platform so they will buy nintendo products with the seal of quality on them. PC gamers need to understand that without us, you might not get those console ports since there would be no consoles to fund those games in the first place. You could argue that if console didn't exist, then the third parties would make more pc games, but then they'd probably make less profit too because piracy is too easy on pc compared to closed platforms.
PC is a great platform to test for original ideas but it's not as good as closed platform to profit imo. In the future I think console will probably unite into one big console like 3DO after MS quits doing the gaming thing and if Scorpio fails. (no garuantee that it's an automatic win just because it's the most powerful machine. The original xbox had the most power but japanese exclusives were enough to keep playstation 2 around. Remember games like Persona 4 came from this machine)
My view is this:
As long as Xbox brand is weak in japan, then a hardcore gamers will always require at minimum two console platforms to obtain western titles, and japanese titles if they care about getting both types of games. PC? only worth buying if you like free to play games, or the rare pc exclusive gmae. (but lot of big pc franchises get ported to consoloe at some point anyway) Lot of pc guys are usually the type that are technology savvy people that like to have control over all the settings and access to mods to customise things. But the average joe wants a box that just works by pushing a button and playing a game while they relax on the couch. There will ALWAYS be the lazy joe.
