Gears of War (the first one now) came onto the PC a year after the release of the Xbox 360 version, while the game was nothing out of this world amazing, it wasn’t bad. Heck we even had some compensation of sorts for the late release with a bunch of new levels that never appeared in the 360 version of the game. It was a pretty nifty deal real and gave us PC gamers a teeny bit of encouragement to buy the game.

However it seems that Gears of War 2 will never appear on the PC according to Cliffy B (he will always be Cliffy B to me) in this TVG interview.

Do you see the Xbox 360 as the main platform as opposed to the PC? During the whole Unreal time it was very much PC focused.

The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips. Here’s the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

So piracy was a main point for you…

Right now, it makes sense for us to focus on Xbox 360 for a number of reasons. Not least PCs with multiple configurations and piracy.

But when the dust has settled, is there any possibility of Gears 2 on PC?

No.

Definitely not?

No.

Wow, seriously this is just crap, I think it was confirmed a while back that it wasn’t coming onto the PC, but to spout out this piracy bullshit is just weak. Why can’t developers be honest with us for once? The game will sell loads more on the 360 than on the PC, mainly due to the nature of the game and Cliff will know that for all those 360 sales a large proportion will purcahse post-release DLC. He will also know that PC gamers won’t stand for that kind of treatment and very few would purchase any DLC even if it appeared on the PC.

I don’t know how he can claim that high-end games are suffering on the PC, didn’t Crysis sell over 1 million copies? Yes back in June it had sold over 1.5 million copies (source) which for a game that boasted extremely high system requirements at launch makes for pretty good reading. If a game like Crysis can sell that many, despite so many claims of mass piracy from Crytek then I don’t see why Gears of War 2 couldn’t achieve a good number of sales. Stop spouting this crap about the PC being a pain in the arse to develop on due to the many different system configurations, Valve have managed to do it, and People Can Fly were able to do it for the original Gears.

Pfft, I just want people like Cliff to acknowledge that with DLC and higher RRP’s that they can make more money off console versions of games like this and that they don’t deem the PC as being worth it. Stop this piracy crap, we all know piracy impacts on PC game sales, but it is overblown and used as a scapegoat. Grow some balls Cliff.

Tags: Gears of War 2, piracy...again

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