DICE General Manager Karl Magnus Troedsson did more than simply downplay the death of PC gaming. He called it "bullshit."
Speaking to ShackNews in an interview at GDC 2011, Troedsson said that Battlefield 3's lead platform is the PC, and that the company had set aside its core gamers a bit too much with the Bad Company games.
“I felt that we had, maybe, set PC aside a bit too much. I’ve said this publicly before, we were very unhappy that we were not able to get a PC version out of Battlefield: Bad Company. It was down to sheer manpower, or lack thereof. We felt that we couldn’t just bring out the Frostbite engine, and bring the game to consoles, and get the PC version out. We just failed there," he admitted.
“It’s something that we regret but it was a pure fact that we were faced upon.
“We fixed that with Bad Company 2. Now it’s Battlefield 3 and we thought, ‘Now it’s time to give some extra love to the PC community.’ But also, we strongly believe in PC gaming. Two years ago, maybe one year ago, people talked about ‘the decline of PC gaming.’ Or ‘the death of PC gaming.’ These kind of words were thrown around and, honestly, that’s bullshit.
“PC gamers are probably the most hardcore players we have out there. Sure, online gameplay has been on the rise on the Xbox 360 and PS3. There are a lot of hardcore online players there too. But on PC? That’s our core audience.”
Battlefield 3 is bound for the PS3, PC and 360 platforms this fall. PC gamers will be able to compete online in 64-player games while consoles will be limited to 32.
via VG247