Traditionally, major first person shooter titles always made their splash on the PC. Over the last couple years, this trend has changed, with the console versions of titles like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament III actually performing better sales-wise than their PC counterparts. Epic Games’ VP Mark Rein shares his thoughts on this growing trend:

I’m a real fan of the PC, but yes, consoles are definitely stealing a lot of hardcore gamers from the PC. When Call of Duty 4 came out, I heard some of our guys sitting around talking about the great game they’d had last night and I’m like, ‘Hey guys, what server are you playing on? I’d love to come and join you,’ and they said, ‘Just send us a friends request,’ It was at that point I realized they were all playing it on console. Plus, the sales of the console versions are something like ten times the sales of the PC versions.

I can agree with this. Consoles have always been more affordable than a PC. Not to mention consoles nowadays are able to do much more than play games, which could be another reason for the switch.

The Mark Rein interview [The Guardian]

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