Um, what about Iron Lore or 3D Realms? Both of those PC developers closed down cos they ran out of cash.

In fact, just to stir things up a bit, it was suggested that piracy was to blame for Iron Lore’s closure…

the fact reamins the doesn’t buy console games they are all must pc gamers. Pc gaming is hot right noe and puting publisher to shame and console game devs to shame.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090506005551&newsLang=en

“The worldwide game industry is expected to post revenues of $57 billion in 2009, but Western game publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to make a profit. A DFC Intelligence report shows that even though seven select Western publishers had an average increase in revenue of 50% over the past two years, they had an aggregate net loss, with the loss increasing 42% in 2008. These publishers are finding profitability extremely difficult due to a dysfunctional game market, and they face a wide range of problems, including skyrocketing development costs, platform fragmentation, piracy, used-game sales, and lengthy console transitions. ” qoute from this article

http://news.google.ca/news?um=1&ned=ca&hl=en&q=china+pc+gaming+booming

if you want more links to prove my point I am more than to give them.

Console game devs are going bankuprt!!!!!!

Even a russain pc game dev company made more money than alot of console game devs stalker clear skies sold like 1.7 mill

Pc game devs who were doing fine until the started making console games would scared,cd project,world of goo game devs

Not to mention that they had to discount the crap out of the game because it didn’t sell nearly as well as the retailers thought it would… but that’s not related to this particular discussion.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/04/20/how-pc-gaming-helps-shape-the-future-of-computing/

also i’m a mmo gamer that is why the first games I talked about was mmo’s. However Pc gaming in general is on fire from flash games to indie games. It’s making money hands over fist. It’ss only the console game devs ging bankuprt these days.

Take a look at left for dead,fallout 3,foot ball manger, empire total war

http://pcworld.about.com/od/gaming/4-7-Million-Copies-of-Fallout.htm

In russia,china pc gaming is smoking hot. It’s only consoles game devs that are going abnkupt these days with high production costs.

No more of having a shitty intergrated Intel graphics card that couldnt even run the lowest spec game

Yet your two success stories are both MMO makers.