Is PC ONLY a viable business option?

[Thomas]

(20-02-2011 04:14 PM)Rodney Wrote:  Does anyone know if we made some PC ONLY games would they stand a chance of making any/good money?

I'm guessing the PC has the biggest amount of indie games released every year but it must also have the biggest user base? I'm wondering how many of these indie games make profit?

It would probably be the cheapest option to develop for but it lacks a direct market like istore, xboxlive & ovi although it does have that steam site which seems popular?

I think it would be genre specific. If you ever go into a game shop and look at the vast majority of games in the PC section, it appears to be flight simulators, FPS and RTS in more or less that order... I guess you also have to ask yourself are those the genres of games you would feel happy working in?

Personally i would, but i dont want to rule out X box 360/PS3 in the future.