It’s been rumoured for a long time that the PC gaming industry could be in decline, and piracy is often touted as the probable culprit. Well, it seems the hushed mumblings were pretty accurate, as Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said so this week in an interview with PC Play:

“I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy… PC gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more,”

Crytek, if you didn’t already know, were behind last year’s PC blockbuster and technical marvel, Crysis. He goes on to say that, for their own sake, they’ll be moving into the console business where piracy is less of an issue, and that PC exclusives are probably a thing of the past – at Crytek, anyway:

“It was a big lesson for us and I believe we won’t have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.

Have thieving PC gamers finally managed to shoot themselves in the foot? Well, I certainly don’t think that the industry will disappear overnight, but I’m sure there’s an important lesson to learn from all this.

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