Yeah, I've never even played UT3, so idk what it's like on console vs PC, just speaking in general terms that the majority of people are switching to consoles, thus killing PC gaming and thus continuing to kill UT.
The problem is not so much that gamers are switching from PC to Consoles, not many are actually, whilst many PC gamers have also adopted a Console since thease new generation ones came about, that doesen't mean they have thrown their PC away, and ofcourse, many casual gamers have bought consoles because they are cheaper (but before this, they where non-gamers usually, so thats no loss on the PC side).
So on it's own, the Consoles becomming more popular is not really what's killing PC gaming, as most of us still own our gaming rigs and would still desire to play PC games on them, the two could coexist just fine as they have in the past.
The real problem is that the game developers have turned their back on the PC, and have either gone Console exclusive with their titles, or are churning out "multi-platform" titles that are, in all honestly, Console games you can also play on a PC, but then, if you could play it on the cheaper Console, why should new gamers spend the money on a PC? and it's not like the PC ports are any great improvement over the Console versions, infact it's usually the opposite, the PC version often has DRM and bad support, their controls, interfaces and gameplay-balance where designed around a Gamepad, so they feel odly out of place with a keyboard and mouse, and many of them are quite buggy on many rigs because they wheren't ported propperly.
The real thing that's killing PC gaming is.. why do it? where are the PC games? if the vast, vast majority of games released are also avalible on the cheaper consoles, where they don't feel like a platform port, then why bother with them on the PC? why even get a gaming rig?
The demand is there, but the supply is not, the PC has precious few exclusive titles left, and they seem to get even fewer every year.. mostly, many of us keep at the PC because we prefer a mouse over a thumbstick, we like mods, perks like LAN play and dedicated servers, but thouse things are also falling by the wayside now, more and more tiles drop that sort of support, or parts of it from their PC ports now, so the few reasons left to play on the PC are just getting more and more endangered.
And the industry seems willfully oblivious to the fact, they keep saying "the PC is dying and we don't get it".. well maybe if you made some damned games for it, it would stand a chance? how the hell is a gaming platform supposed to survive without games? or, if allmost all its games are also avalible on a cheaper platform? and the ports you make have rubbish DRM and we often don't get the same expansions packs and DLC?
Blimey, they have done allmost anything they could to kill the PC, and they wonder why it's slowly bleeding out on the sidewalk?
Make some damned games, stop doing rubbish ports, and stop treating us like Ex-Cons, then maybe things would change.
That turned out to be a bit of a rant.. ohh well, enjoy!
Grobut, very good statement and I agree.