Quote Originally Posted by crash5s View Post
It's not piracy, it's profit. The PC is not nearly as profitable as it once was, and development costs are going through the roof. The install base of consoles is much higher than the install base of gaming capable PCs. And with the PC's being sold shifting more and more to laptops and small desktops, which you couldn't even add a decent GPU to if you wanted to, the market is only shrinking more and more when it comes to high end AAA titles.
Compared to how much it costs to develop the complete game building for PC and then scale back probably only adds a few million to the overall cost (way less than they would make). Visuals can easily be scaled back, its not so easy to get added after the fact.