Wild Tangent CEO Thinks PC Gaming RuleZ

Alex St. John, founder and CEO of Wild Tangent, has a good-natured bone to pick with Epic's Tim Sweeney.

And so the shame of it is, the PC's a fantastic gaming platform, superior to anything anybody's every imagined, superior to every console, and Microsoft and Intel put crap in the PC that make it not so good. And so if you see a PC that is not denuded by things interfering with it by Microsoft and Intel, in many cases like an Intel crappy graphics chip, or a bloated Vista operating system, it's a fantastic gaming platform. And the shame is, if the low end of the PC market, the mass market PCs that everybody buys did not come with these crappy graphics chips on them and was not burdened with a fat OS, that the PC would be a larger contiguous gaming platform than all the next-generation consoles combined, probably would be clearly superior; the PC is the home of the most profitable game in history generating more revenue than the top 10 console games combined-that's World of Warcraft generating a 1.2 billion dollars a year in revenue, that's a pure PC game.

So it is clear that PC gaming absolutely killed [the market] in terms of revenue, killed it in terms of consumer usage-the average console gamer, according to Powers Associates, spends more time playing PC games than console games.

He's got a lot more to say on the bright future in PC gaming so why not check it out?