Capps: Piracy made Epic switch focus to consoles

Epic Games first made a name for itself as a PC developer. Nowadays, though, the developer has shifted its focus onto consoles. According to Epic president Mike Capps, piracy made them do it.

Epic Games first made a name for itself as a PC developer. Nowadays, though, the developer has shifted its focus onto consoles. According to Epic president Mike Capps, piracy made them do it.

Capps recently told Edge, “If you walked into [Epic’s Offices] six years ago, Epic was a PC company. We did one PS2 launch title, and everything else was PC. And now, people are saying ‘Why do you hate the PC? You’re a console-only company.’”

“And guess what?” he continued, “It’s because the money’s on console.”

He further explained, “We still do PC, we still love the PC, but we already saw the impact of piracy: it killed a lot of great independent developers and completely changed our business model.”

Via [TheSixthAxis]