The Screw PC Crew

Beyond an excellent pre-emptive counter-example in Piranha Bytes’ forthcoming, PC-first Risen (thanks Richard), this year has been a veritable desert of simultaneous, cross-platform launches – what begun in 2008 in the form of GTAIV and Mass Effect continues full steam ahead this year; for instance, over the past few weeks, we’ve learned of PC delays for Borderlands and Assassin’s Creed II. Below, you can find a list of PC games delayed and/or intentionally scheduled after their console counterparts (with EU market launch dates for consoles and the PC, respectively):

Crimes Against Humanity

  • Alan Wake
    • Spring 2010 – TBA?
  • Battlefield 1943
    • July 8, 2009 – Q1 2010
  • Braid
    • August 6, 2008 – April 10, 2009
  • The Force Unleashed
    • September 19, 2008 – Q4 2009
  • Resident Evil 5
    • March 13, 2009 – September 18, 2009

Major Offences

  • Assassin’s Creed II
    • 20th November, 2009 – Q1 2010
  • Colin McRae: Dirt 2
    • 10 September 2009 – December 2009
  • Mirror’s Edge
    • November 14, 2008 – January 16, 2009
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla
    • June 5, 2009 – September 18, 2009
  • Street Fighter IV
    • February 20, 2009 – July 3, 2009

Technical Oversights

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
    • August 28, 2009 – September 18, 2009
  • Borderlands
    • October 23, 2009 – October 30, 2009
  • Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X
    • March 6, 2009 – March 17, 2009

Have you gotten used to the idea of the PC version always arriving late?

2 thoughts on “The Screw PC Crew

  1. One word: 0-day PC piracy. Ok, that’s three words, but yeah. Maybe a list of release dates and delays for PC and consoles side by side?

  2. I have to agree with you on the side-by-side comparison. Hopefully the dates are still readable enough, but not using a tabular method for the comparison was a wasted opportunity for us!

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