If making PC games is that much easier, why do devs even bother with consoles

Money as console gamers spend more money over time. Less sales and more controlled pricing

PC players are a shitty to deal with, they pirate your games and complaing about their meme 1000:4 resolution not being supported.

With a console the specs are set in stone, not as much as they used to be but much more so than PCs ever will.

if its so easy to make games on pc why is the optimization so ass huh

The PS4 and Xbox One were consoles with relatively modern at the time GPUs tied to absolutely abhorrent low end tablet-tier CPUs. That made developing games difficult on them and also limited the types of games they could make (which is one reason why that gen saw gameplay advance very little).

I was hoping that the new consoles would mark a clean break from that as they have good CPUs, but everyone has this dogged determination to keep putting their games on last gen hardware.

>you are broke
>gaming pc costs $2000+
choose one

They can’t make enough new hardware to meet demand, probably won’t be until next year that they catch up.

>but everyone has this dogged determination to keep putting their games on last gen hardware
probably because most people can't even get the new consoles

It's, basically, true.

The console market is bigger for Japan

Also This

Lol

Why not both?