skeet70

Your personal opinion is that the series went downhill with Oblivion, but that is not at all a dominant view. A game series whose design changes over time while including consoles does not mean all change can attributed to consoles. That's really just the natural evolution of a series. The implication that you are making that the inclusion of consoles ruins games is not backed up by anything, the fact that Skyrim is widely regarded as being the best of the series so far (no matter the platform), and that it's remained for months now one of the top 10 games played on Steam counter your argument that it was ruined for PC gamers. Why does everyone feel the need to be exclusive? I love PE, and I would like for as many gamers who want to enjoy it to be able to. Why do you feel like it will somehow detract from your experience to simply know that someone else is also enjoying it from their couch? Regardless of if you dislike consoles, it's your personal choice not to own one, and a post-release port won't affect your PC enjoyment of the game in ANY way. It may even increase it because you'll be sharing the experience with more people. TL;DR: Realize people are different. Get over your need to deny others experiences you enjoy.

This is an incredibly off base analogy. Everyone in this thread explicitly against a console port (not including those who don't mind if it happens after release) seems to be operating under the assumption that console gamers are somehow inherently different gamers with drastically different tastes. This simply isn't true. On admittedly anecdotal evidence, I'm the president of a 200+ member gaming club at my college campus. Of those maybe 100 of them are exclusively PC gamers, 75 play on both console and PC, and 25 play exclusively consoles. The preferences of those who play exclusively on consoles are dictated by the console market, but most would love to see something like PE on console. Someone above made the argument that console gamers were responsible for the dumbing down from DA:O to DA2 and ME1 to ME2. That is also not true. Everyone who played DAO on console loved it, and hated DA2 (even on console), just like PC gamers. DA2 was not a reflection of console gamers effect on the franchise. If anything, look at The Elder Scrolls popularity as an example of console gamers responding to good RPGs in the same way that PC gamers do. Back to your analogy. It would be more accurate to say that you read fantasy, and other people prefer other genres. You happen to read your fantasy novels in paperback from, and you love it. Other people with e-readers also love fantasy, and they happen to read them on their e-readers. The recognition of a good book or your preference for genres doesn't suddenly shift solely because you're using a different medium to consume the subject matter. You both still equally recognize a good book (and crave more of them) no matter what platform you use to read it. With consoles now having the same architecture as PC and PE being a real-time with pause game at it's core, as well as being developed with Unity (which will/does support PS4/Xbox One), there really isn't anything stopping them from porting the game. If there isn't controller support it would require very minimal investment in time from them. If they chose to include controller support it still wouldn't be too bad, since PE is RTWP the complexity can be easily mitigated on a controller (DAO was a dream in this regard). Personally I would prefer that they don't port it to consoles until after release, but I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't then port it if they choose.