I admire Steve's patience. PR isn't giving us fluff here, they're making a direct statement. The direct statement is in itself very depressing to hear, because the fact that American PR is 100% sure-fire certain that there is absolutely zero chance of PC versions happening speaks to a level of confidence that states that the climate for such a port or dev to happen doesn't exist at all, which is much worse than being given an ambiguous answer.
Yet not for the right reason.
I am used to this for niche games. Happens most often when the topic of sexuality comes up. Valkyria threads get 3 pages now, but they get 30 pages when sexuality wagon-circling starts. Same for Ys. *_*
The hell went on in this thread while I was gone? Shit people, it either doesn't exist or they don't want to/can't announce it yet. End of story. There's a whole lot of Weird going on in here now.
While we're on the subject concerning 1st Parties paying for things though...
Anyone here also find it pathetic how Japanese 3rd Parties like Sega, SE, and Capcom are in a position where they're relying on 1st Party handouts for basically everything now? Like seriously these companies are striking me as bad investments right now with how they're all so brazenly demonstrating a lack of financial independence. Capcom significantly more than the others since literally everything they do now that isn't a Remaster or Resident Evil is tied to 1st Party money.
Capcom's been relying on 1st party handouts for a long time. Even in their early history they always approached the console guys for deals. They pissed off a lot of people for many years. Funnily enough despite throwing themselves into console politics over and over again their overall historical platform support is actually really really good. I can't speak for SE but Sega's console output and platform support compared to Capcom is kind of sad after Sega did the shotgun approach with their 3rd party games after the Dreamcast imploded.
EDIT: I will say Capcom has really been stalling this generation, relying heavily on remasters and such. But at least these remasters are hitting all platforms.