By the time Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 came out, shooters were very common on consoles. There were many more console shooters apart from Halo. The fact tha

By the time Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 came out, shooters were very common on consoles. There were many more console shooters apart from Halo. The fact that we see hardly any PC-exclusive AAA shooters anymore, but did back then, calls for an explanation. And it's not just shooters. In general there are few AAA games nowadays that are PC-exclusive or mainly targeted at PCs and only ported to consoles. The situation was very different in 2004.