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?