I can remember when EA made GREAT PC sports games, especially basketball games.

Jordan vs Bird 1 on 1,
Lakers vs Celtics,
NBA Live 95 (at the time, this was a fucking brilliant game, even NBA Jam wasn't as good).

They had some good soccer, cricket, AFL (yes, I'm Australian) and ice hockey games too, but the quality took a nose dive in the late 90s and PC gamers stopped playing them. EA needed a new place to dump their shit where people didn't know how bad it had gotten and that was the consoles.