Lemme chime in on this one before I disapear again. I want to go back to the original topic.
PC gaming is not dead. There are new games coming out for PC that you can't get on a console. The only reason you think PC gaming is dying is because there are games on XBox and Wii coming out that you want. But nothing really has changed. Lets review a little (generalized and over simplified) PC gaming history:
When IBM PCs had CGA graphics console kids had 16 colors on their nintendo. When PCs had 16 colors the sega genesis had 32. For a while if you wanted arcade quality games, consoles were the only place to go.
Then PCs pulled ahead with two major advancements: 256 color and mouse control. Soon 16 million colors and 3D full 3D games (quake) took point and PC gaming became a buzzword. Oh sure, StarCraft was ported to the N64, but have you ever actually played it? And sure, doom and quake made it on to numerious consoles years after PC gamers had unlocked all their secrets. For a while it was accepted that if you were a PC gamer you had the superior system. Consoles were for those who couldn't afford a graphics card.
However, that started changing with James Bond on the N64. Finally FPS gaming was successfully brought to a console. It was playable, it was fun, and it wasn't available on PC. But that was okay. PCs still had RTS and there was nothing any console could do to take that from us.
Unfortunatly there was nothing any console needed to do. RTSs had their run and now they're not that great. They have their fan base I suppose, but as a commercially viable genre they've kinda faded. Halo then solidified the console as a FPS system and consoles pulled ahead again.
PCs still have MMORPGs, like 'em or not, they are a financially viable medium for commercial success in PC games. Will PCs ever pull ahead again? Probably. Maybe not. Who knows. But PC gaming isn't dying because it can never die. It's position right now is weak, but so what? It's not like I have any time to play games any more anyways.
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