The supposed "decline of PC gaming"

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Funny thing, Digital Distrubtion isn't a PC only thing. PC fans screaming Steam/D2D/whatever seem to fail to realise the existence of Xbox Live and the PSN. So while you might complain that your 23% market share doesn't include products purchased via digital distrubution on PC, keep in mind it also doesn't include products purchased digitally on the consoles. That door swings both ways.

You fail to realise that PC gaming isn't dying. It's already dead. At least compared to the behemoth it once was. It's no longer Hollywood, it's Cannes.
It still manages to push out interesting niche games, indy games and MMO's, and pushes the boundary on technological advances. But when it comes to the really big, triple A stuff, the Halo's and Final Fantasies and such, the PC plays second fiddle often getting crappy ports later, if at all.

Example.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/1...re-2-pc-sales/

The boxed PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold around 170,000 units in November, according to Gamasutra’s NPD analysis.

Compared to the 6 million units the game shifted on consoles in one month, that’s a rounding error. Want to know why all those boycotts over feature cuts don’t work? Because nobody bought Modern Warfare 2 on PC.

As I’ve written before, PC gamers only account for a small fraction of Modern Warfare 2 users. It’s just not worth the time, effort and expense for companies like Activision to please such a small fraction of the audience.

(Yes, the NPD only counts sales of boxed product, and many PC gamers do like to download their games. Without the release of download sales numbers, it’s impossible to get a perfect figure.)


So the bad news is that PC gamers can expect their demands to elicit little more than barely-stifled yawns from the people who make mega-hit multiplatform titles: There are just not enough of you to merit special treatment.

The truth hurts. Deal.