Gamasutra has an interesting Q&A with Valve Software's Doug Lombardi and Jason Holtman which basically goes over currently hot but recurring topic 'Is PC Gaming Dead?'. The general gist of it is that perhaps the PC isn't doing as badly as some would have us believe.

He continues, "If you took Steam, Peggle, PopCap, WoW and mixed it with NPD numbers, the world looks a lot different. All of a sudden, it looks like PC's probably the biggest one, and year over year, the fastest-growing."

It's well worth a read, this following bit tweaked my ears for sure.

Recalls Lombardi, "I can remember this story coming around in the mid '90s... and then 3D accelerator came out, and Carmack released that patch for GL Quake, and everybody shut up, because all of a sudden PlayStation looked like crap. There's a big shift about to come in the post-GPU space... all of a sudden PC will leapfrog what's going on on the consoles, in many other ways besides graphics."

I wonder to what he is referring?