From VG24/7.

PC gaming is alive and well. In fact, it’s expected to be worth $35 billion by 2018.

According to game-business group Open Gaming Alliance, the PC gaming industry is expected to grow beyond its current $26 billion worth and to a massive $35 billion by the year 2018.

The information is based on data collected by research firm DFC Intelligence.

The two main reasons for this expected growth are the rise of free-to-play games and the continued growth of the eSports scene, according to the study.

Interestingly, according to the study, console gaming will reach its peak in 2018, with over $30 billion, then begin to decline on the following year. Mobile platforms will continue their growth as they overshadow handhelds, which are expected to continue declining.

“In past years much of the growth in PC games has been due to adoption of the platform in Asia. Now we are estimating a potential 86 million PC gamers outside Asia that we have targeted as market growth drivers,” DFC analyst David Cole toldVentureBeat.

“These are the consumers that are driving spending not just on software, but also on PC hardware, as they buy expensive equipment to play, view, and record games.”

Woah.
They predict that the handheld market will shrink that much?

I am thinking to come back into PC gaming. They reason I became console only gamer (again) is because anime games and console exclusive games. While my current PS4 can satisfy my exclusive needs a PC can allow me to play relatively cheap rate and all PC games.

Holy shit look at the projected handheld decline. PC, consoles and mobile will be in rude health if that's true but fuck me that would be the death of handhelds.

I'll be happy to add PC to my Playstation and Nintendo cycle if I can ever afford it. Gotta have those exclusives though.

I hope I can predict the future like these people when I grow up.

I doubt consoles will reach a peak and slow in sales, pc gaming will maybe increase dueto asia but you will see a lot more of free to play titles on pc.

Well, they are surely the two most notable things happening in gaming on a macroscopic scale, but I guess in this particular case the OP was referring to the contrast between reality and perception about PC gaming, that, although also at cost of huge changes through the years, is bigger than ever and, even not as strongly as in its golden age, still growing, despite having been given up for dead endless times.
Just like when I was doing the military service, that I was coming back alive from the shooting range wasn't a particularly interesting news, but it became after some joker spread the rumour I killed myself and the lieutenant failing to throw a hand grenade and dropping it on my feet.   

Thank You Lord Gaben for making the PC platform even more epic than it already was!