All I know is that when I got a new PC which is apparently good enough to play Crysis, I went to the store bought Crysis came home, went to install it and an error came up saying the game was missing a sound file. The installation shutdown and no amount of googling was able to help. This has happened a few time's with me with different games and it's what lead me to believe PC gaming is an inconvenience for anyone not savy with the tech.
It also doesn't help that console gaming is catching up with PC gaming in term's of graphic's, it's not there yet, but who know's what could happen in 2 year's. Hardware doesn't seem to matter as much anymore, with talented developer's limited hardware can make fantastic software, as we've already seen.
Steam seem's like the only thing really keeping PC gaming alive, I don't think it will die, but I've seen far to many people turn to consoles instead of the PC in recent year's.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
