It would be nice if gaming moved towards a open platform (the PC) as opposed to closed platforms (consoles). That way you wouldn't have to have all of these devices lying around so that you can play the exclusives. But so as long as certain PC game developers (ie. Crytek) insist on releasing PC games that require high specs and PC gaming remains relatively user-unfriendly, that is NEVER going to happen. This is why the Blizzard games (which have relatively modest spec requirements) are mega popular. Whereas companies like Crytek are forced to port PC games over to game consoles in order to become mainstream and make the big dollars. Blizzard has a great business model going for them. Before PC game developers whine about how PC is dying and how they need to go to consoles in order to make money, maybe they should pay more attention to what Blizzard is doing.
Another thing to consider is that PC gaming is not very popular in Japan except for the visual novels, dating sims, erotic games, MMOs and a few exceptions here and there. And a significant portion of the console games out there were created by Japanese developers. So Japan is a very important part of the picture. Though not as relevant as they used to be.
