If you guys don't know why western console gaming has become so popular, its quite easy. Western devs who were console only were struggling to understand out to make better games than the Japanese. Microsoft brought in the PC devs to the console realm to make their lineup look more appealing. Bethesda and Epic, Bioware, Valve and Microsoft purchased Lionhead and Bungie whom were also PC devs whom finally had a reason to be on consoles full time while still making multiplats for PC instead of just part time. Rockstar was one of the untouchable western console devs during that time. As time went on the console realms profitability eclipsed PC gaming outside of Blizzard.
Remember before the Xbox came out.. PC gaming was still extremely strong. Having the top PC devs making console games made console gaming stronger and made Japanese development seem sad in the process.
Think about it.
