Why PC Gaming is Surging

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areason said:

Consoles will never have an answer to rts games and mobas. And services like psn/xbl will never match the great deals on steam. 

Pretty much this.

Over the years we have had: StarCraft, Command and Conquer, Halo, Supreme Commander all try the RTS genre. - All have flopped relative to the numbers the PC pulls just for RTS.

Simply put, you can't do high levels of APM and multi-tasking on a limited controller pad, nor can consoles handle Thousands of units on screen with complex A.I due to their CPU's being woefully inadequate, hence why you won't see Rome 2 or Shogun 2 like-games on console.
StarCraft 1 has probably sold almost 10 million copies, I would be surprised if it sold a million copies on the Nintendo 64 for instance.

Other Niche' genre's like Turn-based Strategy seems like it's out of the realm of consoles too, even though the likes of Heroes of Might and Magic and Civilization do well on PC.