And when talking about "pc gaming declining In early 2000's due to piracy" a complete new genre was rising meteorically by that time, MMORPGs. This genre alone made PCs have something consoles couldn't offer until ps2/gc/Xbox, even so, mmos on consoles weren't a fraction of the behemoth they were on pc.
EDIT: OK, mmos already existed before, but early 2000's were when home internet access was really on the rise.