...complete nonsense.

Is there someone out there actually thinking that PC gaming will literally die anytime soon?

"But the tablets!!!!"

The tablets lack the interface necessary to actually play a lot of PC games in any sort of form. There's just so much one can do with the touchscreen before going back to classic input methods.

"But MOBILE GAMING!!!"

Can someone honestly tell me that Angry Birds will hold the same sort of long lasting appeal such as Starcraft? Yeah, different genres, but so are the machines running them.

I keep seeing some people claiming high and mighty that the PC is dying or was dying before Steam. I think that before Digital Distribution really took off there was a certain lull in the release of PC games, but never an actual danger of the platform going extinct.

If tablets do become a central part of a home for media use and social media use, it doesn't mean the PC will go the way of the Dodo as many people seem to have engraved in their mind...which is normal, as it has always happened when something new came aboard.

"Ah, the cinema. Books and theater will be things of the past."...that's partly true, but it's due rather to rampant stupidity.

"Ah, TV! The cinema and radio will be things of the past!"...nope.

"Ah, the INTERNET! Tv will be a thing of the past!"...again, nope.

What say you, VGChartzers? Do you ever thing the lovely home computer will go down the drain? Tablets are our future indeed? Or Google glasses?

Ah, and don't bring in graphics. I know that's usually the go-to comment for why the PC will endure, but great games have lived on for decades without mind shattering graphical provess. Outside the box is the name of the game here.

But the tablets!!!
But MOBILE GAMING!!!

I think there will be a decline in console gaming, but the PC will always survive even if that declines too

But I am enjoying the current output of PC games at the moment, Company of Heroes 2 and Rome 2 are some of my most anticipated games of this year

If we ever see a decline in gaming it will be in the console department. The PC is getting a lot of popularity at the moment and it will probably keep rising. Even in my small country I already know tons of people who no longer play on their consoles in favor of the PC. If this pattern it's the same in other countries I can't even imagine the number of people who are doing the same thing.

Most of the people who say things like "X market is dying" don't usually know anything about that market, so I rarely pay attention to them.

 They also tend to be people who don't understand that share reduction from market expansion does not mean that one segment is taking over another, but instead that new customers are being added. My niece plays games on her iPhone but would never, ever have been a customer for any PC games, outside perhaps Farmville or such. Last I saw, she was collecting frogs. People like her now count as 'gamers', though they are added customers, not customers lost from the PC category. Some people will never understand the distinction.

Agree with all your points. PC gaming is teh Future now Believe!

On an off topic note: IM EXCITED FOR STARCRAFT 2 HEART OF THE SWARM!!!! PC gaming in action!

Yep.  People like to talk about PC's graphical mastery, but the reverse is also it's strength.

It's gets the largest amount of fun ugly games per year, by far.

PC gaming cant die, i just bought a PC

PC gaming has been dying since around 1990, that's when it started.

Um...it wasn't on the decline in 1990, but it has been on the decline since the late 1990's. 

PC Gaming needs to solve several problems before PC gaming comes back.  Microsoft tried to solve the problems with Windows Gaming, Steam sort of addresses the problems but introduce others.  Origin does nothing to resolve any of the issues.  Don't think anything else out there addresses the issues game developers have with the PC, which is why they have gone to consoles in droves.