Not leaving, expanding. They haven't stopped releasing games on PC and why would they? An easy port for an extra million sales.

"Speaking at the Games Convention Developer’s Conference in Leipzig, PCGA president Randy Stude announced that PC gaming was a $10.7 billion industry during the year of 2007,"[...]"“By pioneering new business models, the PC has quietly remained the single leading platform for games, not only in terms of consumer usage, but revenue generation,” said David Cole, an analyst with DFC Intelligence."

"A new report from the PC Gaming Alliance into the state of the platform in 2008 has revealed that the "largest single platform for games" took around USD 11 billion over the course of the 12 months."

""The biggest story in PC games is the expansion beyond retail," said Randy Stude, president of PCGA. "PC games have successfully pioneered online subscription and distribution models that have resulted in a global boom that shows no signs of slowing. Despite the advances of the likes of Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, the online platform that remains the most accessible and robust worldwide is the PC.""

And across all Consoles "Console market revenue growth will hit a high of $12.8 billion in 2007 and in 2008 U.S"

"VentureBeat reports the figures, which show online gaming posting a 22 percent year-over-year boost in players from May 2008 to May 2009. Coincidentally, the number fits with a 23 percent slide in console game revenues (attributed to NPD), and the 20 percent reduction in console game sales some analysts expect for the second quarter of this year."

but there is less work needed to the online structure, which means less work hours for developers which means it cuts costs quite a bit. Plus development costs and distribution costs are two different things so yes Steamworks is free and cuts development time and cost.

I pretty much do the same thing (though If I decide to get it, I'm going to buy the 360 version of MW2. Since I know more people with the 360 version). Not to mention that when there is no demo available, how the hell are you supposed to expect people to fork over $50+ for a game that might not even work on your PC? I'm a laptop user. I don't use a desktop anymore. And just because my laptop meets minimum requirements doesn't mean the game is going to run well. I've played a number of games (on my old desktop) where I met the minimum reqs but it ran so so badly to the point of being unplayable. And in cases where I met the recommended specs, sometimes the games can be very crash-prone because it might not be very compatible with my graphics card for eg. (that's one of the downsides of programming for an open platform. Results may very depending on the type of hardware you have. Meeting recommended specs doesn't mean it'll run without hitches) So it's good to have a demo or a cracked copy to test it out. These are the reasons (troubleshooting, stupid spec requirement guidelines, etc.) why I am frustrated with PC gaming and mostly console game now.

True, but console worldwide revenue was around $24.9 billion versus PC worldwide revenue of $10.7 billion in 2007. Impressive numbers for PC, but not enough to overlap all consoles combined as shio claimed.

I ain't denying there is some stuff working on the pc, the issue is that it's not the big console franchises. Revenue from those is declining...

Vgchartz truly is black and white, isn't it.

It has been known for a long time that 1 million pirated copies does not equal 1 million loss in sales. Also PC gamer who have jobs are less likely to pirate games than those who doesn't. Americans pirate less than countries like China.
The whole reason piracy is making such of a huge fuss now is with the internet you can count the numbers of downloads as well the high cost of games. When it comes to the cost of developing games you still have to rely on those gamers who are willing to pay full price.

 So while there are always those who will  pirate games yet there are more people buying games more than ever. Just look at the MW2 first day sales , that's higher than most games totals.

I don't know where they got that number from, but that $24.9 billion is either wrong or it's not just from console software sales.

In 2007, console games retail revenue in US was only $6.64 billion. Where did the other 18.26 billion come from?! Are you telling me that US was less than 27% of worldwide console games sales in 2007?!

Yikes... I'd reserve comments like that for rapists, perhaps, or murderers.

If we thought anybody who even downloaded one illegal song as a filthy sub-human, what a wonderful world this would be.

I like what mummelmann said just a few posts back (whether or not he had meant it in this context): "Vgchartz truly is black and white, isn't it?"