PC gaming: Becoming a player?

PC game sales in the U.S. peaked at $2 billion in 1999, and then fell every year after that, landing at $1.1 billion last year.
Console game sales, on the other hand, were already twice the size of PC game sales in 1999, and have increased every year since, reaching $6.2 billion in 2004.
But several major companies – including Microsoft Corp. and Texas-based heavyweights like GameStop Corp. and Dell Inc. – are trying to revitalize PC gaming.
"The shelf space has been shrinking," said Chris Donahue, director for the Windows gaming and graphics team at Microsoft. "We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix."

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Matts View: I have been playing PC games for several years. I have yet to see a game consol such as game cube, PS2, and xbox even compare to the pc games made this day in age, but however when you stick a very fast hard drive into a game console it basically is considered a computer in it self. I think Microsoft needs to watch themselves with the new xbox 360 coming out.