At the risk of entering into a hot topic that people don't usually agree with me on or think I'm biased about, I want to point out right here that I think the Xbox is to blame for a lot of the decline of PC gaming. Its introduction has clearly robbed a lot of the resources that used to be dedicated to making PC entertainment. This is fine if you're willing to buy an Xbox and support Microsoft directly that way. It's not fine if you're a PC gamer that wants what the PC can offer specifically and not some watered down version of what you've come to expect from a company. If we take a look at the developers that used to be PC-centric and now look at where their resources are going, very few are still working on the PC as their first choice of platform. Those that have remained stalwart PC games makers are very few and far between and often wouldn't have the resources to do a console game even if they wanted to. The Xbox is a major contributor to where we are now with PC games. The game styles on Xbox compared to PCs are too similar and the first-person action crowd has largely begun migration now that Xbox Live is there to serve them