PC gaming IS dying. Any PC game made today will eventually not sell and barely anyone will ever play them anymore! They will be completely replaced with something different!

They will be replaced by newer, more interesting lines of PC games produced with new tools and ideas, and most likely take advantage of better hardware that will allow things that couldn't be done before.

Along with newer console and mobile games, and players will shift between them as various things strike their fancy.

This is eminently disproved with the existence and success of sites like GOG.com. Games are not replaced. They are displaced by newer titles, but many gamers eventually come back to revisit the games they love. Nostalgia works in favor of the PC. That and emulators...

PC gaming IS dying. Any PC game made today will eventually not sell and barely anyone will ever play them anymore! They will be completely replaced with something different!

They will be replaced by newer, more interesting lines of PC games produced with new tools and ideas, and most likely take advantage of better hardware that will allow things that couldn't be done before.

Along with newer console and mobile games, and players will shift between them as various things strike their fancy.

This is eminently disproved with the existence and success of sites like GOG.com. Games are not replaced. They are displaced by newer titles, but many gamers eventually come back to revisit the games they love. Nostalgia works in favor of the PC. That and emulators...

GOG sales is a rather minor exception. All the games that are selling reasonably well on sites like GOG represent some of the best and more unique games in history, and aren't really representative of most games in the general case. The power and driving force of the PC market will still always be the newer titles running on new hardware and doing something at least a little different than previous generations.

You don't see old games as the major revenue drive for developers.

PC gaming is doing great at the moment, as some people already provided stats for. It's mostly related to Steam and similar outlets.

Long term there might be a shift to mobile devices if kids growing up don't get to use PCs.

Really long term there might be no difference between PC and a mobile device...

IIRC, PC games sales have been increasing non-stop for more than 10 years.

The only difference is that instead of a 200% rise, you get 50% rise in sales (which is a given since there are only so much gaming systems you can sell). Its not that PC gaming is "dying" its just that companies have very unreasonable expectations IMO.

I'd go even as far as to say that this "PC game dying" thing has been going on so we would buy more consoles, since publishers have way much more control in those lands.

Hell, there are many who put the "PC game dying" thing right next to "Next year will be the year of Linux gaming". And if we're getting Steam OS, chances are that PC gaming is definitively not dying.

The numbers of both games for PCs and computers continues to rise and will for a long time to come.

All the advantages of PCs stand, especially portable laptops that you can move around the house, take to the park, bring to a friend's house, etc..

Saying that PCs are dying is like saying that trucks are dying: Just aint gonna happin.

The same is true for PC games, since the total number of PC owners climbs by the millions every year despite consoles and other hardware devices.

Strange it is how people view cyclical trends as dying.

P.S. Laptop PCs are for adults and consoles are for kids. Once the kids become mature, they realize the many advantages of PCs, plus they can afford PCs as an adult instead of depending on mommy to buy a console for them.

I think the only thing that has been dying in PC sales is sales in the brick and mortar stores. I can't remember the last time I bought a PC game in a box from a store. Steam, GOG, Origin (*shutter*), Impulse, etc have proven that PC gaming is going strong and from the looks of things is continuing to go strong.

Things like Kickstarter are showing that indie development is also strong and even long time developers are looking to community funded games, instead of publisher funded games.

I think the line between consoles and PCs will become more and more blurred, but the pc will remain the pc.

GOG sales is a rather minor exception. All the games that are selling reasonably well on sites like GOG represent some of the best and more unique games in history, and aren't really representative of most games in the general case. The power and driving force of the PC market will still always be the newer titles running on new hardware and doing something at least a little different than previous generations.

You are right. GOG's products are representative of the best ever made. Isn't that what we want from our games, though?

There's too much crap and copycat trash being made (throughout history, not just today) that will be readily forgotten in 5 years or less.

The good stuff will remain. At least for titles released on PC they will...