PC is an open platform, so nothing can force it to die, unlike a closed console system.
Also I'm more than happy to play multiplatform games, most of which turn out to be superior on PC, and available to purchase at the click of a button and ready to play in a few hours.
I will say one thing, Steam did save the PC gaming market from being any more fragmented and dissolved than it already was, and now, more than ever, we have an incredibly strong and unified service bringing everything together. Some people may disagree that a unified service is a good thing, but at least on PC, they have a CHOICE not to use it. The entire platform is driven by choice, the most important value in the gaming industry.
In my point of view, PC is stronger than ever, because of such services, and because hardware costs are at an all-time low, mixed with the fact that most games are, again, multiplatform, thus sticking to a certain threshold of specification requirements that the PC, in this console generation, has surpassed since 2006/07.
I could still be running all these new games just fine on my 2007 setup which consisted of a quad core, 4GB of ram and an 8800GTX. But I'm also a 3D artist so I need double to triple the hardware capability.
Also, Pacter is a dumb moron, who spews out bullshit every episode he gets. I find it funny he acts like such a baby every time he says something risky, he's like "ok yeah you flamers are probably goign to blahblahblah" and then he goes on to flame away every chance he gets (mostly at pc gamers). Go watch that marvelous episode where he "answers" a question about RTS games by bringing up all the downsides of Turn-Based strategy games.
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