I think that this new "nintendo" generation is very very loud and that was/is the main reason why some companyes made huge mistake and marked PC gaming dead; or start with terrible console ports (where you can resign the basic keybinding or moronic checkpoints that are complitely OUT of PC games, because people who play on PC have a tons of space for save not like some tiny memory card on some console)...

There are a LOT of things which killed PC gaming in a very core way, and than blaming the pirates or whoever else, just to drow atention from this miserable ports...
But after all, during this long years I can say PC gaming is NOT dead and it will never be. I hear this storyes since 1995 and as wonder hardcore games ARE PC games and PC gamers are still here.

Maybe majority here will not agree with me and I can understand that, but tell me one good title for consoles still life after 2-3 years, and I'll tell you 10 for every one of them wich you can find still people playing on PC.
# 1 - Quake
# add the rest :-)