Well-I was a big console gamer, but then I just got tired of forking over 50.00 for a copy of a game I wanted (I remember I bought Republic commando and Lego Star Wars when they came out at the same time for 90.00---thats alllooootttt of dough for a 12 year old to be forking over (it was all christmas money) just for the system to become obsolete after a few years-With the computer (which I have invariably switched to, my brother plays the ps2, I play it seldomly) I can play games form 10 years ago with no problem, I can also play all my ps1 games, with a system emulator (Metal Gear Solid, looks better than it does with the Ps1) after some trial and error with the video plugins------I can also surf the web, etc. on the computer-I have tried (under a small budget ;P) to try to emulate the console experince on my PC, with the use of controllers, joysticks, arcade games also are great (I play Metal Slug X from time to time with the full aircraft joystick---thats pretty sick!) with the PC too. Well, I guess it is'nt dieing, but its still competeing with the more user-home friendly consoles (plug-and-play as I would call them) and with the launch of Vista (which is very intresting----You cannot upgrade to DirectX 10 without it-which has pissed alot of people off----) it is supposed to be more and more like a console experince (no more installing--just put the disk in and your there)
Only time will tell---