Originally Posted by
Knuckle Duster
A decline in Japan, and a rise in the west with the console content moving way up in quality, effectively mixing with the PC market.
Of course not, but there's just as many coming out as there were back then. You just commit yourself to a narrow point of view to enforce your own bias.
Western developers are currently the ones putting out the excellent sandbox, stealth, sports, action, platformer, puzzle, strategy, racing and RPG genres across all platforms, PC included.
Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age, Sins of a Solar Empire, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout, Borderlands, Elder scrolls, Gears of War, Fable, Forza, PGR, Splinter Cell, God of War, Sly Cooper, Portal 2, Puzzle Quest, Might & Magic Clash of Heroes, Shadow Complex, The Witcher, Fez, Super Meat Boy, Braid, World of Goo, Call of Duty, Torchlight, Bastion, Batman AA, Prince of Persia, Limbo, etc.
Tons of awesome games. No less than there were before. Sure, go ahead and hate on the call of duty/gears of wars/halos for having a dozen sequels. Pick any single one of them and it's awesome, the same can be said for any Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy.