Yes, the recent generation of consoles is already starting (starting? probably already there) to get old even with the mainstream audience, but I'm wondering if the PC games industry is already on it's rise back to power.
I don't buy indie games on consoles. It doesn't seem a particularly good place for them (Since MS wouldn't let Valve release free updates for TF2, I don't expect free updates for indie games either on consoles, so...). That said, for mainstream games, I find that for more and more new games I'm turning to the 360 instead of the PC simply because of copy protection, punkbuster (in BF3 for instance), and DirectX 10/11 requirements. With 360 games you don't have to deal with "oh it's going to leave some shit running in the background all the time and it may eventually sabotage my dvd drives," or with expensive windows upgrades that break existing programs, or with having punkbuster on your computer, breaking things.
Is that strange and/or ironic? I'm buying things for consoles
because there's less intrusive copy protection on games made for them.
About what I said about dvd drives: I don't trust them because all the CD and DVD drives that I have or have had in the past 5 years or so will not open if there is no CD or DVD in the drive, for instance, and I've talked to several people who have had the same problem. I even replaced a drive that it happened to with a new drive of a completely different model and company, and it began happening to that one too within a few months (the only solution, if it becomes empty, is to use a paperclip in the emergency eject hole, or to press the eject button about a hundred times until it miraculously works by sheer blind luck). Then I installed that new drive in a new computer and it
still happens to it. (It isn't a windows problem either - happens on the BIOS screen, in linux, etc). So I've basically decided not to allow things like securom, starforce, etc, on my computer. Steam is just about the only copy protection I allow, or basic cd checks that don't install drivers or anything, and even those I'm wary of because I still don't know what must have apparently screwed up the drive's eject mechanism so that it only works properly if there's a disc in the drive (if it was a glitch in the computer, or the installed OS, then moving it into a new computer and installing a fresh copy of XP would have eliminated the problem, but it did not).