Timpsi - excuse me but I worked in the games industry from the late 80's to the mid/late 90's and saw lots of trade magazines and retailer numbers, etc. The PC gamer in the early 90's did indeed buy a dozen titles a year. Actually, it was 13 a year in 1994. This was based on much more honest polling that we get today in the console era. Last poll I saw in Computer Trade Weekly in 2006 was that the average PC gamer was now buying 5 titles a year. Two years later and I think we are at 4 per year rather than 6, based on retail sales of titles like Bioshock, STALKER, Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer 3, etc.
There plenty of numbers out there that give clues. One is that the average hit title on xbox sold about 8 copies for every sales of the PC version. Today, Bioshock on 360 sold 16 copies for every PC copy sold. This is as much about the 50% decline in PC game sales in the last 4-5 years as it is about the 360, because the 360 is not doing fantastically better than the xbox in the same time period. In fact, I believe it is doing worse.
This all proves that PC gaming is doing worse than 5 years ago and that the peak in PC sales was in 1995 with a slow decline since, with a little bump around 2000-2001 with a faster decline since then.
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