Quote Originally Posted by Tupsi View Post
All in all, I think the biggest irony is gaming industry would have went kaput if it wasn't for console gaming overall - Arcades would have stayed around but PC gaming wouldn't have really evolved past Wolfenstein, Doom and Educational programs. So while there was a crash, it was a revived thanks to the newer generation of consoles and games on said consoles.
You do realize that PC gaming is still widely popular in Asian countries and still growing even when the decline of PC gaming in the West. Your logic is pretty much "if Edison didn't invent the lightbulb we would still be using candles". Guess what? That's not true, someone else would've invented it. The same goes with everything really. Progress would happen one way or another and the gaming industry would've still evolved with or without consoles.