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I am talking about those stores too...Yes I agree that some EB stores have completely shelved computer games in favor of Video games...but thats the company's choice. Its more of a response to THEIR customers rather than the market forces. But PC games are the dominant market in the gaming industry.

But PC games are the dominant market in the gaming industry.

You're wrong. Over 80% of the games market is the console market. It's sheer numbers. Mom & Pop buy 'em for the family room and keep the kids off their computer and they don't have to constantly upgrade. The finest game performance is on the PC's but you have to spend a lot of money to get the equipment to run Quake at 100fps at 1600x1200. That's a very limited market. Take a look at most of these games on, say, Xbox and high-end PC. What's striking is that with about 5x as much computational and graphics power, the PC only looks and plays somewhat better. And quite often, the PC versions aren't adequately tested and tuned for real playing satisfaction. Very few PC games ever reach maturity in the way that the console games do where the titles are tested to exhaustion. Why? Because the console market makes or breaks a big production game.

It's a console world. Whether you like it or not. Simple economics. To play high-end games, you have to spend at least $1000 p/year on hardware plus buy games. Make that $1500 a year for anything close to state of the art. Most game sites that recommend deluxe gaming systems are still pricing top of the line gaming systems at $2500-$3000. Assume you can keep your monitor for two years and you can knock the price below $2000. That's pretty steep money for gaming. And a very limited market.