How PC Gaming Ended Up on Your Couch

I'd like to feature this excellent 1Up article for you. It's basically the evolution of gaming since the 90s and how consoles became more like PC's. But that's not all - no one else than Bioshock dev legend Ken Levine shares his two cents. A few quotes and for the rest you better check the full article out!

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No serious gamer of that era would've guessed that the end of PC primacy was just around the corner. But in 2001, the old gray box met an unexpected contender, an upstart game console produced by a software company. Microsoft's Xbox, for all intents and purposes, was a PC. It had a hard drive, offered broadband online gaming, and packed in technology that approached the PC standard of the day.
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When the Xbox brought PC features into the living room, some of the best PC game developers in the world eventually came along for the console-gaming ride. Their ranks read like a who's who in modern gaming of both developers and designers: Infinity Ward (Call of Duty), Epic (Gears of War), Bethesda (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3), Peter Molyneux (Fable), Bungie (Halo), Ken Levine (BioShock), and on and on. "If you look at who are the big-ticket console developers right now," says BioShock creator Levine of 2K Boston, "they're all people who cut their teeth in the PC space." These folks didn't come over to the console to make Mario knockoffs. They came to make the kinds of games they made-and still make-on the PC.
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Of course, some of the adult direction in modern gaming can be attributed to the rise of studios in North America and Europe that, besides appreciating the average age of today's gamer, set out to create subject matter targeted at Western audiences. Japanese games have entertained American audiences for years, and they still do, but they don't always speak to the sensibilities of the masses. Levine puts it a little more directly: "I was playing the fabulous Fallout 3 over the weekend, and I was way more interested in that than being some little 14-year-old boy wandering around in my cosplay outfit."