>>11877487You weren't born yet. That, or you didn't have a PC and you are an ignorant retard who has to cope because you missed out on the best era of gaming.
>dozens of blockbusters from the 90s to the 2000s selling millions of copies, often exceeding top selling console games (e.g. HL1 that sold 9m copies at retail compared to Goldeneye's 7m)>a sea of smaller, random games selling a few hundred thousand or million each>shareware and demos being huge, with DOOM have an estimated 20m people having played it by fucking 1995, let alone the 2000s>Diablo 2, Brood War and WC3 alone sell a combined 30-odd million copies by the mid 2000s with an untold number of pirated copies>10m people paying $14.99 monthly to play WoW in 2006>dozens of other MMOs like Ragnarok Online, Maple Story or Runescape with millions of monthly players200 million PCs were shipped in 2005 alone -- not counting what already existed. More PCs were being purchased in the span of 2-3 years than the total sales of every 5th gen and 6th gen console combined. Your cope will no doubt be to say "they were just being used for business, not games", and yet the sales of the aforementioned games don't line up with that, nor do the sale of nearly gaming-exclusive hardware components like GPUs of which 20m were shipped in 2005 alone. There were a vastly larger number of people playing PC games than console games, and it had been that way since the late 90s.