Given the signs of a shrinking PC gaming market here in the states, it's especially worth noting the very different attitude that Eastern gamers have towards non-console gaming. As explored in a number of articles here on Massively in the past, gaming in Asia often has the same sense of sociability that a night at the bowling alley does in the West. Among the youth of South Korea, China, and other nearby cultures PC gaming is not only fun and a social activity, but actually seen as pretty cool. Given the exploding youth populations of those nations, this stratospheric rise in online gaming will probably continue for some time to come.
