I'm a long time gamer who's begun to put together proposals for a master's thesis and one of the topics I'm considering is a study of the delivery methods of electronic entertainment content.

I read Blues News daily and can't think of a more knowledgable bunch of folks to pose a few questions to as a way of focusing my research topic. So -- here goes:

Do you think that PC gaming will exist in 5 years? For that matter will the home PC exist then or will we all have some variation of the X-Box that we'll use to check our e-mail, surf the web and pay bills on? Does playing a game on the PC offer any added benefits that can't be fullfilled by a console experience?

Any thoughts you could offer would be greatly appreciated