2008 totals have this week been unleashed by monitors stateside, and while the statistics make good reading for - the platform endured a 12 months to forget... maybe.

According to NPD's data, PC game sales dropped 14% during the year, and for traditional retailers like Gamestop, and EB this would have been keenly felt, but as NPD point out, this isn't the full story.

NPD's numbers don't account for game sales through services like Steam, the Store, or Direct2Drive, and given the rapid surge in the popularity of these sales platforms, it is plausible that the PC platform isn't dying in the manner some have suggested.

Sales of games through have rocketed in the last year particularly, and while the impact of can't be discounted, a 14% fall certainly isn't indicative of the real situation, even if the format does have something of an image problem, especially in the eyes of some publishers.

What are your thoughts on the PC as a games machine?

By Luke Guttridge

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