I liked the article but I don't agree with everything the author claims.
I believe that for some "changes" (some good, some bad, as always) to occur we just need a new generation of consoles. I'm not saying that it will "save" gaming (in general, I'm not only referring to PC gaming here), but that at least new hardware will alleviate possibilities for games on the PC at the same time, while revitalizing the consoles market. Instead Microsoft wants to squeeze more years of service with the 360, also more recently doing so with Kinect, while Sony aims the handheld market again with Vita. At least Nintendo took the risk at making a new console, the "problem" I have with Nintendo however is that they just keep spitting out their known franchises over and over again, I'd like to see a new Nintendo-made, preferably Miyamoto-made IP that would debut with the Wii U, to "justify" its entry to the market a bit more, although I still welcome a new console, after all those years.
And for the PC games more specifically, well... I'm not sure really, there's many possibilities. Are there too many console ports? Are console ports *the* problem? What about DRM? Also, piracy? Retail VS Digital? Pre-Owned Retail issues? Lack of "creativity" and/or lack of PC-exclusives à la Witcher 2 and Crysis 1? I'm not sure, there's many factors at play on the PC market. Not to mention the technology growth versus the games available to "properly" exploit that technology (PC exclusives only could do that, not console ports over and over again). If more than 80% of PC games released in the past five years happen to be console ports, then what's the goal? Buy a console and call it a night? Or stick with the ports on the PC in hope that you'll be able to play mods for them because it's the "PC version", only to realize that there's no tools or the important files have been hard-coded/locked away from tempering them?
Certainly, overall, video gaming is going through troubled times, I just can't put one finger on a single cause, because there's just a bunch of them working in tandem to screw things up. All the way "down" at the bottom of the pyramid coming from the gamers/consumers who seemingly have no brains and in mass buy sequels that don't make sense one after the other, to all the way up at the top of it coming from chairmen in their 40's and 50's, most of which have never touched a video game controller and only care about business. Even the consoles don't distinguish themselves from one another that much anymore, since most games are multi-platform. So basically you just buy the less expensive of the bunch and you'll still get to play Call of Duty anyway, only on a Nintendo console could we find Link, Mario, Samus, Fox or Donkey Kong... but those have been played and known to death (hence why I wish a new Nintendo IP, or two, could come out).
Meh, I usually just prefer not to think about any of that and let things happen as the days pass. In the meantime I still enjoy my older consoles and the games I occasionally play from them, along with buying stuff from Steam and GoG. I'm doing my "humble part", but it's occurring unnoticed. I mean I can restrain myself (and I did) from buying recent games, most of which are just sequels, to send a "message" to the developers, but of course I have no way to measure my decisions and actions when doing so, there seems to be no impact because gamers like me are part of a minority. What can we do "against" the mass of teenagers buying CoDs after CoDs, or Modern Warfares after Modern Warfares, or NHLs after NHLs, or Halos after Halos... there's nothing we can do, it's like trying to stop a horde of zombies offering their wallets without thinking, the developers and publishers can't exactly turn their back at that, of course they'll take the money and they'll go fishing where the fishes bite.