Originally Posted by doctor_kaz
PC gaming thrived through numerous generations of consoles before this one.

"Jein", as we say in German (it's a mixture between "Ja" and "Nein",effectuively meaning a miuxture between "Yes" and "No").

At the same time as numerous consoles were marching past the PCs, numerousd PC operating systems actually did the same. And with the operating systems the ways of programming games changed.
Without emulators, you often can't run DOS games nowadays anymore on PCs … and they are still PCs, although their hardware has evolved, too …