With console gaming increasing in popularity every year, the PC gaming market is seen as either a declining or stagnant market. MSNBC took glance at the perils of PC gaming and at some of the initiatives being taken to streamline the entire process for consumers.

"We get it, we live it ourselves," said Dean Lester, general manager for Microsoft's in-house Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies Group. "If we could streamline the experience of playing games on Windows we really could get more people playing." ... Updates like an easy method to locate and install PC game fixes and patches; an improved architecture -- in "Longhorn" -- that shields gamers from having to worry about display drivers; the ability to use Xbox controllers with PC games; and game console-style easy installation where game files are placed in one games folder and not scattered throughout the operating system.