Narakir: Here on the french speaking part it's exactly the opposite... It's has always been hard to find fellow PC gamers over the years and now if I may cross one there's a 90% chance they only play any MMO. On the shelves consoles games are the majority, and PC is slowly decreasing as time pass. However I actually lacks numbers to make a fully correct statement.
I don't see a tendency of big retailers shrinking PC game shelf space in the German-speaking region, but that's probably partly due to most smaller stores who sold games having disappeared - people who want to buy PC games in stores simply don't have a choice anymore.
There was a number of small stores called "PC Joy" who were focused exclusively on PC and Mac titles, very neatly sorted, down to obscure stuff or classics, and with competent guys who actually knew more games than just last year's top 5. They were bought up by EB Games and the stores remained, but they survived about 2-3 months and then they closed them all down. There was a nice store called Alcom that was huge, and partly specialised in rarities, imports, and games for old consoles. I hear this operation was basically run by one guy though, and since he left, they stopped doing that and by that lost their uniqueness. Big electronics retailers (MediaMarkt, MElectronics, ...) probably were able to keep their selections large because the specialised competition disappeared.
Edit: This was
the shit!
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3226/pcjoyluzern.jpg I remember gloating at a display window that was full of Duke Nukem 3D merchandise and boxes... but I couldn't buy it because I was only 12 =)