True, but the success of console ports are also the cause of a lot of good.
Many companies would be bankrupt by now if they had to rely solely on the sales on PC, since that's where software piracy is at its worst. So the artists actually get the cash they deserve thanks to consoles, more than they would otherwise at least. Second, it pays not to forget some obvious contributions console games have made to the PC RPG genre. For one, purely PC RPG's have always been very rare. It wasn't until the same RPG's were being made for both PC and consoles that we started to get a lot more quality games. In addition to that, the traditional PC RPG's where always made with low-budget and sub-par graphics & soundtrack. Console exports greatly upped the bar on those. And for my part, I can also say that I never liked the old-school "non-linear, no scripted events and no NPC relationships" style. Even Fallout was too much there. Compared to how deeply developed the characters in games such as Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears etc were and their extremely involving plots with multiple twists, the PC RPG's certainly had a lot of room for improvement.
Consider the relatively recent games such as BG2 (which was heavily influenced by the aforementioned features normally found in console ports, while also retaining the typical PC non-linearity), KOTOR 1 & 2 and Jade Empire for example... they are real masterpieces, and precisely *because* they were made neither PC's nor consoles, but for both.
Sure, console games tend to be dumbed down from their PC variants, but it's definitely not all bad. In the best cases, the games can manage to get the best parts of both sides.. and that really amounts to something spectacular.
