It always feels like sequels are dominating original titles because they are. Companies like to stick with what works, and gamers generally respond to "what works."
MMO's are another beast entirely, a 4 year lifespan on an MMO is short. It takes massive amounts of resources and development to fuel an MMO thus you don't see a myriad of new titles (save expansions) because of the cost barrier. The one exception to this is NCSoft but they make fisher price type MMO's not "real" industry busting ones.
PC Gaming has, unfortunately, been on the out for a very long time. This trend has picked up speed in recent years with the more widespread use of multiplayer gaming on consoles. I've still yet to find a console game that has held my interest for several years on end like previous PC games have. However that may be in part because I prefer PC games or as I've gotten older I have a more difficult time justifying time spent on video games.
The only real good original games I can think of that have been released in the last 12 months (I'm not going by fiscal year) would be Mass Effect and Bioshock (both of which have sequels slated).
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