PC gaming is, on balance, better than console gaming.

"When one mentions the Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64, almost everyone knows what you"re talking about. Why? Because the Ocarina of Time was the best game ever made. It came on a console, not a PC. And even though a PC can play it today, it was ultimately the console that brought it forth in its E-Rated glory. Ocarina of Time has had the most sales in the Zelda genre at 7.6 million, and has received a 99/100 on Metacritic, and 10/10 on IGN. It has been named a masterpiece and the greatest game of all time. I have yet to hear that honor given to World of Warcraft." Since OoT can be played on a PC, owning a console to play it is not better than owning a PC. Also, just because the game was made for consoles originally does not mean that the console itself is better. Since it can be emulated, this point is invalid. "Honestly, who wants to play on a little computer in a dimly lit room in an uncomfortable chair when you could be playing in front of a nice 60 inch plasma screen TV in a nice comfy chair?" You could use an HDMI cable and a wired 360 controller to play PC games on a TV. "I"m going to leave this one up to the voters but personally I would rather be holding my nice fat X-Box controller than playing on a keyboard and a mouse." Again, you can plug in any number of peripherals that you want on a PC. "When I first bought The Battle for Middle Earth2 back in 2008, I may have been the most excited person on the face of the earth. Turns out I needed to upgrade my graphics card, so I said "Fine." Did that, started up the game played for like an hour and then my computer just straight up crashes. Did some research and found out my computer couldn"t stay cool enough to play while crashing. A year later I bought a $3,000 XPS laptop to try and play the game again. It worked for a month before freezing up. Here is an example of the same type of situation, except with an X-Box 360. Bought Halo 3, I was giddy as a school girl, and just enjoyed it. No crashes, no failures, just straight up fun. There is no getting around it, PCs aren"t better until you"ve paid $3,000 plus dollars for them, and then spend 5 hours on the Microsoft help page trying to figure out what the problem is, and there is always a problem." The question here is is the greater control you have over a PC worth the trouble that can bring? I say yes. Also, consoles can be afflicted by any number of problems. For example, two of my XBox 360's got an error related to overheating and died. "The graphics are better on the PC, but wait until the PS4 and X-Box 720 come out." The power of a 400 dollar machine can't possibly match that of a 2000 dollar gaming rig. Sure, they'll help close the gap, but they won't be able to surpass PC's. Also, since PC's are constantly updated, the gap will have a lot of time to widen. After all, look at the current console generation: it's been going on for about eight years! "Nintendo just destroys the PC on everything, and the great part is, the GRAPHICS DON"T MATTER!!! The Wii has the most sales of any console ever, and its graphics don"t even compare to the PC. This is because one, its family friendly, and two, the PC doesn"t have Wii bowling." PC's have family friendly games as well. I concede your last point, as PC's do not in fact have Wii Bowling.