Flip the coin and head over to a monitor and you're losing several things as well. The PC wins here. This is something that, up until recently PC q0wned consoles. Online voice chat is also something that is essential to team play in most of the modern first person shooters. Although typing text messages is fine and for those of you who use short form, hacker talk for everything you can even think you're cool doing it.
Communication is key in our society.
It's a sickness that plagues that PC and something that the console has been able to overcome. The reason the PC is so damn unstable is because there are so many different developers, manufacturers, drivers, updates, patches, etc. etc. Taking all of this into account is the painstaking job of the dev. However for the consoles, there are no variations in the hardware requirements. This is what makes the consoles so stable - when the dev.