>other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it That is literally the reason for the tech inclined, and it's not artificial. The pol

>other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it That is literally the reason for the tech inclined, and it's not artificial. The politics behind it don't matter; if I want to play X and I can only play it on console Y, guess what I'm going to buy? Other than that, consoles are still cheaper than building a comparable gaming rig. Not by a huge margin, but still cheaper, and people already ha e nice TVs to play on (so don't ignore the cost of a monitor.) Beyond price, the fact is that building a rig is harder than plugging in a console. I know it's not _hard_, but most people just don't want to deal with it.