I didn't downvote (I rarely do for anything that isn't shit-talking) but if your only goal is to play video games at a reasonably high level of quality, then ye

I didn't downvote (I rarely do for anything that isn't shit-talking) but if your only goal is to play video games at a reasonably high level of quality, then yes, I think a games console is always going to be less expensive. I mainly stopped buying consoles because I already need a fairly powerful computer for a lot of other productive and entertainment uses, so for me, the price difference between the computer I "need" and the computer that also plays games really well is mostly the price difference between a decent GPU and a nicer GPU. If you already have all the computer you need for other tasks and it's cheaper to buy an Xbox or Playstation than it is to make the computer more capable of playing games, then it makes more sense to buy a game console.