Strictly speaking, I have never been a gamer, although I enjoyed in the past playing games, either alone or with friends; back then the hardware was the C64 and

Strictly speaking, I have never been a gamer, although I enjoyed in the past playing games, either alone or with friends; back then the hardware was the C64 and later the Amiga. I still have memories of epic tournaments, one of which brought me and a friend to an actual physical fight:^) After growing up a bit, and as a formerly avid SF reader, I started enjoying immersive games with actual plots. I liked a lot Half Life 2, although it didn't really have a fully developed plot, and later fell in love with the Mass Effect series, which to me is a kick ass TV series waiting to happen. I have considered multiple times getting a console, but always chose the PC. Actually I still have my old Wii which I use from time to time to do some exercising at home, but for serious gaming, today I'd get a PC. My current machine is too old for anything serious, so I'm planning to get soon an upgrade with a Ryzen G series CPU which would work for light games. The choice IMO depends on what the user might do (or plan to do in the future) with the device. A console is a much simpler device one can turn on and start playing in seconds, while a PC is more time consuming (installs, load times, fiddling with drivers or other issues, etc.) but is also on a whole different league wrt features and use cases. I left out small devices like tablets and portable consoles because to me they're too limited, and also I can't feel immersed in a game if it occupies just a small screen, but since you mention them, I would suggest a look at the Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/ https://www.steamdeck.com/en/